For almost the entirety of the existence of this site, I have abstained from running any advertising.. with the exception of a brief time when I ran ads to support 9rules.

Lets be clear here, I have no problem with people running ads on thier sites and making money. I am very much in favor of people being rewarded for what they do, in whatever way they decide is important.

For me, that reward was always the conversations and activity that I saw on the site as the years went on. Although that is still the case, things have changed financially for the Czar of SIllyness.

The problem

My lovely wife decided when we discovered she was pregnant, to stay home for an undetermined amount of time. She had been working in Corporate Banking and was fed up as it were. I supported her decision, and so she left her job and we went down to one income. It has been hard at times, but we have managed it.

As costs rise, in conjunction with my son's age rising, we find ourselves having more bills with the same amount of money. Not good.

Getting to the point

All this to say that I will be selling some advertising space in the footer of my site for the next year, to help offset the rising costs at home. I have been working on freelance projects as I can, which has helped but it has effectively ended any contributions to Habari and I just can't stand it anymore. The income from the advertising will allow me to do less side work, and focus more on Habari, which is a good thing.

I just felt like I owed it to some of the people who have been reading this site for years, to explain why the advertising will be showing up. Another side effect is I hope to have much more time to dedicate to writing here, which I have been lax on lately.

This will certainly be interesting.