Sponsors!
I’m excited to announce that I’ve (yet again) sold my soul to devil and agreed to put some sponsored links on my blog! The sponsors were very nice to work with and allowed me to clearly mark every ad with a fieldset:
The following posts now have sponsors:
- Me vs. Vista - this is kind of a whiny post about Vista, but it really was quite frustrating to realize what kind of a beast I’m going to have to support for years to come.
- Feisty Fawn Update - I’m happy to report wireless is still working flawlessly on that IBM Thinkpad T30 with Ubuntu Feisty Fawn. In fact Ubuntu handles it much better than the flaky drivers IBM provided for Windows XP (and XP doesn’t support it out of the box).
- ATI Proprietary Driver Annoyance - Since writing that post I’ve found out most of the Linux community is frustrated with ATI’s terrible Linux support. I suggest simply living with the open source drivers or buying an nVidia card.
- Lost in a Sea of Web Frameworks - I’m still lost in that sea. I’m currently using CherryPy for one project and Drupal for two others. I guess I still haven’t been able to get PHP out of my life!
- Hurling Chairs - This is an ancient post about Steve Ballmer throwing a chair. Still makes me laugh. I’m a bit harsh in the article though… I have a feeling someday I’ll regret making fun of bald white males.
- My Thoughts on Consumer Electronics - The article I link to still makes me laugh.
- IT Horror Story - So is it stealing to get sponsored for a somebody else’s story? “Steve” — I owe you a beer… or root beer if you’d prefer.
For anyone concerned, here are some advertising schemes I’ll never buy into:
- Pay to post — I will always clearly mark what is an ad and what isn’t.
- Those stupid little pop-up JavaScript ads on words. I hate those.
- Pop-ups — but only because they’re soooooo 1999.
However, if anyone would like to sponsor a Punch-the-Monkey-to-Win-an-XBox, I’d be more than happy to put it on every post. I have a room full of xboxes from those ads…
Tags: navel gazing, Personal