Asymptomatic

Check out April 1st’s Astronomy Picture of the Day. Silly Astronomers.

This cool gadget lets you set up to four criteria to select book reading recommendations.

Brady saw a pre-screening of the Serenity movie. Sweet.

Have you done a Google search on your first name lately to see where you turn up?

Of course, this only really works if you have a web site. Asymptomatic currently comes up as the number five listing for searches on “owen”, which is pretty good, I think.

Last month I made about $21 serving Google ads on RedAlt. Of course, Google won’t send you a check until you’ve made $100 from serving ads.

What would be nice is if I could pay for my hosting entirely by hosting. I was explaining this to Nana a while ago - someone who doesn’t know the ways of the blogging world - and she wondered why, if Asymptomatic garnered so many more hits than RedAlt, I didn’t put ads on Asymptomatic, too. I guess I just have this whole idea of “selling out” by trying to make money off of this site. It’s basically a site for my own pleasure. If people didn’t visit all the time, the ads wouldn’t make any money anyway, and I wonder how many people I will turn off by including the ads at all.