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I used to have a blog here with some solid history, sage advice, musings over many years' visits to E3 (The Electronic Entertainment Expo), and other random thoughts.

Unfortunately I tried to monetize my blog by letting Google display ads on it.

After much frustration, I a software engineer by trade could not make their automated algorithms accept my blog for display of ads not for content violation or lack of content or lack of longevity, but rather configuration issues that the automated system was loathe to elucidate upon.  To make it worse the configuration itself is all automated and Blogger is owned and run by none other than Google.

I am not so naive as to believe all the products owned by a single entity should work together, but if you're going to hype the fact that it's all magically pre-configuring, you should at least make sure it works and be willing to take bug reports for those who it does not.

So I tore it all down in an attempt to reset the machine.  Did it work?  I don't know yet.

Realistically such impressions would likely be from bots anyway.  If you're reading this, you've reached a really rarely used part of the Internet. 

My hat is off to you, bold explorer.  May you find all manner of thing both interesting and obscure.

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