Just noticed a huge leap in the Quantcast ratings, from around 8 million to under 3 million. That means I’ve improved my ranking over 5 million places in a week or so.  And that’s all based on your visits to the site, well done you…

Unfortunately this comes on the back of a slight dip in the number of people visiting the site, obviously not enough compelling content at this stage. Must try harder…

Having been reading all the hype in Edge recently about MGS4, which I must note is one of the two games I would consider buying a PS3 for (The other being Burnout: Paradise) I thought I’d dust down my unfinished copy of MGS2: Sons of Liberty…

Now, either I set the difficulty level way too high, or I’m just getting too old for that amount of hand/eye co-ordination. It’s impossible. I’m off to restart in idiot mode, turn it all right down and start again. If that fails then it’s back to something that doesn’t require quite as much grey matter, like Burnout or possibly a bash on Final Fantasy X (something else I haven’t finished…)

Just been going thru some of my old MP3’s and I’ve finally figured out why some of them seem so slow.

A few years ago I went thru them and picked out some of my faves, then I ran them thru Audacity to speed them up by about 20%.  That’s why they sound so slow to me when I hear them on the radio.  It’s taken me ages to figure out what the difference was…

As an aside, if you’re in need of a free audio tool, for playing with, mixing, normalising or just generally playing with your tunes you could do worse than take a look at Audacity.

(The full list of tunes I tweaked is available, for a price, some of them I’m not proud of…)

Aprils Fools Day. Harumph. All across the world in tv newsrooms and newspaper offices, in radio studios and in front of PCs yesterday, people were desperately scrabbling to come up with something vaguely amusing…

As a result, with so much eratz news about the joke wears a little thin. Emperors new clothes thin. What annoyed me even more was my RSS reader. Of the 40 or so posts I got yesterday, 38 were bollocks, and the other two I can’t take seriously in case they’re nonsense as well….

This one looked the most plausible of the lot but I’m just not sure. Is it? Isn’t it? You decide

Rant over. jpf out.

Just spent the past couple of hours rewriting one of the posts that seems to be getting a trickle of hits from Google. It’s now a mini how-to, rather than the one liner ‘ this is a test’ it was earlier. Hopefully this should be a bit more useful to people searching for how to get WordPress to do timed publishing…

Although, having tried the search terms that are bringing people to that particular post, you have to wade through a lot of results before you get to my article. Frankly, if people haven’t found what they’re looking for by then, I doubt I’ll be able to help them.

So it might have been an evening well spent, or it might not, all I can do now is keep an eye on the logs and let you know if it was worthwhile.