There are a lot of books about drawing and it would be nice to have a way to link to them. For that end I’ve been looking for a widget that will automatically link to interesting Amazon products. I finally found one.
The only problem with this widget is that it creates context links. Those links that give you a picture of the page that you could go to, if you hover for 400 ms above the link.
I really hate those kind of links.
So I will be testing this one for a while to see how annoying it is.
I’ve send an email to Amazon requesting a box for my sidebar. Hopefully they’ll respond and create one.
(Still waiting for Amazon’s spider :) )
In Dutch we have a proverb about looking past the point of ones nose. Meaning that you should look around before you start making comments.
In this case it applies to me.
It turns out that Amazon does have the kind of ad box that I was looking for. Only in there wisdom they gave it a Japanese name. Since my Japanese isn’t all that good I missed it.
You’ll find a little blue box at the bottom of my middle column. At this moment it’s showing an ad for a Bruce Springsteen CD but in a few hours it should changes to something that relates to the content of this site.
Amazon seems to think that people either want a long and wide ad or a short and narrow ad. I wanted one that is as wide as the column but not very long, but that isn’t available.
It’s almost impossible to receive money from Amazon if you’re not in the USA. Amazon charges $15 per $100 for the check and last time I checked my bank charged 45 guilder – about $20 – to cash out a dollar check.
I only wanted to offer one or two books as a service to the reader.
Oh well. It’s at the end of the column. If you don’t need it you’ll probably won’t even see it.
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