Plenty of things happened during my holiday. I got email from Google that my AdSense account is closed due invalid clicks. Well, I can not do too much if someone likes to support my site and clicks around too much. I did not want to put "Terms of Usage" agreement to pop up before user can see any content. There was no reply from Google to my response through their forms, so I decided to remove advertisement code from templates for good. Maybe it is better this way.

It just made me think a case where those AdSense clicks bring significant income to the site owner. In my case it was just pennies and interesting hobby. But for someone with more serious goals it can ruin a lot. This also makes possible to blackmail site owners. In this forum there is some discussion about this topic. I have read elsewhere that there are tools to track clicks on ads and then blacklist IPs based on suspicious usage patterns yourself before Google's own alert is triggered. This might be necessary for all site owners with AdSense as Google does not warn owner of the possibility of account closing.

This event was naturally disappointing but I learnt something about how these things work. If I ever happen to set up a commercial site with serious traffic I wont count too much on AdSense income longevity.

During my holiday in Finland I spent minimal time in front of the computer. Therefore I missed a truly amazing case of MediaDefender. This company is trying to prevent p2p piracy with various and even questionable means. But now there have been series of leaks from that company. Several months email, phone calls and even source code Even though I am not a hard core torrent user I find latest events really hilarious. I do not know the exact way how that information was leaked but usually a single user can cause a havoc by sheer laziness. In this case it is said to be forwarding company emails to Gmail account... A perfect example for next network and system security lecture.

I have been on vacation ten days and it has been really relaxing. Most of the time I have been in a summer cottage next to a lake. Weather has been unstable and rainy but I do not mind. In addition of spending time in a forest I have visited relatives and avoided computers. And I feel good.

I will go to Finland for two weeks and I spend most of the time in the summer cottage without computer. So no updates to blog for some time. But you can always read through archive.

Oh, last weekend was pretty great. We had a company weekend in Szépalma. That is a hotel in the country side with nice facilities. There we had a stress free weekend in a clean nature. Good starter for my vacation.

Today Dóra went to visit her mother in Miskolc for couple days. So I am alone in here which is not that nice. Actually I had some plans for the day but I ended up doing totally different things. I was planning to visit office to finish some search criteria implementation in my current work project but I postponed it for Sunday.

Instead working I spent plenty of time in our bean chair with laptop. I got strange idea to find out how text files could be compared in order to see how well they much. But I found plenty of information about near duplicate algorithms but I did not do any coding. The reason was that I started to think the usability and sort of a business case of my idea and I did not see it feasible. So, I put that idea on hold with other great ideas. I have already a big folder in my laptop under "Developing" containing ideas and mind maps of various software projects of my own. Unfortunately they haven't had enough rocket fuel in them to get going and really make me implementing them.

Well, as my day was not that productive I did not feel like getting up from the bean chair. Eventually I ended up checking many Finnish comic blogs. These are blogs about various topics but instead of written text they have a small comic strip there. Norpatti, Kuvatuksia, Henry and many more. I really like the idea of a comic blog. It can be funny or serious but I think it gives much more personal view to the author than this kind of written blog.

This actually gave me idea to find some empty paper and pencils. I have been scribbling some strange things on the paper but at the moment I have no intention to publish them. Maybe one day...

Dóra's aunt invited us to their 25th wedding anniversary celebration and it took place yesterday. First there was a church event of some kind in the famous Mátyás-templom (Matthias Church). There the couple was blessed again.



After that we moved to nearby Hilton hotel for a dinner. In the Anjou room we enjoyed various dishes during the evening and I have to say they were pretty tasty. Well, it is a five star hotel so I suppose that they know how to cook.