We do tend to have a fairly Microsoft-centric crowd here, so we post the news we feel is most relevant to our audience. Yes, some of the site we link to have annoying ads (and it's not getting any better I'm afraid - it's a sad industry trend). However, if we cut out every news site that had ads then there'd be nothing to post. We're always happy to have our readers send in their news items. How about you provide us some suggestions[^]? cheers Chris Maunder