I've just learnt how the forms feature of Google Docs can be used to create questionnaires, and created my own questionnaire in five minutes. Here it is:

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.

To recap on the issue I had in my presentation re: "How to turn your Mac into a database-driven web server"

http://www.siliconmeadow.net/mac-as-web-server

at the June meeting, I had got to the stage of installing mySQL and configuring it via the terminal, but I could get no PHP scripts to access the database do to a conflict with "old" password hashing and the "new-style" 4.1.x passwords that mySQL uses.  read more »