Well, I've lost my advertising here. Looks like Google is insistent that I validate my address by entering a PIN that they supposedly sent me. I've requested that it be re-sent twice, and still have not received one. They won't send me another. So I'm trying to deal with their customer service people, who apparently don't exist in any real form.

My address is correct, I check the box a couple of times a week, and still nothing has arrived. They provide no other way for validating your existense.

All of which begs the question of why Google would feel the need to do this in the first place. Don't they realize that their users are -- probably more than anybody else -- unlikely to do much snail-mail at all? Personally I don't even check the box most days of the week. I've gotten to the point where everything is electronic. Except, apparently, Google's mechanism for validating my existence.

For a little guy like me whose ad revenues basically pay for the hosting and not much else, it's sort of a waste to have to deal with it. I may just remove ads altogether, or see if there's some other solution out there. In the meantime enjoy the Google PSAs.

-btc