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Tim Bray: You Can Get Paid For This.

As of mid-afternoon on the last day of the month my revenue exceeds my typical monthly hosting/bandwidth costs by well over US$500. For reasons I’ll discuss below this is quite a bit more than I’d expect in a typical month, but I’m pretty sure the revenue will stay well ahead of the expenses. Summary: I’m not going to get rich or buy a new car with Google Ads, but turning ongoing from an expensive hobby to a sideline revenue source feels good.

This whole AdSense thing feels a little too easy; I splice in a few lines of Javascript and I’m suddenly seeing cashflow.

Not that I get as many visitors as Tim Bray does, but for the first time I'm seriously considering putting Google ads on my site. I'd never considered it before because... well, I don't want to put ads on my site! If I was working, I'd never consider it. But I'm not, and I have no money.

If there's a shot putting Google ads on my site could help me pay a chunk of my credit card bills every month, I'm compelled to consider doing it. If anyone has any opinions, please share. Danke.

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XML: not for humans

Great quote from Guido van Rossum: "XML wasn't designed to be edited by humans on a regular basis."

True.

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