Yeah, I'm not a fan of the expanding ones either, I'll contact my guy and see if we can get them off the rotation.
For the record, please please please dont use Adblock (Basti, I'm looking in your direction.) While you may not want the ads supporting multi national conglomerates from appearing on these pages, until we find another source of constant funding, we *need* them (and I really mean *need*.) Adblock defeats the purpose and if you want to support the site, you'll not use it.
I'm not a big 'ad' guy - I just need to make sure that at the end of the month, the giant hosting bill is paid from somewhere other than my own personal income.