You shag one lousy sheep!
I find myself thinking of the old joke about Sheepshagger John:
A man goes into a pub in a small town and, for whatever reason, gets introduced to the clientele. There’s Farmer Jack, Barman Jim, Maurice “Dancer” and Sheepshagger John. After a few pints, the visitor’s curiosity gets the better of him and he asks John what’s with the nickname.
“See this pub?” asks John, "I built it, but they don’t call me Pubbuilder John? I’m the local doctor, I saved Barman Jim’s life once when he choked on a peanut, but they don’t call me Lifesaver John. Every year, I supply a huge Christmas tree for the village green, but the don’t call me Christmas Tree John.
“But you shag one lousy sheep…”
Why am I reminded of this?
Well, it’s like this.
I’ve written Perl 6 Summaries, a long article about women in Open Source and a rave review of Spiers and Boden’s Songs CD.
But I write one article about the dreadfulness of Digital Rights Management and every single Adsense ad on the front page is DRM related. Worse, they’re ads from people who think DRM is spiffy. I’ve made what seem like endless visits to my adsense settings page adding more and more advertisers to my ‘No! Don’t show that ad!’ filter, or whatever it is Google call it.
I’ve probably just made it worse.
At least with the DRM ads I can see the relationship though. The ads for the Perl Six summaries seem to be about C++ and Java, which seems odd. However, there is (possibly) light at the end of the tunnel. Google are about to introduce ‘advertise on this site’ links to their Adsense adverts. Hopefully, once they start appearing there will be a flood of advertisers who want to reach the kind of people who read my summaries. Or maybe they won’t, but I live in hope.
