Entries from May 2006 ↓

You will have noticed that I’ve pimped Kim Bah Lee with a few adverts. Google Adsense has promised that I won’t have to work any more once I’ve peppered the screen with “contextual text ads”. Those of you with a Gmail account will notice the same ads alongside your messages.

I’m not allowed to ask you to click on them, so I won’t. I’m also not allowed to run around to my friends houses and click on them myself. Nor am I allowed to discuss my earnings, but if you want me to buy you a pint, you’ll have to wait another few months.

The idea is that the Google intelligence gremlins scan your blog for words that their advertisers might like, then they place appropriate text links. Given the subject matter that’s drawn people here in the past (see previous posts) this means that last time I had a look, I was greeted (gret?) with the words “Skin conditions, cellulitis cures, acne” at the top of the screen:

Which gives out the wrong message.

So no more talk about p*l*nidal cy*sts or sk*n c**ditions, no mention of l*mps in gr*ins and tragically, no more f*ce n*mb c**lulitis.

Instead we’ll see if we can trick them into promoting algebra, lawnmowers and recipes for asparagus.

And no blow-job bars.

In an effort to get more productive I’ve been using the resources of various websites - Lifehacker, 43 Folders, Lifehack.org, David Allen’s Getting Things Done and others. I’ve been boosting my geek credentials. I’ve made organisers, diaries, to-do lists, life-plans. I’ve listened to the motivational speeches of Tony Robbins and Wayne Dyer. I’ve resolved and confirmed and asserted.

I wanted to maximise my studying time to retain knowledge and apply it usefully. I wanted my revision sessions to be nine parts books and one part staring out the window, not the other way around.

So far I’ve spent about sixteen hours reading up on overcoming procrastination. Haven’t done much else, mind.

I realise that the more I write about this, the worse it will become, but recent visitors have found this website by searching for “pictures of pilonidal cysts”, “aching in the groin whilst ill”, “bumrungrad hospital herpes” and my favourite, “face numb cellulitis”. Although I’m not sure I’m carving out the niche I intended, it makes a welcome change from “bangkok blow job bar”.

I’m two weeks away from finishing my exams. One down, three to go. Mrs K is frolicking in London, my parents are enjoying “best holiday of their lives” in the Med and I’m sitting in Brussels, trying to get excited about the politics of international economic relations. The International Politics of East Asia was a couple of weeks ago. I thought my last trip would have put me at an advantage, but there were disappointingly few questions about grasshoppers, bum guns or low-cost air travel.

Thinking about establishing Kim Bah Lee Books to keep me busy once I’m a graduate.

Later.