I've soft launched WayStupid.com. I say soft simply because I am not announcing it to the world or driving traffic to it yet. I want to let it run with friends and family accessing it to check for bugs. I spent hours tonight learning to do SQL 2005 OVER clauses with views and INNER JOINs so I could do high performance pagination. That makes the site really fast. I also learned how to make SQL Server return results in random order. That gives me the ability to select six random records for the 'Random Stupid Six' that appears on the view page.

I've also mirrored David's (my brother's) website (galaxy22.dyndns.org) at galaxy22.murraynet.net so he could provide access to more uses. His issue is that he only has a 128Kb/s DSL upstream. Since I have 5Mb/s up I can provide a pretty good mirror. However, I have limited connections to 256Kb/s to keep it from taking too much bandwidth from my other sites. As a bonus I added a footer to IIS so that it places a Google Adsense advertisement at the bottom of every page. Hopefully his content will provide me with some revenue in exchange for my bandwidth. I also tagged every page to label it as a mirrored site and a link to the real site. I'm using a neat little open-source program called WGET that downloads any changed pages from his site every morning at 4am.

I'm really hoping to be able to make some money from this Google Adsense program. Maybe it won't make me rich, but I've read about several popular sites make thousands of dollars a month off of their ads. I also read about one guy who is making a million dollars a year just by making thousands of sites and posting ads on them. Each day he wakes up and makes a new website and then indexes it in all of the search engines. At some point he hired a team of people to do it for him and now he just does whatever he wants to do. Hey, if someone else can do it, so can I!