I was contacted last week by the good folks at CrispAds, inquiring as to whether I'd be interested in having them place ads on this site. I was frankly a little surprised -- I'm averaging about 4,000 page views per month, which is more than I would have dreamt of when I started the blog -- but apparently there might be people interested in advertising to my paltry readership. (By "paltry" I mean of course the first definition, small, negligible, trifling, rather than the second: cheap, shoddy, contemptible. Not that they're mutually exclusive.)
So I agreed. Scroll down and on the left sidebar you will see 160x600px worth of prime blog real estate just begging to be filled, for the low, low price of $20 (US) per month.
It is a downright bargain, you cheap, shoddy, contemptible potential advertisers. For I have, in the grand capitalist tradition, undercut my nearest rival by $5.
Then when I have crushed the competition and driven them from the field, I will . . . raise my prices. Bwahahahahaha.
That's the medium-to-long-term plan. In the meantime, I'm going to have to convert this site to a three-column display with the ads on the right. I don't want to breakup the look of the left sidebar, and it's only fair to advertisers (and also to my financial interest) that the ads are as high up on the page as possible.
I have a very limited aptitude for working with HTML and CSS, though, so it could be a while until I figure it out. Otherwise, that 160x600px blue monolith will probably sit unsold, silently mocking me. Maybe I could make it or something.