Binary Bonsai

I just received this mail, from Andy Budd:

“I’m sending you this email to let you know about a small project I’ve launched to help the victims of the Asian Tsunami and Earthquake. The idea is to encourage bloggers to donate the earnings from their site for the month of January to a relief agency of their choice. For most people, the money they make from site advertising such as Google AdWords is a nice little extra, but something they could quite happily do without for a month. By pledging this money, it gives bloggers an easy way to support the relief efforts. While I obviously can’t guarantee that people will donate their earnings, I’m hoping that a public commitment will encourage the majority of people to honour their pledge.

http://www.blogaid.org.uk/

I’d really appreciate it if you guys—some of the highest profile people in the blogsphere—would help promote this project as well as pledge if you have ads or affiliate programs on your site.”

I have not carried ads before, primarily because my intention never was to make money off of this site. But this is as good a time as any to begin. So I signed up for AdSense, and as soon as they get back to me, I’ll get them up here.

Also, all donations for Kubrick will go straight into BlogAid.

Related:
Bloggers Without Borders

Recently I’ve experienced a boat-load of absolutely nonsense spam! Just random characters, pointing to random character URI’s (having checked a few, they lead no where). The name is often semi-coherent, but everything else makes absolutely no sense at all. The senders seem to be from three different IP’s.

I’m not sure what the point is; I can only guestimate that perhaps they’re testing the system for flaws or something along those lines. So far none of the comments have gotten through. If it continues I’ll add the IP’s to my blacklist and hope that settles the matter.

So Matt finally got around to working me into his webcomic. I’m the bald guy; and no, I’m not really that bald (nor am I that thin, but I’ll let that one go). I’m not sure if it all makes sense to people who aren’t in the comic, but hey… :)