Wow, what an amazing opportunity!

Microsoft, out of the generosity of its corporate heart, is offering people who now create free classified listings the ability to pay for banner ads for the products they're trying to sell through Windows Live Expo. How nice of them. I'm sure that so many of the people trying to unload an old couch, some well-loved 45 RPM records or, you know, a house, have just been waiting for the opportunity to cough up some cash in order to do so. Especially on something with as much value as banner advertising.

I need to go lie down.