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"You registered a full domain name just for this story???" Uh, yeah. They're, like, only 15 bucks a year you know? So what the heck. I figured I'd hopefully make 15 bucks from the Google ads. What surprised me the most was that I thought of the domain name, decided to check it out and it was available! Anyone who has ever tried to think up a domain name will know how amazing that is. And for those who think this site is whimsical - have a look at this one. (And for those people who don't understand that, you just *have* to go and look at Strongbad's Trogdor email straight away!) Google adsense - the best thing since sliced bread! When I first thought about putting up this story, google adsense didn't exist. I just thought I'd put it up for fun. Of course, I never got around to it. In the meantime I thought about maybe putting up links to amazon as part of their affiliate program and earning a bit of money that way. Then Google came out with adsense - now there is a great idea. I can publish something like this story, and google will automatically find the most appropriate ads to display alongside it. How cool is that? In effect they have solved the whole micropayment problem! I don't have to beg people to send me any money to help with my bandwidth costs - the advertising takes care of it. So then I got motivated to put the page up (and I was procrastinating about doing some other stuff.) Here's some more info about Google adsense.

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