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As per uberblogger Robert Scoble’s idea that bloggers should have full disclosure, here’s a quick word on the appearance of “sponsored links” on the sidebar: I was already using Google AdSense, and still do so, but these firms offered to pay for those links, which was just about enough to cover maintenance of my webhosting. I can’t imagine that this would ever affect my blogging (I don’t get any more if you click on those links), but thought I’d let everyone know, to avoid any possible ideas about conflicts of interest. Hope that’s okay with readers. Now back to our regularly scheduled programming…