AdSense brings video ads to your website, almost

December 28, 2007

According to the Google AdSense site it is possible to put video units on your own website. Unfortunately when one tries to sign up for the service you get the following error AdSense error: The publisher must be associated with the developer account before the developer can invoke operations on the publisher's account. A message board post yesterday suggests Google is aware of the problem and working on it so it will be a little while longer before the video player page goes live here.

We'll be right back after these messages...

December 11, 2007


My unintended and extended hiatus here will soon come to an end. This unintentional break has been brought to you by a series of rather interesting stories that will soon enough be told here. Long story short, never, never do business with a builder who puts falsified sold signs on their properties to try and pump up the market. Yes I should have known better but one always holds out hope that people will just plain be straight shooters even when the evidence suggests otherwise. Now if I could just locate some sane people in the real estate market. As I said more will follow probably next week when I'm back up to speed.

Hey there rodeo fans

November 26, 2007

If you're coming to Las Vegas this December for the National Finals Rodeo or just to check out Cowboy Christmas there are several other things that might be fun to do while you're in town. None of the suggestions I'll post in the following weeks should keep anyone from making donations to the Nevadans Don't Like To Pay Taxes fund at your local casino.

However, if you'd like to find some off-the-beaten-path things to do while you're in Sin City then consider taking at trip to the Ethyls Chocolate Factory and cactus garden. Although the company has a new name their facility has been a Las Vegas favorite for more than 25 years -- longer than some casinos last in this town. The trip will leave you with plenty of time to get back for the nightly performance at the Thomas & Mack and will provide a glimpse of 300+ desert species in a four-acre sanctuary. Oh and you can sample chocolates at the factory while you're there.

End of the Lubick era

November 25, 2007

Several reports suggest the Sonny Lubick era at Colorado State University is over. There are suggestions that Lubick may have been forced out circulating as well. Having been at CSU for the start of the Lubick era and watched a program go from nothing to one of the best program for student athletes in the country it will be sad to see Lubick go. Hopefully in leaving with time remaining on his contract Lubick will be able to be a strong force in shaping the post-Lubick era at Colorado State University.

Problems combining PDF's in Automator in 10.5

November 25, 2007

Recently getting into job looking mode has led me to brush off the Automator routines for combining PDF documents into one document. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to be working in OS X 10.5 (or 10.5.1). A Apple Discussion Forum post suggests I'm not the only one encountering the problem.

When you run the action in Automator it works like a charm. When running the action as a plug-in in the Finder the action swirls for a moment and then nothing happens. From my testing it does not seem to matter what is done with the output of "Combine PDF Pages" nothing happens from there on.

An upside to poor education

November 21, 2007

Perhaps the drive for better education is overrated. If everybody had a reasonable education in math it would not have been possible for my $6.00 sandwich and my $1.75 soda pop to end up totaling $6.75 at the local delivery place. With enough math like this Nevada's budget could be balanced overnight.

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