A site I scan daily (busy forum, lots of members, lots of SEO dreck therein) occasionally pulls in one of the “even-seamier than gaming the SEs” sorts of folks, in this latest case a “gentleman” who wants to ditch the new Yahoo/Geocities ads on his “free site”. He was fairly snappish when told in a reasonably gentle manner that he couldn’t just decide to “go around” the ads - that that’s part of what makes Geocities etc. “free”. When it was pointed out to him that he’d agreed to this when he clicked “I agree” on the TOS page, he said basically - no one reads those - as if that abrogates the legalities and liabilities!
What part of “no, that’s illegal according to the agreement you made with Geocities” did he not understand?
Overall, I’m planning an “umbrella” for my other sites. “Vkaryl” has turned out to be an “identity” I identify with (hrm…. well, anyway…. it’s true!), and consolidating under that cognomen seems reasonable, and will save money (always a big thing for my husband - retirement isn’t cheap, you know!)
So I’m wondering what other functionality I might consider here. And I do NOT mean ads. Not under any circumstances. I don’t DO ads…. and I don’t do SITES that do ads. When I want something, I find it without ANY dependence on ads which people purportedly put up to “pay for their website”. Baloney…. most ads are put there simply to MAKE MONEY so the person with the site doesn’t have to work at a “real job”…..
I did mention that I’m opinionated, did I not? Well, if I failed to enter that caveat before, consider it done now.
I occasionally observe that I seem to be the only person most anywhere who really LIKES winter. Others complain about the gloom, the snow, the cold, the fact that they can’t go anywhere and do anything, the lack of sun.
I LIKE it this way. It can storm all it wants, can be cloudy forever. If I never saw the sun again, it would be too soon. Anything over 70 is FAR too warm for me, and Goddess forfend it gets into the 90s! I don’t care to “tan”, I don’t like to swim (well, the ocean’s different - they might as well not have invented swimming pools though!), and as far as longer days, who cares? I’m not essentially an outdoors-interested individual, the horses and hunting being the only outdoor-ish things I care about.
So send all your winters my way. I’m happy to return the favor with summer….
