Texas Calculatem and Poker Office Blog

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Poker is not going well. Did more NL last night and lost my $10 buyin. I really should just stick to the limit tables where I atleast have a consistent record. But as I've already said, I've gotten into a habit of just sitting wherever Juice happens to be.

Google banned my Texas Calculatem campaign. Despite their terms and conditions stating

"Advertising is not permitted for online casinos, sports books, bingo, and affiliates with the primary purpose of driving traffic to online gambling sites."

and the fact that my blog doesn't fit there, they decided to ban me anyway. On top of that they didn't bother answering my other queries. Am not happy, but I guess the support staffs' performance is measured based on how many queries they respond to rather than quality of response (which is virtually impossible to measure), so I did the only thing possible and followed the feedback link in their response email. I doubt it'll get me anywhere. Very frustrating. They're almost as bad as NTL who are a load of shite. If you ever have to call NTL and get picked up by their Indian call centre just demand to be put through to Ireland. The NTL guys from India are nothing but a bunch of time wasters.

So my only other alternative is to try to do make websites that are non-gambling related. Not sure how that fits in with this blog, but it's mine so I can say what I want. In terms of content my next site(s) will contain a variety of focused articles containing PPC ads or selling affiliate products. If any of you have any recommendations on non-gambling stuff I can try to flog please let me know. A content management system will be required to manage the large number of pages I'll be hosting. Have managed to install Drupal at http://drupal.financialcharting.com/ (username juice, password juice) for test purposes and it looks OK. I guess the next step is to work out what I want to put there.

Have also tried that wikimedia thing at this place. It is a nice idea but lacks content control. Also, the discuss feature is open to total abuse. The originial Wikipedia also suffers from excessive pretensiousness with many authers/moderators/whatever you call them believing that they are the guardians of all knowledge. I wouldn't want to encourage such behaviour.