Exactly 4 years ago today, I wrote up some reviews of Iain M. Banks’ Culture books. As an experiment, I signed up for an Amazon Associates account and linked each of the book covers to Amazon’s page selling it. While doing my customary yearly dig through hundreds of unread emails, I find Amazon Associates has been chugging away sending me monthly reports ever since. No great surprises though: I have earned a grand total of £1.32.

Amazon won’t send me a penny until my total referral fees have reached £25, so by my calculations, I’m not due anything until 2083. Check here for updates on this story.

I tried again in 2006 with Adsense, with equal success. I have two theories:

1. My blog is so amazingly on-topic and useful that people arriving here have absolutely no need to click on anything to go anywhere else, including adverts.
2. Some things just aren’t pretty enough for whorin’