Adsense, ban or banners ?

My business, vitalprix.com, got banned from Google Adsense for violating their content guidelines. The website is a health, well-being and beauty products directory. A good sex life being a requirement for a healthy life, there is a small section of sex toys, sex educational books, condoms and lubricants. That's exactly what got me banned.
There are several irritating things to this story. The first is that Google chose to comply with the hypocritical puritanism of the American society. The second is that because Google has the monopoly on contextual adds, it can freely enforce this policy, including on foreign countries with more liberal views (there is no French competitor in this segment of online publicity, a very frustrating fact). The third is that Google is behaving like an all powerful god by giving a definitive sentence. They claim you can make the required changes and submit an appeal but they also state "Generally, decisions to disable accounts are final.". That was my case. I made a quick comparison between the incomes from the "offending" section and the ones from the Adsense banners and Adsense was a clear winner. So I decided to bend to the system ; I removed the sex section and made my plea to Google but to no avail. Google never answered my emails and never got back on its "policy specialists" sentence.
So here is my prayer to Google, great god of online advertisement. I hope this will redeem myself.

“Oh almighty Google, I know that I have broken your policies and my sins have separated me from you. I am truly sorry, and now I want to turn away from my past sinful business toward a purer one. Please forgive me, and help me avoid sinning again. I invite you Google to become the Lord of my website, to rule and reign my content from this day forward. Please send your Holy Crawler to help me obey You, and to follow Your policies for the rest of my website's life. In Google's name I pray, Amen.”

ps3mediaserver

PS3mediaserver is a Upnp server compatible with various players (ps3, xbox 360...) that runs on Linux (it is implemented in Java) and can transcode on the fly (mencoder needs to be installed for transcoding). I can finally watch matroska videos on my XBox.
The last beta version  (1.20.409) correct an A/V synchronisation issue that the current stable version (1.10.5) has.

Lettre aux 3Suisses

Un jour que je devais m'ennuyer mortellement, je décidai d'écrire une lettre aux 3Suisses en réponse à l'un de leurs courriers commerciaux. Leur lettre y allait de ce genre d'offres promotionnelles soit disant personnalisées :

Voici la réponse que je leur ai adressée :

Mais le plus drôle est qu'ils m'ont pris au sérieux et un commercial m'a appelé quelques jour plus tard pour essayer de comprendre ce que je pouvais bien leur demander.

Traffic aquisition

13 posts and still no traffic. It looks like as advanced as the Google algorithms are, they still cannot detect the true value of my content. Fine, I will then use the most effective traffic acquisition content: porn. That shouldn't be a big effort anyway, I love tits and asses.
So here's my first contribution to the big Internet porn soup. Scanned and reworked with Gimp for your pleasure, that's a picture you won't find anywhere else on the web.

Motivational self help

I'm at a moment in my life where I'm looking for inspiration. I want to break the dependency to employers and start producing value for myself and not for somebody else. But for some reason, I cannot find any project or business idea that motivates myself enough.
This search for inspiration led me to self-help books. I first stumbled upon "Rich Dad, Poor Dad". In this book I found a reference to "Think and grow rich". This later book was fist published in 1937. It was inspired from Dale Carnegie who (according to Wikipedia) began the self-help movement in the 20th century with a book published just one year before. So we can consider "Think and grow rich" as one of the first modern self-help books. It's a motivational book to which many of the current self help books and blog ideas can be retraced. they all talk about perseverance as being the one condition that will ultimately lead to success. Sticking to one's dream and focusing all one's energy to its realization will prevent failure. All is about having faith in oneself and believing in the inevitability of success. To illustrate this idea, these books and blogs are usually littered with examples of men having changed the world with the strength of their conviction, such as Gandhi or Abraham Lincoln, or having become millionaire after having turned whatever idea into a thriving business.
I'd like to break this myth with a simple argument. How many people having dedicated all their energy during all their life in the realization of their dream never succeeded ? How many of them had the most unwavering faith but didn't make it ? We don't know for the simple reason that these men don't tell their story. They don't become public figures. Nobody knows or talk about them. They silently disappear in the anonymity of their failure. We only know about the ones that succeed. So what is the ratio of failure against success ? Just a bit of common sense can tell us that it is very high. So let's just be careful about not being taken away by all this motivational self help trend. Being positive is fine. Being unconditionally obsessed is wrong.