Making money from your Blog

In Sri Lanka only a handful of people blog and from that handful only a few try to generate money from it. From this post what I would like to tell is that while you do your blogging hobby you also can make some reasonable amount of money too.
My site hasn't had 500 hits yet but I thought of putting some ads in here just for fun. I haven't got any money from it but there are many guys out there who blog and make a handsome amount of money from it. Why don't you also try it??? You might get lots of hits to your website one day and that day you will regret that you haven't had monetize your blog before!!
Why regret?? I doesn't hurt anyone by monetizing your blog.
It's not a long and tedious process to add some ads in to your blog! Here's how I did it.

I went to Google Adsense and got registered to it. You don't have to pay anything for them to get registered and you can use your existing Google email address(That is if you have one) to make an account in adsense. There are also bunch of other sites who post ads into your blog (Yahoo also has something like adsense but I don't know much about it). And then fill in your details it's that simple. You don't have to put credit card details or anything just fill out the form and they will mail your earning to your doorstep(via post).
You can also get your earnings debited to your bank account too. Google adsense has presentations prepared for users who doesn't know who to add the ads to there blogs and presentations on many more things related to monetizing your blog.
But they only sent in your earnings when it reaches $100. If you are not that much of a blogger and your site doesn't gets hits much(Like my blog) you might think it's a waste of time doing it. But wait!!! Think again!!
If people don't come to your website MAKE them come to your website!! Here are bunch of stuff that might get you to increase your hits and thereby increase your earnings.(I too am trying to do that :D)

1. Post articles about timely and interesting stuff. (People always want know new stuff)
2. Make your post short and sweet. (People doesn't want to read too long articles)
   
3. Put pictures and make things look attractive.
   
4. Don't write long paragraphs and try to use lists and much as possible.

If you do things like this people might be tempted to come again and again to your blog.
Well, monetize your blog and make some money while you are doing your hobby.
So, then Happy Blogging!! :D

3D Instant Messaging Client (IMVU)

  Are you sick and tired of chatting in the same old Instant Messaging Client?? Well, there is a good news for u guys!! There is this Messaging client that takes Instant messaging into a whole new level.
  Now you can create an 3D avatar and configure it to your own way and you can start chatting with your friends or with a randomly selected person.This messaging client is called IMVU. This facility is totally free. You can download the messaging client for absolutely free of charge.
  You can differentiate your avatar from the others by buying new products and using them in your avatar. However to buy the clothes and other accessories one needs pay money and get IMVU credits(The method of exchange in the IMVU community). You can get these credits by paying money directly to the IMVU.inc or you can buy them from third party dealers. You might get discounts when u get from third party dealer but for every $1 IMVU provides users with 1000 IMVU credits.
  This is not the only way that one can earn credits. there are many ways in which you can get credits but they are all termed as promo credits and this can only be used to buy products. One way in which you can get promo credits is by refereeing your friends to this online community.
Below is a snap shot of a chat.

  When you first register for this community you will be getting a avatar name which has the prefix "Guest_". This is due to the fact that you have to get a package called "Account Name". For this a user must pay directly to the IMVU.inc.
Product inventing and selling can be done by the users themselves and for that one need to pay to pay for the IMVU developer program. When you sell your products the money you make will come to you and you can use it to buy new products or to resell them so that you can get money. if you want to join in this 3D instant messaging client the link is given below.
IMVU - The World's Greatest 3D Chat



Oh by the way you'll have to have a good internet connection to chat in this cuz it might get very slow when chatting in a dialup connection.
Well, happy chatting guys!! :D

A Movie Review : Eight Below

This Movie is based on a true story and it is about eight sledge dogs left behind in the cold, harsh antarctic.
Firstly it was just a temporary evacuation but then since the weather was not good it turned out to be a permanent evacuation and the guide and the owner of the eight dogs struggle to go and rescue these dogs.
This portraits the need to be as a team and to work as a team to survive in the most dangerous environments. The dogs find their day to day food by working as a team and it is very encouraging to see dogs act as a team to overcome the problems in life, when some humans don't do that in their day to day lives.
There is this place where one member of the pack is striving to get the leadership position in the pack. He didn't quarrel to get the position, he acted as a leader when the existing one was hurt and also learnt from the existing leader how to overcome problems as a leader. The leader of the pack gave the leadership to a new dog when he knew that he couldn't go on being the leader since he was injured. The new leader didn't abandon him in the antarctic when the owner came to rescue them. He showed the owner where the injured dog was and saved that dog's life.
These kind of acts are rarely seen in the human world. In the human world, when someone gives up the leadership to some one else he who got it doesn't even care for the one who gave the position in the first place. And also few humans in this world will give away their leadership position to someone else even though he feels that he is not fit for the job.
So these kind of good acts can be learnt by we humans from these dogs in this movie. It was such a great movie and I couldn't help myself shed a tear when the dogs reunited with their owner in the end. They went through a lot in the months that they were alone in the antarctic but they ran to great their owner and friends when they came to rescue them.
If you guys have not seen this yet, go on and find the movie and experience this great movie.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

