Three cents for a click is a steal!

Right now I have 103 clicks since my last Google adsense payment, which will pay me $74.44. That's an average of $0.73 per click. Some clicks pay me over a dollar. Google must be taking a cut for this, advertisers are paying even more.

I started a Google adwords campaign for a company a few years ago, and thought I'd have no problem finding some keywords where I could get a trickle of customers at $0.10. No dice. I had to move to a dollar or two a click before I could even spend my advertising budget.

There's been a tent city moving around the outskirts of Seattle for 6 or 8 months, calling itself Nickelsville (in honor of Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels). It just recently moved to West Seattle: http://westseattleblog.com/blog/?p=17881

A second piece of hardware is a really good idea if it's possible to get. You can apply system updates first to the test environment to make sure it will work before putting them on the production server. You can install new server software versions and make sure the software works on it before upgrading the production system.

Also, it's nice having a complete set of hardware as a backup in case you have some critical component on the production hardware fail that you can't immediately replace. Maybe this guy was clueless, but he had the right idea. Now you have 'educated' yourself out of a proper setup.