Society: I Sell Out

Google AdSense - Hopefully you'll notice the Google ads now on the left side of my page. Hopefully, because then you might click on one of the ads. And then I'll get paid! :)

I don't really expect to make any money off of it, I'm doing this more out of curiousity than anything else. Plus, Google doesn't pay me until I've racked up $100 dollars worth of click-thru's, so that might take awhile.

Putting Google AdSense ads on one's sight seems to be in vogue at the moment, and why not? If you make money at it, great! If not, oh well. It took me mere minutes to set it up, so I don't lose anything if it doesn't work out. I am generally leary of corporations and big business, but I try to keep that point of view balanced. It's easy to knock corporations, but right now I'm typing this on a computer made by a company and wearing clothes made by some company and then posting it, for free, on some companies web server. So they can't be all bad. Plus I'm pushing thirty now and I've heard you can't trust anyone over thirty anyway. :)

Sports: Told You So

Patriots - This was yet another time I wish I hadn't been right. Based on their improved playing I changed my prediction that the Patriots would be eliminated in the first round of the playoffs to them being eliminated in the second or third round, which happened when they lost to the Broncos in the second round.

Although things turned out as I predicted I was disappointed anyways. Watching the Patriots gift wrap the game to Denver in the divisional game, I realized the Patriots could have, and should have, won that game. The Patriots were better than the Broncos in all but two stats; turnovers and points (the only stat that matters), the one leading to the other. And of the five turnovers, three, and maybe four, were Patriot mistakes more than they were Denver successes. This is not to say the Broncos didn't deserve to win, because they did. It's more of a knock on the Patriots. They dropped the ball. Denver picked it up.

It became even worse when the Steelers shockingly beat the Colts. Had the Patriots won their game they would have played the Steelers at home, and would have had a good chance at winning, they've beaten the Steelers in the AFC Championship game, in Pittsburg, twice before. But it was all for naught.