Selling out

I've got no problem selling out, in fact I'd like to do it more often. Anyway, in the quest to gain some extra geld I've thrown in my lot with Google ads, hence the adverts above. I'm not allowed to ask you to click on them to increase any funds that might come my way. Anyway, any complaints feel free to add a comment or seven.
On a completely unrelated note, I've been looking at iTunes and the play counter. The fact that it only adds a play count when the end of the track is played is a bit odd in my book, personally I'd look for more than 50% of the track being played and use that. But I'm not a programmer. It does mean that if I want to skip the track or there's a bit at the end that I don't listen to, band banter for example, if I don't want an unrepresentatively low score on the play count I have to pan the play slide to the very end, leaving about 2 seconds worth of the track.
Yes it's a minor thing but there's not that much going on in my world right now.
In the news, thinking about Google, they've asked journalists to always use the capitol G when writing the name and to refer to web searching as web searching, not "googling". As mentioned on the radio, you might think that this was an odd thing, as the prevalence of google in people's minds and as a term for searching would result in people only using google, not AltaVista, yahoo or whomever, and yeah, I only use AltaVista for searches that I know google will give duff results for, or if google has been "corrupted" by excess links to a particular site. The reasoning behind the Californian companies request is that if a word becomes so used to describe a generic thing or action, it looses it's copyright protection to a degree. Most people think of Hoover for this, as a brand name and as a verb, but escalator is a better example, as it was originally a brand name and has now come to be generic for all constructions of type. Personally I think they're peeing into the wind somewhat, the engine and it's impact on society is too great. I can remember using it in the late 90s at uni and it took one use to replace all non technical search engines as the tool of choice. Even my mum, who's 60 and just getting to grips with the net, uses google, or at least knows what it is and what it does.
Oddly enough though, the spell checker on Blogger didn't recognise any forms of google, but did know AltaVista. Then again, it doesn't recognise Blogger or the English spelling of recognise either.
Still waiting to see if I've passed my forecaster training. Should know today, tomorrow at the latest. Gulp.