Steve's birthday will be this Thursday. Happy birthday!
I say for a present, we all make a mental note to click his adsense links more often. But not excessively, that will get his account banned.
I guess Steve will have to delete the emphasized text when he come back, i use Adsense in all of my blogs, have read their TOS, and trust me these guys are tough on this, even if you don't encourage visitors clicking, you may not allow any kind of this enocuragement in your site and do your utmost to delete it.
Personally, i'd pay for Steve's podcasts..but i beilive that by doing the quoted suggestion we're only harming him.
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