Wow! What’s a funny thing? Do you ever think how a optical mouse works? Yes! You can turn your mouse into some kind of scanner or camera because it must have a optical sensor (mostly CCD).

People get bored sometimes, and when I get bored I sometimes open up stuff to find out what makes it tick. One time, I did this with an old optical mouse. Well, a mouse only has 2 chips inside: the optical sensor and a chip for the usb/ps2-interfacing. I looked up the datasheet of the optical sensor (which is an ADNS2610) and it told me the sensor has a tiny 18x18 CCD, which can be read out using the serial port (the one which normally interfaces to the PS2/USB-chip).
Optical Mouse cam

Take a look! It would be better if you just blend AdSense color, size, and placement into your content.

Now, how easy would it be to raise that 1% to 2%? That’s not a very big jump by any means. Quite likely, you could jump to 2% or even 3% by doing nothing more than tweaking your AdSense colors, ad size and/or placement. Little tweaks. Tiny tweaks. Nothing major at all.
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 is a way for earning money from your website. However, it would be a problem if your website has more than one person for generating content. This is a kind of a conflict of intrest problem. A workaround is to use channel ID to distinguish contents into groups for each person.

Fortunately, for Drupal 4.6.x, there is adsense.module which supports Revenue Sharing. I then managed to port this feature to CVS so I can use it at howforge.com. You can see the pending issue with my patch at drupal.org or directly download the patch.

If you have to manage your own website, Drupal is the best cadidate  that maximizes its rank on search engines. However, it would be better if you could specify description and keywords meta tags of each page freely.

nodewords.module is the module you want for this case. However, it seems original author of this module don’t have time to actively response to feature requests. My request is to support new forms API of Drupal 4.7.x since I used Drupal 4.7.x right now.

For your information, Priya Jain wrote about Grid Computing in tech primer section of Express Computer.

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A grid is a group of computers, servers and storage, which is virtualised as one large computing system across an enterprise. Grids unleash latent power that is not being used at any point in time. They can radically accelerate compute-intensive processes. Grid computing involves applying the resources of many computers in a network to a single problem at the same time—usually a scientific or technical problem that requires a large number of computer-processing cycles or access to huge amounts of data. Grid computing uses software to divide and farm out pieces of a program to as many as several thousand computers. A number of corporations, professional groups and university consortia have developed frameworks and software for managing grid computing projects.
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Pune based Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) Director General S Ramakrishnan today said the C-DAC would establish ’grid computing system’ at 14 locations in 40 institutions during current year.