This was by far the most interesting book I've ever read in the harry potter series. The Dumbledore and Snape plot was just as I presumed. In a corner of my mind I've always thought that Dumbledore had plotted his own death, but what I couldn't reason my self was up to what extent did his plan will work after his death.
It was very good move of J.K.Rowling to say that Snape had feelings for Lily and that really made that the plot will work even after Dumbledore died.
My concern is that how on earth did Ron learn to speak "Parseltongue". If I have read it right they got the Basilisk's from the Chamber of the Secrets and destroyed Hufflepuff's goblet by Ron speaking Parseltongue and retrieving the Basilisk head. That was a really baffling point to me.
Deathly Hallows and how it helped harry to survive the killing curse the second time is also a bit confusing to me. Was it the fact that he was the rightful owner of the Elden Wand that enabled him to live??? Come to think of it other wands also could not harm him since he had the two way connection between Voldermort and Harry. But why then harry came to the near death experience situation where he met Dumbledore?? Dumbledore said that if he wanted he had the choice of "Moving On" but he also said that he had the choice of staying back and finishing the unfinished work. That part is a bit confusing to me.
But all in all it was the best Harry Potter book I have ever read. It had more near capture and death situations than all the other potter books put to together. The ending was like all children's story books should end. A HAPPY ENDING!! The bad guy was dead. All magical communities came together and to top it all up HARRY & GINNNY got married and had three children, RON & HERMIONE married. Rowling doesn't say who Malfoy married but he has a son just like him. And Oh almost forgot Neville now has to be addressed as Professor since he is the Herbology teacher at Hogwarts!!
BEST SERIES EVER!!! Thanks J.K Rowling for this wonderful fiction series!!

What I posted below has some problems

Well, I have done very stupid thing in creating my deathmatch server. Since i had some problems in an earlier installed mod I have put gun game mod on top of the CSDM mod. After that the DM mod also worked fine. If you do the installing according to the below instructions you will get a gun game not a deathmatch server. You can make the below gun game mod a deathmatch but the mod doesn't contain any preset spawn points so you'll be re spawned in the original spawn points. This will be a disadvantage for one side.
To avoid this I recommend coping the preset spawn point configs(whole csdm folder inside configs) from the CSDM mod(You can get this mod from this link I think CSDM core files will be enough if you have already installed amxmod, but if you have not installed it just download the CSDM with AMX and just extract it into the cstrike folder) and pasting it in the configs folder in the amxmodx.
Then put this line inside the gungame.cfg.
spawnmode = preset
Make sure that
gg_dm 1
gg_dm_spawn_random 1
If you do these you will have a gun game deathmatch mod. Which is really cool!!
If you want only deathmatch I think that putting CSDM mod will be enough.
Make sure that gg_dm_spawn_random is "1" otherwise you will spawn in the original spawn points.
Hope this solved the problem.

How to Create a Deathmatch Server in Counter Strike 1.6

  When i wanted to make a Deathmatch server (DM), I found out that there is no proper site to tell how exactly to do so. With great difficulty I gathered information from various site and put it together and created a DM server.
  There is a software called AMX Mod X you can download the latest version(1.76d).

• Download "AMX Mod X Full Installer" from http://www.amxmodx.org/
  
• When installing select the "Select mod directory" and install it in cstrike folder.
• Then go to this site - http://mods.counter-strike.com/
  
• There you can find many mods for CS 1.6 and CS:S
• If you want create a Deathmatch game I would recommend to get the gun game mod since CS Deathmatch that i got from a another site gave some problems (I don't know if this gives the same problems)
• Then extract this to cstrike folder in CS.
• In the gun game page you will find all the necessary adjustments that you have to do in simple and understandable manner.
• You'll also find the quick commands that you can do while in the game.

Well, hope this gives the information required to put up a DM server. If you have any problems just put up a comment.
  Thanks for coming to this blog.
  Mayura Wijeyaratne.

My first Blog

Hi everybody,
Welcome to my first blog page. Will be posting varies stuff at varies occasions so free to come to my blog to be informed.
Thanks for coming,
Mayura.