You might have noticed that I’ve added a little bit of commercialism to the site with the Google ads over in the left sidebar. Call it an experiment.

I’m considering it highly likely that they will end up being a complete waste of bandwidth, but time will tell. Long story short, sometime last year a search engine at Microsoft went utterly meshuganah and decided that it absolutely had to check my site ten times a second to see if I had made any changes. Result: Redmond ran up $300 on my Internet connection charges. I’m still waiting to find out where I should send my invoice.

Even aside from Microsoft making my life extra miserable, the site costs money and I’m not above a little crass commercialism to cover expenses. I have higher hopes pulling in some bucks from software publishing than from shilling for Google, but every little bit counts. If it doesn’t work out after a few months, you can safely expect me to pull that spot and replace it with something more useful.