Well, portent.org finally escaped from the Google sandbox with a reasonable PR of 4. That took 5 months. Personality-tests.eu though got hacked and taken down by the hosting company. After zapping the blog (which is where the emails originated), it’s back up with just one lost day. It was running an older version of Pivot so hopefully it was a problem in that version and not a “feature” of Pivot.

Clearly I had tempted fate by writing a review of Pivot a few days ago and for my hubris got a metaphorical slap. That also happened to me in 1995 when I was doing a bit of part time private hire driving in Blackpool for C-Cabs. After doing it for two years, I said to a driver one night “How lucky I was that no one had ever been sick in my car.”. Within a fortnight it happened four times- with four different passengers at different times. Unbelievable but true. Not an urban legend or apocryphal tale – it really happened to me. It does really make you wonder sometimes…