ShowMeBlog

Back playing with TypePad

  I been playing with WordPress for the last few years.  But I decided to come back and turn on this TypePad blog site.
  I am going to look around and see what TypePad has changed in the last few years.

  

Thank you - but we have moved

 I want to thank you for visiting ShowMeBlog.  

But my blog has moved to  Howard's Notebook

The URL is:      www.hnbvideo.com

  Here on our old site you will find many years of blog posts.  All the ones back to December of 2008 have been moved to Howard's Notebook.
  If you are looking for a blog post before that date you may find it here.  We have blog posts here all the way back to 2003.

  We been blogging since 1982!

   Howard's Notebook is one of the first online sites and one of the oldest.

   So PLEASE check us out over at  www.hnbvideo.com
 

  Thank you very much,

 

Jim Howard 

 

 

 

Big change

  ShowMeBlog has been hosted by TypePad since 2003.  It has been a good run but I think it is time for a change.
  I am going to start forwarding the domain: 

ShowMeBlog.Com    to      http://www.1982bbs.com/

I will decide later on some decisions about what I will do with the ten years of data here on ShowMeBlog.  Do I want to transfer it over or just leave it here. 
There will be other decisions that I will have to make. 

  TypePad is an excellent service but Blogger is where I have Howard’s Notebook and the design is so much more easy there.
  As you know I been messing with the look of ShowMeBlog on TypePad for years and just never found a look that I loved.

  Giving up on ShowMeBlog/TypePad after ten yeas maybe a big error for me.  We will see what happens.

GMail is working for me

  Just a little bit after I posted the last entry about GMail not working it started working for me.

   

Using the new theme from TypePad

Update:  One line of type in the Custom CSS area and I changed the font.  I am using “Times New Roman” and I guess “serif.”
I like it.
  Any recommendations on fonts that you like?

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Wow.. that is bright.  I am now using the new theme from TypePad.  There is, of course, different color combinations.  What do you think of this one? 
  It gets my attention.  
  
It is 4:30 AM and this color gets my attention.
What I do not like is the font-style for this theme.
 
I will have to go into the CSS settings and see if I can change it because I can not live with this style of font.

  What do you think of the new theme for ShowMeBlog?

  [email protected] or leave a comment.

My Howard’s Notebook (YouTube) PlayList

Comments left here or on my YouTube videos

  Any comment left on ShowMeBlog will not show up until I review it and approve it.
I have had a site online since 1982.  I have always attempted to let everyone comment. 
  I have attempted to approve all comments.  

  But because of the recent events (like the Trayvon Martin shooting) I am going to have a new policy.  My new policy is:

   #1  If you post a comment IN ALL CAPS no matter what you say it will NOT BE APPROVED.
   #2  If you call for the death of anyone and it does not matter who it is the comment will not be   approved.
  #3   If I think your comment is racist and has no value then it will not be approved.

  Now… in case you wonder… Those rules do not apply to me.  I will not be posting anything in all caps but I may decide to call for the death of someone or I may post things that are racist.
  It is my blog, it my bandwidth and I get to do it.
  Start your own blog if you don’t like it.

  For ShowMeBlog a comment has to be approve first before it appears.
On YouTube I have decided to let people post a comment and it will appear and then later, if I have time, I will review and take action.  So you may see comments on YouTube that do not fit in the above rules.
  One of my videos recently got 900 comments in just a couple of days.  I just did not have time to edit all the comments.  After a few days I turned off all the comments so they did not even appear.  Then later that day I just went and just removed the entire video.

  I have very few problems with comments here on ShowMeBlog. 

Video Playlist From YouTube : At the top of ShowMeBlog

Most Valuable Blogger Awards 2011

  I see that ShowMeBlog is now listed by the CBS DFW on their site.  They have a list of “Most Valuable Blogger” sites. ShowMeBlog is under “Local Affairs” and there are eight sites.  I guess the sites are all the “Most Valuable Blogger Awards 2011.”   I won an award. I won an award! 

Google AdSense update

  Google AdSense did their update of accounts on the 7th of the month. 

  This last month I was having one hell of a month.  I was surprised and shocked.  I watched the earnings each day and for December I had estimated earnings of $157.57 for the month. With what was due for the past few months I was expecting to get about $240.00 this month.

  Then today when they updated my page I saw this message:

 

“A payment will not be issued this month. Your unpaid earnings prior to January 1, 2012 was calculated to be $96.27. Payments are issued within 30 days after the end of the month in which your unpaid earnings reach $100.00.”

 

  So I was thinking that they just failed to notice that $157.57 and that they would catch it at some point today and the earnings would correct.

  It did not happen.  So I went to their help files and did some digging and found the following:

“Estimated earnings, which are used in your reports, typically reflect close estimates of your recent account activity. These estimates are intended to give you a rough idea of your recent account activity as soon as possible, but do not necessarily reflect the amount you will be paid.

Finalized earnings, shown on your Payments pages, are accurate earnings amounts that include all revenue you will be paid for valid clicks. Once our records are processed and verified at the end of each month, finalized earnings are posted to your Payments page.

If you’re seeing a significant difference between your reporting estimates and your finalized earnings, it’s possible that your account has been receiving a high percentage of invalid clicks and/or impressions. If you believe this is the case, please visit our Help Center topic regarding invalid clicks for more information.”

 

So what they are saying is that the “estimated” amount of $157.57 was not correct due to invalid clicks and that the correct amount was $13.49 for the month.  That amount would be about what I have been getting for the last few months. 
So I suspect that there have been “invalid clicks.”
  I think I just did a blog post on ShowMeBlog or Howard’s Notebook about the people that were being kicked off of Google AdSense.  I seem to remember posting about it.  There are hundreds if not thousands of them.  Many of them post YouTube videos about it.
  So if I am getting invalid clicks I am surprised the I have not received a warning or that I have not been kicked out of the Google AdSense program.  Maybe I can expect an email one of these days.

  So Google AdSense is not working for me.  I was thinking that at last it was working for me.  I got about six blogs and I put advs on them and I did stuff like putting a big banner across the top and a small one at the very top right column.  I attempted to find tune everything and I was thinking at last I have found the correct way to make a few dollars but I was wrong.  All the work I did and I made zero improvement.