Oh yeah... the point

You ever get so carried away with your rant that you forget your point? Yeah, me neither. It's like this: There is no easy answer. Each of us has to make our own decisions, and more importantly, be willing to live with the consequenses. If I take off the counter link to whatsit, then I directly reduce the income potential of the fine folks who made the code freely available in the first place. So then future purveyors of fine Web sites like this one will have to pay for the ridiculous things. On the other hand, if I leave the link in, then I maintain my implicit endorsement of whatever the whosamawatcha's site may be saying or selling, not to mention giving my electronic thumbs-up of the traffic-for-functionality currency the Web currently runs on. I could change the link, but that's almost worse than removing it. It's way more underhanded and devious. It's changing someone's work without notice, and without changing their byline. I hate it when people do that to my work. Here it is ladies and gentlemen: The moment we've all been waiting for... The Point: Chart your own course. Sail it. Enjoy the scenery. Repeat.