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You need some 'explanation' in case it does - like this stuff happens and there are these ways to prevent it - and everything you have done - use it to your advantage

I was doing a presentation of a database front end system on a clients system on their dial up connection and these pop up messages kept showing "Hi im Mandy looking for fun in your area..." or something like that.

It brought a chuckle from the audience, but was a bit annoying after the third or so time!

Hope your presentation goes well tomorrow

I always find those ads creepy, where they show girls that are supposedly from your own town. I understand they can tell where I live based on my browsing information, but just the fact that it says Abbotsford on there irks me a bit.

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Originally Posted by Blue Cat Buxton

You need some 'explanation' in case it does - like this stuff happens and there are these ways to prevent it - and everything you have done - use it to your advantage

I was doing a presentation of a database front end system on a clients system on their dial up connection and these pop up messages kept showing "Hi im Mandy looking for fun in your area..." or something like that.

It brought a chuckle from the audience, but was a bit annoying after the third or so time!

Hope your presentation goes well tomorrow

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Good idea. Thanks. I am very nervous about it as I hate public speaking. I usually end up laughing hysterically about nothing and not be able to stop.

Should be interesting, googles added some more nice ads to my site - Punk Personals, Gay Punk and Punk ***. Lovely. It seems to be a hit and miss thing, 50 percent of the time the ads a clean and the other 50 percent is those mentioned ads. I have bad luck, I know what 50 percent I will get.

I don't know how you feel about this idea, but you could capture an image of some google ads on your site that you think are suitable, and then use that image in place of the AdSense code. That way you obviously wont be risking any bad ads showing up and it'll look exactly like normal adsense ads.

Genius man :)

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Originally Posted by chromate

I don't know how you feel about this idea, but you could capture an image of some google ads on your site that you think are suitable, and then use that image in place of the AdSense code. That way you obviously wont be risking any bad ads showing up and it'll look exactly like normal adsense ads.

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Awesome idea.

wont, work google serve's so many ads that most people's ad click are probably finidh in a day to a week, that will require constant editing. I like it as it is, except the payment which can be very low at times, hopefully yahoo publisher pay's more

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wont, work google serve's so many ads that most people's ad click are probably finidh in a day to a week, that will require constant editing.

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What in the world are you talking about? She's doing this as a project in school. I believe an image would be perfectly suited to the situation; even if it's just a quick edit just before the presentation.

Did the presentation today. Did the images idea then changed it back once it was over. Presentation wasn't as bad as I thought it would be :).

Hoorah! :)

Hazaah!

Congrats on it going well. Have you heard how well they thought you did on it?

Thanks.

Nope, won't find out till the end of the year.

Did get some "warm/cool" feedback though -
Warm - Good standard of work for year 9 or something along those lines. And they also enjoyed abusing my 'Build A Punk' game.
Cool - Need to use more self-confidence when presentating.

Yeah, presentations were never my strong-suit in High School either (I failed them all, basically!); funny, I always enjoyed it when I was in primary school. :)

Well done, at least it is over :)

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Cool - Need to use more self-confidence when presentating.

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Yeah, being an obnoxious *** like myself helps with certain things like this.

I really have always somewhat enjoyed public speaking. When doing it, I pay close attention to how I'm presenting:
- reading speed
- how much I'm depending on the cards so that I don't have to look at the class
- am I panning my head from left to right to left (while keeping the motion natural), to make sure that I'm keeping the class attentive?
By doing this I've always gotten high B's/A's (CA-style) in public speaking.

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Presentation wasn't as bad as I thought it would be :).

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That tends to be the way. I used to hate giving presentations in both school and uni. But they ALWAYS turned out better than I thought they would.

I wouldnt' call myself a "web publisher" yet, just cause I have no sites online making money currently. I'd love to be making enough from some sites to support myself and my family here say within the next few years or so. I've got tons of ideas, just havn't started them yet.

Best time to start is now, mate! :)

Agreed, don't just say the next few years, make those things happen today.

Well I am working dilligently (spelling?) to get some of my ideas up and running. The "three years" part was just me hopeing to start making some decent money by then. I don't figure I'll blow it out of the water as soon as some of my site are online, so I figure three years is a good number to work for a good profit.

My boyfriend does it because he loves it so much and for the money. To diversify his income, he invested on a hosting business, a web design business (employing others of course, he just manage it) and some shares. We live together (I only see him on fri night - sunday due to my work) and I work full time as a consultant. He tried to get me to do some web publishing for him, I went crazy. I hate working from home and not seeing many people. My current job involves lots of travelling and meeting people so web publishing's definetely not for me.