The past few days I've been keeping my eye on my Google Analytics to see what my spam-prevention methods have done for cleaning up my search engine placement. It looks to have been 100% successful so far, but even if this doesn't work in the long run, I still have one more trick up my sleeve which I think should be the mother of all solutions (at least on my little blog).

In trawling through the statistics I discovered a couple of things that surprised me. A while ago I wrote a simple explanation (I hope) of feeds, with the idea that if anyone wants to know what they are, they could get a decent version here. Well, hits have been low on this particular article compared to others - forty or so views in the past month. I thought this might be higher. Conversely another article I wrote on solving problems with stuck Macbook DVDs is, over the same time period, attracting heavy traffic, with over eight pages of search engine results from hundreds of problem-stricken Macbook/Macbook Pro owners.

I would hope that Apple might consider that as a reason to readdress the technology in future models. It's not like it's a really awful problem, but it is apparently more widespread than I might have imagined as my website statistics testify.

I'm still working on my CV and it looks like there is a new project in the offing today as well. I'm feeling a little more settled about the situation now.