Web Ads

A few times in the last few months, I've thought to actually go out of my way and click on a Web Ad. In every case, the web ad was non-traditional and insisted on doing something which got it blocked. Seems that web ads would be much more successful if they didn't demand dumb user behavior... Middle Click In all latest version graphical web browsers, a middle button mouse click is available to open the link in a new tab....

15 Jun 2008 · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink

Switching This Blog to Self Hosting

Long story. History Since 2009, I have been using a Google product called G Suite, which has since been renamed to Google Apps for Domains, and most recently renamed to Google Workspace. This service was always free, for me, as I signed up before the free-tier was cancelled in December of 2012. I even bought my wife, Jen, a domain and set is up on G Suite before then (neiher of us could remember which year), as we were just dating at the time....

3 min · Gary Allen Vollink