I was at Chapters today flipping through a magazine when it occurred to me how many advertisements were in it. After looking in a couple others, even big name ones, there were still a huge number of ads. Let's do the math, here. The first magazine I was looking at was only a short thing, 55 pages or so. I counted it up and there were around 20 full page ads, plus some extra pages covered with smaller ads, plus a couple of 'side bar' ads. That's insane. So, an already overpriced $6.50 CND magazine is at least 35% advertisements, along with some extra added in ads and a few articles with one of those graphic things covering one and a half pages that leaves only half of a page of text. Clearly this would need to have some really amazing articles to make it worth buying. Of course, this is and has always been a trend with the magazine industry. People like their articles all jazzed up with images and little drawings and such. And, as they say, money doesn't grow on trees. Making a mag is a costly investment, and it takes a lot of these ads to keep costs down. Still, it isn't hard to believe that sometimes publishers decide to put in more than necessary to make a few extra bucks. Now, though, with blogs, RSS feeds and sites like Digg gaining in popularity every day, the internet may be cutting into magazine's profits more than you think.

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Yup. Time for a blog. And guess what? I was very surprised to find out that I have people who aren't me reading my blog. Either that or Google Analytics is messed up. Anyways. The England game was today, I watched it and was, well, a little disappointed. Sure, they are through to the next round but if they don't pick it up they probably wont go as far as many are hoping they will. On the other hand, Portugal seemed to over do it. In their game against the Netherlands the two teams managed to rack up sixteen cards between them. Sixteen! Four of them Red! Insane. I haven't seen all of the game yet, though, I'm going to try and watch some of it tonight. That is probably a bad idea since I have my next exam tomorrow, but you can probably tell my priorities. I think getting ...

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Well, I've done well with the site, I believe. From a standard blog with a default template to a user-made template to editing it to be my own. I like the green, but orange is really more my thing. I've also managed to duplicate the layout for the other pages on my site…well, it was kind of just a copy and paste job, but I'm still happy. I think it is a much nicer, less crowded look from my old layout. Now that I think about it, since this blog publishes an RSS feed I can get that Google Ajax search working that wouldn't work on my old site. More copy-from-old-blog-and-paste fun. Oh, and things are going well in the real world, too. I'm done half my exams and now have a weekend for the rest of my studying. My Language Arts exam was extremely easy, I got my mark ...

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