jmadigan.net: Now with ads, search, and photos

Few quick notes about three changes and enhancements to the site in case you didn’t notice.

Item #1: Google Ads. I added some Google Adsense ads to the site, so feel free to click them repeatedly. Or not. They’re not really big money makers (I’ve run them for several months on Selection Matters and only made $25), but if I can make enough to offset the cost of hosting, I’ll be happy. It’s actually pretty funny to look at what Google comes up with when trying to pick ads based on the content of the page. The individual entry for The Five People You Meet in Heavan in the Books category, for example, is all about dating services. And many of the Sam’s Story individual entries have ads for dog food sweet potato recipies. Weird.

Item #2: Search. The “Search the site” tool has been over there on the right since I relaunched v2.0 of this site, but now it’s, um, working. So if you want to search for all entries related to World of Warcraft, for example, you can do that.

Item #3: Photographs. I added a photography category to the blog, which contains any posts about pictures of things that aren’t Samantha. I also included in this category all of the old “Picture of the Day” posts that I did back when I was doing that. Beware, though, that because Movable Type (stupidly) doesn’t do pagination for archives, that’s a huge page on the other side of that link. You can always click on the Photos Index from the menu at the top of the page. I just wanted somewhere to stick the Pic of the Days and the blog posts about photography.

That’s it. Enjoy!

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