Cool. The Joy of Text (Ads). I swore they’d be launched today. It’s already been way too long since OSDN pulled the plug, and my wife is starting to get awfully worried about the bills. So there I was last night, around 10 o’clock, having just finished a twelve hour day writing the credit card billing code. I announced a Text Ad test period on #K5. And then the lights went out. I mean, literally, the power went out. The foghorns blew and the wind howled, and inside the house, it got eerily quiet with no whirring little case fans. But was I daunted? Did I curse this ill fate? No, not I. I dug out my headlamp, fired up the laptop, plugged it into the phone jack, and got back to work. It was a very Bruce Sterling moment. The upshot of all of this is that Text Ads are finally here. [kuro5hin.org]
Cool. The Joy of Text
