http://www.nicholascurcuru.com This is my personal blog & a site for my family to keep tabs on me. It is a large skyscraper but it is set to text only at the moment. I know there are some color issues am working on fixing the color template in adsense. Do you think having image ads would help? Have any suggestions?
I would suggest not to have adsense on a site visited by people you know. Otherwise, if it was a normal site with unknown visitors, your ad placement is not optimal at all and should get you about 1% CTR.