Michael Kimb Jones

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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That’s right. Some idiot is selling copied Xbox 360 games for £7 a pop (around $15) and using Google to promote this shenanigan. Its a sure fire case of Google ad-words going a tad wrong.