I've decided to put an adsense pod on the site. Please don't misinterprate my intentions! If not a single person clicks an ad, no skin off my nose. If, however, I mange to break the 100 dollar mark, the family is going to Chuckee Cheese! Seriously, it gives me a break given that it's winter time in a REALLY small house ;). So, don't click if you don't want. I'm not trying to make a living off of these ads, but opinions are welcome.
How some people use them is not cool, plastered all over, to tightly blended into content, a website of NO VALUE with ads all over.
The 100-$200 / month step might take time, but it's easily attainable. I would not expect much from a technical oriented blog though. the visitors of anything tech related sites block ads either mentally or with software / plug ins.
My best $$ site is consumer level - my worst is tech.
so why do i have the ads up at all? same as you. if i break $100, it's a nice dinner out with the wife with relatively little effort put into it.
If you're interested in experiencing adsense, start a new www on a topic that you truly enjoy that is not tech related. I say give it a go.