Mental notes to myself

I started submitting some items to google base using the API.
It was all going fine until I realized some keywords were banned from the description, title or URL.
I was posting the free articles I have, about various subjects and my purpose was not spamming.
It’s kind of weird if you want to post a news about anti-online gambling and to get banned.

It’s a stupid keyword match, not a context match. This means you can’t really post anything about those keywords even if you’re writing against or for.

Here is the list I’ve found that is banned. Maybe there are more.

Update: I’ve found this one which is really weird: iraqi dinar

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It didn’t surprise me to read, some guys are suing Nintendo for failing to include a non-defective remote control. As far as I got, it has something to do with the breaking remote straps which were recently replaced.
Here is a pic for the replaced straps :
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I realized a new presentation of “Ads by Google” thing on the adsense advertisments
Looks really nice

Hello,
I’d like to announce my new website that I’m building right now. FindInArticles.com.
This site is about articles, it crawls all known article directories, article publishing sites and gethers articles from them.
It has a really extensive categorical index. currently I have about 1000 articles but the number is growing daily.
I used Php / Mysql / Apache to build up the site. I’m planning to add some ajax toys by the time.
You can also submit articles too.

Visit me and tell me what you think thanks…

Interesting article on googles non-search products and how they’re expanding their business.

Some of Google’s non-search projects are really extensions of its search monetization, and are likely to succeed. But others projects mean entering areas where Google doesn’t have much experience, and is taking a risk. With regard to those riskier areas, the key question for Google’s future is whether it can realize that losing is really one of the best assets the company has.

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Reading this interview is a really good start to monday morning.
The questiongs are directed to the well known and not so well known programmers.

Linus Torvalds - The Linux kernel author
Dave Thomas - Author of the Pragmmatic Programmer, Programming Ruby and other great books about programming. One can read his mainly programming-related thoughts here.
David Heinemeier Hansson - Author of the Rails Framework - the new hot web development framework. He has a weblog here.
Steve Yegge - Proably the least known from guys here, but also made one of the most interestings answers, has a popular weblog about programming. He is also the author of a game called „Wyvern”.
Peter Norvig - Research Director at Google, a well known Lisper, author of famous (in some circles at least) books about AI. See his homepage.
Guido Van Rossum - The Python language creator
James Gosling - The Java language creator
Tim Bray - One of the XML and Atom specifications author and a blogger too.

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It’s a surprising news that eBay is banning Google checkout.
Are they too scared to compete with Google.
Checkout the accepted payments list on eBay.

Payment Services permitted on eBay: Allpay.net, Bidpay, Canadian Tire Money, cash2india, CertaPay, Checkfree.com, hyperwallet,com, Moneybookers.com, Ozpay.biz, Paymate.com.au, Propay.com, XOOM

Payment Services not permitted on eBay: AlertPay.com, anypay.com, AuctionChex.com, AuctionPix.com, BillPay.ie, ecount.com, cardserviceinternational.com, CCAvenue, ecount, e-gold, eHotPay.com, ePassporte.com, EuroGiro, FastCash.com, Google Checkout, gcash, GearPay, Goldmoney.com, graphcard.com, greenzap.com, ikobo.com, Liberty Dollars, Moneygram.com, neteller.com, Netpay.com, Nochex.com, paychest.com, payingfast.com, Payko.com, paypay, Postepay, Qchex.com, rupay.com, scripophily.com, sendmoneyorder.com, stamps, Stormpay, wmtransfer.com, xcoin.com

Silently Bell Sympatico updated their terms and service affective by the May 15,2006 but all the news papers and Slashdot figured it out now a days.
Paragraph 17 of the terms and conditions of Bell Sympatico Service, it says:

User Information; Other Information. Your messages may be the subject of unauthorized third party interception and review. An individual with Internet access can cause, among other things, damage, incur expenses and enter into contractual obligations while on the Internet. All such matters are your sole responsibility. Your Service Provider has no obligation to monitor the Service, any content or your use of Your Service Provider’s networks. However, you agree that Your Service Provider reserves the right from time to time to monitor the Service electronically, monitor or investigate content or your use of Your Service Provider’s networks, including without limitation bandwidth consumption, and to disclose any information necessary to satisfy any laws, regulations or other governmental request from any applicable jurisdiction, or as necessary to operate the Service or to protect itself or others.

That means they’ll tell you to the big brother if you download mp3s from your favorite bittorrent site.
Also by talking to friends I learned that all the ISPs in Canada doing the same thing already but Bell is the first ISP to announce it on their ToS.

When it happens it’s good to know how to a repair bad credit report:

Plain and simple, bad credit affects your credit rating/score (FICO score) and your ability to get financing. The impact of bad credit can range from not getting the loan or credit card to having to pay interest rates well in excess of what you would see if you had good credit.
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I’ve found this interesting article on why the web2.0 applications fail (or will fail)

1. Focus on social instead of personal.
2. They solve too many problems, or try to.
3. They’re about making someone other than the user happy.
4. They sell it the wrong way.
5. Not in it for the long haul.
6. They show too much of what’s going on, and get gamed.
7. They don’t have an underlying business strategy of improving people’s lives.

nicely pointed out by Joshua Porter
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