Some regular readers of this site may have noticed that some content has started to disappear. It's not actually. I'm in the process of making dividing the content amongst four other sites so that each site is more coherent.

To determine where the content is to be placed, this is my rule of thumb:  read more »

We've recently launched Sustained Magazine, and have been using Google Sitemaps and Analytics to figure out ways to boost the traffic.

It's worked really well. We even have people as far away as Lamarsh visiting the site (see below). By my calculation, I'd say every resident of Lamarsh visited three times. Click image below for a clearer version which will open in a new window.

Note: this issue disappeared for the author, after upgrading to Adobe Reader 8.1.

I was being driven around the bend trying to resolve a problem with Acrobat Reader 8 in that it kept crashing within 15 seconds of launching (scroll down to read more).

Eventually, in the Adobe forums, I found that others were having the same problem and it was due to the update plug-in. Most likely some sort of privileges problem, according to another poster in the forum.

The solution given by people in the forum was to choose to remove the Update plug-in by removing it from the application's package. However, I found that there was an extra pane in the Get Info dialog that allows you to add, remove, enable or disable plug-ins. I think it's a more sophisticated way to deal with it.

Like an electrical connector from a Liverpudlian council estate....shameless plug:

My MR2 Turbo here 

Someone please buy my car, I used it to fight crime for the past 6 years but now it's time to move on (I don't fit into my tigerprint spandex pants anymore).  read more »

I thought I'd tell you all about my barber....Dave.

Since moving to the south, I've seen a sharp rise in the cost of everyday items like hair removal, air, swiss muesli etc. I refuse to go to some 'hair salon' and pay a 5 figure sum for some college dropout who's called himself Miguel to remove hair from my head. As a result of my pikeyism© my hair is getting quite long and I'm starting to look like the mushroom character from MarioKart.

Which brings me on to Dave...I'm waiting to get my haircut by Dave. Now in my home town there are many barber shops (and brothels, some offering both services) but I've always had my hair cut by Dave. His shop (imaginatively titled 'Dave's') was like the land that time forgot. Every few years he'd pay some dodgy polish character to re-decorate, but the atmosphere was always the same. For £2 you could get a cut and blow (dry), be told why we should keep immigrants out and how the french are garlic sniffing reprobates by a chap who looked like an obese Christopher Walken..while all this was going on you got to watch a pirate video. I remember one time, he got on the subject of some middle eastern country...this got him so upset, he took 3 hours to cut my hair and I managed to watch the whole of BraveHeart.  read more »