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Those of you who visit this site regularly may have noticed that there have been changes. 

To begin with, my site was attacked and used to send out several thousand spam e-mails overnight, which was rather unfortunate, and so I was required to make urgent adjustments.  I upgraded the publishing platform to the latest version.  That change reduced my site to a pale imitation of its former self, with all my design work stripped away (left, for example, with the bog-standard Wordpress blue header - nice). 

After curling into a ball and cursing the world (and myself for not backing up the site), I decided to embark on a new design direction.  Thus I adopted a new three-column theme.  The middle and right-hand columns have articles and links displayed as before, while the first features Google advertising.  Yes, I have decided to monetise content.  At first, you will start to see relevant Google AdWords, eBay and Amazon advertising on the site.  Once I am happy with the placements, I will invite local advertisers to promote their products and services.  I have no plans to introduce paid-for content (this is a blog, after all, not the FT!).

My weekly digest sendouts have dwindled as of late, and for this I apologise.  I have therefore decided to offers digests on a monthly basis.  Regular updates can be received via my RSS feed.

Anything else, I will let you know!