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I’ve Earnt $35,000 from Adsense!

I’ve never really thought of myself as being paticually successful at making money online, but I looked at my adsense account today and found that, since I first starting using in April 2004, I’ve earnt $35,000!!

I know to some people that’s not a big amount, especially over 54 months, but I’m still amazed!  

I’d love to say with all that money I’ve bought my car outright, I’ve got a deposit for a house and I’m not in any debt!  But that would be a lie! :P  I’ve had a good time going out the last few years and never really had to think too much about money, if I wanted to buy something, I would, If I wanted to go out, I would!

Partly because of growing up (yea right!) and because my online income has been dwindling, I’m finally starting to lower my spending and start saving for the future!

The Streets Were Amazing!!

Me and 6 mates went to see The Streets at Carling Academy in Bristol on friday night and it was amazing!

We ended up missing a few songs at the beginning :-(  They started a lot earlier than we expected and we were just sat in the pub next door having a few drinks!

Was still a really good night, got really near the front and the crowd loved every song!

We got a minibus there and listened to a compliation cd with songs from all four albums on the way there, to get us in the mood.

They played my favourite song!  I didn’t expect them to do It’s Too Late, as it’s off the first album, was never released as a single and just really wasn’t expecting to hear it, but when I did I loved it!   I couldn’t even remember all of the words!

Can’t wait to see them again, hoping to try see them again in January as they announced 5 extra dates!  Can’t wait another 2 years!  especially as that will be the last tour! :-(  Going with the Computers and Blues album.

MooPlug 0.4.7 Finally Released

I have finally got around to releasing MooPlug 0.4.7!

It includes the progress dialogs, relatitive filepath support and more!

Head on over and read the full Changelog if you’re interested and then get the download!

14 Things That Annoy Me About The iPhone

Just a rant about some things which annoy me about the iPhone!

Not being able to forward messages - I often use to recieve jokes which I’d send of to a few mates, can’t do this anymore!  I imagine this is something which will get added eventually, it’s not exactly rocket science!
Bluetooth only supporting Hands-Free Profile (HFP) and Headset Profile (HSP), not Basic Imaging Profile (BIP), File Transfer Profile (FTP), and Object Push Profile (OPP), meaning you can only use the bluetooth to connect to headsets, not send or recieve files from friends or even sync via bluetooth to my computer.  I’m not sure if it’s a hardware issue, or I expect it’s just limited by software so possibly in the future this could change!
No MMS.  I didn’t think that I actually used multimedia messages that often, but in the last few weeks that I’ve had my iPhone I know of at least 3 or 4 times where people have asked if I’ve recieved a picture they’ve sent me which I didn’t even know about!
Not being able to edit the auto-complete dictionary.  It’s quite useful that it corrects some of my mistypes, but I often shorten some of my words so I can type quicker, for example ‘bk’ always gets changed to ‘jk’ which annoys me!
Considering it’s basically an iPod with phone features added, the built-in speakers don’t go very loud at all!  My Nokia N95 was much much better in that view.
I have many multiple phone numbers saved under one contact name for Facebook, but even though they are all from the same contact, messages from all the different numbers show up as different coversations in the SMS app, how hard would it be to at least have an option to group them by contact and not just by number.
A 2 megapixel camera and not even a flash?  Seriously?  Even my Nokia N80 which I had 2 years ago had a 3 megapixel camera with a decent flash!
No removeable battery.  Not a masive issue, but for previous phones I always used to keep a spare battery which I would charge and take with me if I knew I’d be without access to a charger.  Also a friend recentley dropped his iPhone in a sink of water, normally you’d remove the battery and leave it to dry out, but obviously he couldn’t do that and his phone was ruined.
No call recording, this isn’t really something I’d necesarily expect to be built in, but I’m surprised there’s nothing in the AppStore to be able to do this, unless using the SDK it isn’t possible, I’m not sure.
Not being able to sync between multiple computers, I have different selections of Music at both home and work and it would be nice if I could sync both lots of them to my iPhone, but instead I had to burn a dvd of the music, take it home and then sync it all from the one computer.
Not sure if this is a SDK issue or down to the App developer, but I noticed with a few games I was playing that if I recieve a SMS it shows on top, blocking the screen and making me lose the game.  Surely the game could pause or something similar?
When updating applications from the AppStore, why do all the new icons have to go to the end?  I put them in the order I wanted so why do you change that?  How hard would it be to update them and leave them where I want?
No clipboard?  Surely this is something which will get added in a future firmware update.  I often used to copy a number from my contacts and paste it into a new message to send to people, annoying I can’t do anything similar now.
Custom Ringtones.  How hard would it be just to let me choose a MP3 or AAC file to use as a ringtone?  It’s my phone and I want to choose what I want to alert me to a phone call or message!  I know there are workarounds to create .M4R files, but we shouldn’t need to.

Just a bit of a rant about somethings which annoyed me about the iPhone, we’ll see if any of the issues improve over time with updates!

Dempsfest 2008

I had a party for my 22nd Birthday on Saturday, which ended up being called Dempsfest!

Was a good laugh, did have a Bouncy Castle booked, but they cancelled it at the last minute because it was raining :-(

Luckily I’ve got a 10m x 5m waterproof marquee thing, we all took cover under when the rain started.

I picked up two 5 gallon barrels of Black Rat Cider on saturday morning (80 Pints!)  and there were only a few drops left by morning!

Think I started drinking about 1pm, last few people went home about 2.30am, I stayed up drinking on my own for a bit and then a few mates come back who’d been out in town, ended up finishing drinking about 6am!  Little bit tired now!

Looking forward to Dempsfest 2009 already!

I Won Tickets to see The Streets at Vodafone TBA!

I won two tickets to see The Streets at Vodafone TBA in Brighton on Sunday!  Wow!

Only problem is Brigton is 3 hours away from me, doors open at 10am and it’s the night after my Birthday Party!  Gutted :-(

Well at least I’m going to see them in October!  Already booked my tickets :D

Vodafone TBA Ticket Winner

Vodafone TBA Ticket Winner

Happy Birthday To Me!

It’s my birthday!  That is all.

What Have I Been Doing?

Well not a lot really, I’ve scheduled up a month’s worth of posts on my FileMaker Plugins site, so that’s ok for  a while, I had hoped to do the same for FileMaker Tips, but ran out of time yesterday, so will start that in a bit.

As I now have a few FileMaker websites I decided to get FileMaker Stuff, which I can use as a mini network hub sort of thing.  For now I’ve just stole the site design etc from AdamDempsey.net, but it’ll do for now.

I’ve also been reading the ProBlogger book I won in a recent competitioin, quite an interesting read!

Also a friend is working on a new design for my blog for me, so should be seeing something from that soon :)


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