Get paid to blog?

I applied for Googles Adsense program yesterday, got accepted, and now I’m in the process of augmenting my WordPress theme to add Googles little text-only adds to the sidbar of my page.

Hopefully at some point this will provide returns, and I will actually make a few bucks for blogging.

But, to optimize the money I’m getting, I need to post more content that gains attention on search engines.

So, one way to do that I think is to add more technical stuff. By that I mean write down what I’m doing in my side projects in a more technical manner (and hide them behind an LJ-cut on the Livejournal version). Open up the source to some things I’m doing, including some work stuff that I’ve been up to in VBA (It isn’t anything too special or proprietary, so that is probably OK). Also, I’ve been thinking about some fun electronics projects to do, one of which is a personal audio amplifier for headphones based on a board I can get for cheap at work. Another is a linux project I want to throw together, which would involve setting up Samba as a primary domain controller, and then using the login credentials to also work with a wireless access point which would use WPA2 with Radius passthrough as the encryption method. This box would also be a small-scale file server.

Besides that does anyone have any good ideas for “How-to’s”, “FAQ’s”, or product reviews I could write about technical stuff that you haven’t seen a good guide for online already?

I’m open for ideas…let me know what you think.