I’m a regular visitor to Major Nelsons Blog. If you don’t know who the Major is here is a brief summery taken from his site:

Major Nelson is the Xbox Live gamertag of Larry Hryb. I work at Microsoft under the title of ‘Xbox Live Director of Programming’ in the Xbox Live product group and use this blog as a method to communicate to anyone interested in Xbox and Xbox Live. I launched the blog (and podcasts) in 2004.

As you can see on the site Larry/Major posts info about Xbox Live! marketplace releases and general news around the Xbox 360 and its games, among other things. He also has an excellent podcast which although heavily based around the Xbox 360 and Microsoft gaming covers all areas of gaming.

Regardless of all this however the Major, like many of us, requires some help from Google to pay for hosting bills. This of course can have its downsides and I found it quite amusing when a few moments ago I visited his site and saw this ad:

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You know on the news when the person chairing the edition turns to the camera after divulging 30 minutes of painful and sometimes boring content and says “And finally….” before spouting a nonsense story which is designed to enable the watcher to feel slightly better about the world around them??

Well, BBC News has created a whole new section dedicated to this type of news content, they call it “Also in the news…”

Stories in this new section include:

• Naked riders promote pedal power
• Patient bleeds dark green blood
• Sudan man ‘marries’ goat

and…

• Snake bursts after gobbling gator

There is also a huge video cache showing cute baby polar bears, TV show highlights and further ‘cute’ news. Read the rest of this entry…