Yesterday, as I checked my Adsense stats, Google asked me to read a new Terms and Conditions page.

It appears that I have to now have a privacy policy on all my sites indicating that Google is placing cookies and telling people they can turn off cookies to opt out.

Not a huge deal for one or two sites, but I’ve got sites I don’t even remember building. Sigh

Now that I’ve checked, a lot of these sites do have privacy policies but don’t have the blurb about cookies.

So, I have some work to do in the next few days, I suppose.

I bet you do too.

If you’ve got multiple blogs you’re advertising on Entrecard, or multiple social network accounts AND you’re a Firefox user, this might be helpful.

Firefox includes a user profile feature that’s sort of hidden under the surface that can help you surf with more than one identity.

If you want to try this, you’ll need to start up the profile menu in Firefox. The only way I’ve found to do this is to change the link from my homepage to add the text –profilemanager after the executable in the shortcut.

Right-click on the Firefox icon and choose Properties from the menu that appears.

In the Shortcut tab, add –profilemanager (that’s two hyphens in front of the word profilemanager) to the target after  any quotation marks in the field.

Click OK to save your changes. Make sure all your browser windows are closed, and double click the edited icon.

There’s probably only one profile in there now, called Default. You can rename that one, and add others.

Create a brand new profile, highlight it, then start Firefox. You’ll have a fresh, clean, cookie-free, login-free Firefox to begin using for your second profile.

If you uncheck the “Don’t Ask At Startup” box before you go, you’ll always get to choose which profile you want to surf with when you start Firefox.

Changing personalities is now as simple as closing down and restarting your browser.

As I’m surfing through some of the nifty ways to increase blog traffic through Entrecard, MyBloglog, and similar sites, I wonder how people with multiple blogs are using these services.

Do you simply promote one blog on entrecard, or do you switch profiles half way through the day and drop with your other profile? Do you have one profile saved in Firefox, one in Opera and one in IE, then surf different topics with different browsers?

It’s not likely to be beneficial to drop your jet skiing blog card on an Internet marketing blog entrecard. Nor is it going to do you much good to have your dog care profile show up on jet skiing bloglog visits.

I’m getting my linkage all mixed up. Does anyone have a good suggestion?

Today is a holiday. To be specific, it’s the very first Family Day Ontario has ever had. Back in Alberta, we had family day holidays for years, but this is a first for Ontario.

Anyway, being a stay-at-home, homeschooling family, we get enough family time. If we tried to add any more, we’d get sick of eachother.

So I’m spending part of Family Day working on my site.

While I haven’t worked out all the complexities in my theme design, I did easily set up everything else. Using plugins for contact forms, a forum, and a way to take charge of my menus was a breeze.  I’m using pages for the actual site and posts for the back-end blog, and the whole thing seems to be coming together sooo much more smoothly than I thought it would.

I was reading about Wordpress last night, and suddenly I had a few ideas that my brain wouldn’t let go of. I wrote them down to get them out of my head, but they wouldn’t leave. I ordered them to get out of my brain space, but they persisted. In the end, I gave in and let myself become completely side-tracked.

And so, instead of working on my new site in my free time today, I began writing specs for some new software that I will get coded at RaC this month. Once the specs are done and the projects are posted my brain will be back where it needs to be.