About three years ago, I joined up with Google AdSense.

I installed the software on two sites and sat back to wait for the money to roll in.

I don’t like advertisements at the best of times, and ads on websites can be particularly annoying, but I hoped it would provide a little extra revenue, so I put my principles to one site. 

Sure enough, the ads looked horrible.

After a couple of years, I hadn’t made much more than about a hundred and fifty dollars, so I decided that I would remove the function from one of the sites [Head Rambles], and let the other site tick over.

Of course, the mere trickle of income dried up even more, and I decided recently that the whole thing just wasn’t worth the bother.  I decided to scrap Google AdSense completely so that my conscience could be clear once more.

I went into the other site to disable the plugin.  There wasn’t one.  I realised I must have hard coded the script in, so I went to the source code.  There was no script.  I realised that I had rewritten the site some time ago, and must have forgotten to insert the Google AdSense script into the new code.

So now I have no sites using Google AdSense.  But for some strange reason, there is still a trickle of income.  It’s not much – I made $0.84 last month!  According to Google, the income is from both the original sites, but neither have the code, or are displaying ads.

I don’t know where the cash is coming from, but I won’t bother closing my account.

If nothing else, it amuses me.