Just got a meetup notification saying WordPress’s 7th birthday is next week. Kind of amazing how this thing has grown and changed over such a short time. I was at a Google adsense meetup this week and I was surprised at how many of the newbees had no idea what wordpress is or does.
I threw in with the beginners having banished adsense previously and am more or less starting from scratch yet again. Kinda sorta, it’s been just about two years since I started moving the site and my mum had her stroke and here we are.
So I’m back to learning a bunch of stuff all over again that I already knew. My problem with AdSense began and ended with my MovieMeme Site, devoted to advancing evolutionary theory into the movie theater. Sounds innocent enough. You would think the ads that would show up would be of interest to the pro-science, evolution, rational thinking crowd. Like myself, you would be wrong, what you get is overwhelmed with Religious propaganda and bullshit.
The problem with pointing this out as a blogger, is it puts you in violation of your terms of service. Nice. So I complained and complained to google, got nowhere and finally pulled the plug. This happened shortly before the stroke.
Move forward and they claim to have improved a bit, so I will give it another go.
And the winner is…..Dreamhost. As you may or may not know, I am on two hosts at the moment, which was a good idea at the time, and I have no complaints about Lunar Pages, the host which I am on now.
The advantage of Dreamhost is it has a better video-delivery back-end and getting everything under one roof seems like a much better plan. I also like the idea of developing a video and photo site for my martial arts stuff, along with the kitty stuff in one neat and easy to manage location.
My main interest is in content building, not site building. Easy is my friend.
