What's with that NavBar?

First a banner ad, and now a Blogger navbar on the top of my blog? What's with the clutter?

Although I'm not excited about the look of having Blogger's navbar on top of my page, I'm giving it a try for one reason - exposure. You'll notice the "NEXT BLOG" button on the right-hand side of it. If you click there, you'll be taken to the next random blog that has a navbar. Likewise, I'll get new visitors by people clicking on someone else's "NEXT BLOG" button. In fact, since I added it an hour ago, I've already had nearly half a dozen new visitors coming from other blogs. Most of them will click right on by, but maybe some of them will find my musings worth coming back for a second look.

As for the ads, I decided -"What the heck? Why not?" If a whole bunch of people click on them, maybe someday I'll see some cash from it. And they're kinda amusing... since they're provided by Google, they're dished out based on the content of the page they're on. In other words, by looking at the ads Google serves up for my blog pages, you get a (quite often humorous) insight into what the search engine thinks I'm blogging about. Try clicking back through my archives, and you'll see what I mean. =)