Asymptomatic

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Reconsidering Advertising

A while ago I added Google AdSense ads to the site after asking if anyone cared if I did so. People had different opinions and I tried to keep the ads low key and still render a profit. I should receive my first check from Google soon, a full 10 months after I signed up for the service. Admittedly, I only recently added the ads to this site (had been showing them on the much less trafficked RedAlt), say within the past couple months.

But the AdSense ads aren’t covering but a fraction of my costs, and I would really like them to do more than take up all that room and make a measly 10-50 cents per day.

Today in the News

The secret of Deepthroat is revealed! It turns out that Deepthroat (of Watergate fame, as reported by Woodward and Bernstein) has been uncovered as W. Mark Felt, who was the second or third in command at the FBI during the Nixon administration. Ah, that era always arouses some nostalgia for the classic days of spies. Callsigns, passphrases, miniature cameras, and hidden tape recorders - weren’t those times the best?

Hold the phone! Paris is marrying… Paris? It seems that Paris Hilton is engaged to a guy named Paris Latsis. What amuses me most about this news story is how it completely glosses over the two Paris’ marrying each other. Paris! And it’s a city, too!