Been mindlessly surfing under the influence of PMS all day, absorbing ideas and killing pop-up ads. I had selfishly (actually desperately) added some affiliate and a couple of strategically placed pop-under ads to my overloaded main website back in October, which is my big season (I always go over my traffic limits at Halloween) hoping to make a tiny bit of revenue. Gotta tell you, though, the only affiliate that has ever sent me any money was Amazon.com, and that wasn't for too much. After hundreds of thousands of hits the last few months I got nada from the three groups I signed up with, so screw them, I'm taking all their crap back off my site, no more free advertising.

I need to upgrade my weblog to the new version of Movable Type, but I have too many hormones running rampant right now and it will be my first upgrade, so I think I'll wait a bit and just work on my main site. I hit SOOO many dead links surfing around tonight, it inspired me to update my own site. I have a cable modem, a G4 power Mac and an updated browser with lots of memory so if I can't get sites to work, I pity the dialup folks. I hit lots of non-navigable sites which really pisses me off to no end also. I'm all for artsy and minimalism, but sometimes people go too far. I've been working on a major overhaul anyway, I just need to get in gear. I'm such a damned perfectionist, if I don't just jump in and do something it will never get done. My site's been an ongoing project for over five years now, I wish I could just play with it full-time :-)

Anyone have any ideas how to lessen the hum from cable modems and external hard drives? I have tinnitus and when I'm bitchy the humming from my own desk can drive me nuts. I have hearing like a dog, I also have a dog's sense of smell. Believe me, I want neither. I think my senses are unbalanced because I was born with 20/400 vision. I corrected it in my twenties with old fashioned RK surgery, worked great, but now that I'm past 40 I'm getting far-sighted and have to wear reading glasses. I also think staring at a 19" computer screen all day is screwing up my night vision. The RK made it fuzzy to start with, I used to see like a cat (lots of animal analogies tonight, I miss my pets...), but it's been declining the last few years. I've been taking betacarotene to try and counteract it, seems to be helping a bit.

Fun stuff I found tonight:

The coolest 404 screen I've seen!
A hall of shame for ugly bridesmaid dresses
Bad advertising pics from around the world
And one of the whores on Joe Millionaire is a bondage actress