So as an independent consultant in this tough economy I take projects as they come along, regardless of the content. In this recent instance I took on a adult-oriented content site, Alternative Haven, and had setup a PayPal donation link. Now I had been a PayPal user since way back in 2000 shortly after PayPal sprung into existence in 1999. I was very careful to read the User Agreement and the Acceptable Use Policy and have not had any cause for alarm since then. Between 2000 and 2004 I was receiving payments fairly regularly while I ran a LiveJournal-clone site called UnderGrid Journals, but those payments ceased when the site was taken down in early ’04. Since then it has been used regularly by me to pay for conference tickets and also my wonderful Xen VPS hosting service through VPSFarm.com.

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