And then, there were ads. Did I sell out? Bet yer ass I did.

I’m hoping they don’t break up the flow of the site – and I’m still debating on adding them to the RSS feed – but the truth is that TypePad costs money… so does this domain. And the two others that flow back here. It would be nice to babble and offer tech tips without losing money each year. At one point I was hoping the donations to the Software cache would support the blog, but that hasn’t panned out – at least it paid for the spell checker control in SharpMT.

Besides, the ads are targeted on the blog content, so maybe they’ll even offer some good links: call it an experiment. If I cover my costs before EOY or if I get bored with it – or if I get tarred and feathered on campus tomorrow! – I’ll pull’m back. The nice thing about the ads is that they are lightweight in the HTML Templates.

Yay me!