I got my third check from Amazon.com last night. I'm a member of their Associates program, and last quarter I netted a whopping $44.45 from it. It's not a bad way to make a little extra cash from your website, while still providing some useful and interesting content.
I saw in this story over at News.com that Excite@Home has asked Pacific Bell to yank their ads claiming that cable modem users are "web hogs" and that their DSL technology is better because it isn't "shared". I know that this is a pretty hot topic as broadband becomes available to more and more people, but honestly, how much difference is there? I've got a cable modem at home, and I've never experienced it running slow, in fact, it's faster than our campus Internet connection here at UNI. Any thoughts?
Since this morning's implementation of the news item feature in Manila, I've switched my site over to this method of posting stuff. So far, I like it, but it's a little less personal, which I don't know if I like yet. Anyhow, it also supports the use of departments and icons for those departments. Since I'm not a graphic artist, and Slashdot has so many cool icons, I e-mailed Rob Malda and asked if I could rip him off. To my delight he replied thusly:
As long as you credit what ya steal, I don't care.
I saw over at Activewin.com that Creative Labs has released a bunch of new drivers today, here's the list:
Graphics Blaster RIVA TNT, 3D Blaster RIVA TNT2 3D Blaster RIVA TNT2 Ultra Graphics Blaster RIVA TNT2 Value (32Mb) 3D Blaster GeForce/3D Blaster GeForce Pro for Windows 2000
Sound Blaster Live! for Windows 95/98 and NT
Now if they'd just hurry up and release the Windows 2000 drivers for my Webcam II!
Okay, so I'm doing a little bit of self-congratulation here, but John VanDyk pointed out to me that I'd gotten mentioned over on Scripting News. Wow, mentioned on Scripting News, and an e-mail from Rob Malda in the same day, I'll never expunge my inbox again...
