Northern Rock vs Barlcays Bank

I've watched with interest, the media frenzy surrounding the Northern Rock's decision to get emergency funding from the Bank of England last week due to a cashflow problem. The reason I've watched with interest is that since the story broke and the media basically decimated the Northern Rock by over coverage of the story and making it sound like they had done something the other banks hadn't done, therefore creating a fear factor in the general public; I spent the whole time yelling at the telly asking why this kind of coverage hadn't been given to Barclays Bank when it TWICE went to the Bank of England in August for emergency funding.

Barclays bank had borrowed £314 million to settle a loan earlier in August and then £1.6 billion later in the month. http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/banking_and_finance/article2358155.ece
Now, were Barclays just clever in how they explained away the need for these 2 loans within a month or are they seen to be such a large creditable instituion that the media 'let them off'.

The banks have all announced huge profits in the billions in the last couple of years, have kept interest rates to savers low and spent billions on takeover deals etc. So are they actually any better tahn any 'Joe Blogg's' member of the public who has made money, spent too much and forgotten to keep reserves for a rainy day. No they are not. But it's public money they are all borrowing just now and it is the public who wil pay again at the end of the day by not being allowed the credit facilities to sort their own mess out while the banks just trun cap in hand to the BOE.

Who ever said it was a fair world.

Happy Birthday !

To the QE2 and Me
Both 40 today !

But for some reason, I haven't made the news ........ d'oh .... lol

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/7003848.stm

QE2 back on Clyde after 40 years

In Pictures: QE2 The QE2 has marked the 40th anniversary of its launch by returning to the stretch of river where it was built.
The liner, which has been on a celebratory tour, will be given a gala reception at Greenock, on the Clyde.
It is the world's most travelled liner, having notched up 5.6 million nautical miles while carrying 2.5 million passengers.
The vessel was launched from the John Brown shipyard in Clydebank on 20 September, 1967.
It berthed at Ocean Terminal, Greenock, on Thursday and at 1428 BST the ship's whistle will blow to mark the exact moment of its launch
About 100 workers involved in the construction of the QE2 have been invited as guests of honour.
The QE2 will be delivered to Dubai in November 2008, where it will cease its role as an ocean-going passenger vessel.
It will be refurbished and transformed into a luxury floating hotel.

Stream24-7 - 91,000 hit's in week one!

Stream24-7, launched last week, powered by Endeavors Technologies, Appexpress has had a great first week by just relying on 'Viral Marketing'

A note from their site:

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Wow! What a week!
21/08/2007

Hi Well the site has been up and running for a week now and what a week it has been!

This week we have had people from as far afield as Brazil and Australia comment on the usefulness of the site and mentions on many blogs and online articles. Just to give you some idea of the success of the site, some stats for the first week are:

Over 91,000 hits to the site!!!
Over 1,300 registered users!!!
Over 20 full days worth of streaming activity!!!

Thanks so much to everybody who has used the site so far and spread the word.The Stream24-7.Com Team.

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The objectives of the site are

• Legitimizing streaming by showing anybody can create and use stream applications
• Encouraging software developers to look at streaming vs zip type downloads
• Creating visibility of streaming and its practicality in the eyes of analysts and press
• Doing something that the other guys are not doing therefore creating new opportunities
• Creating pressure on corporate by creating a ground swell of opinion from techies who take these ideas to their bosses
  

Viral Marketing lets the users spread the word, through people like myself who have tried it out and are now blogging about it. Others will email their friends and tell them to give it a go and others will post on forums about it and so on it goes.

The Streaming experience is so different from the download experience that it's difficult to see how this can't be taken up in large volumes by consumers as much as the Enterprise markets.

Licensing a product only for the time you want to use it instead of purchasing full complements of software to complete one specific project or task has amazing cost saving implications for the short term user of software.

Imagine that you are project managing your own build house and you need software to help you do that, you don't know which product would best suit your needs, or for how long you will need it, so what better than to pop into PCWorld, Tesco, Walmart or any other high street store OR visit a site like Stream24-7 and try out and assess which one will suit your needs best.....Try before you buy, and then just rent the product for the timescale you need it.

How many items of software do you currently have sitting on your PC unused for the majority of the time, but essential occasionally. Eg the Self employed chappie who once a month sits down for a day or two at the PC and gets his accounts up to date, VAT returns and TAX sorted out, then never looks near that software till the next month or Quarterly figures are due. Maybe He/She even pays someone else to do that for them just now because they don't know which products to buy to do it for them or think it's cheaper to pay someone else for a day or two's work.

I'm quite excited by the prospect of being able to 'try before I buy' software and more so in so much as if it is streamed to my PC, then it's not actually 'on' my PC, so if it's rubbish then it's gone as soon as I'm finished with it. No redundant software taking up space on my hard-drive. And no applications sitting conflicting with other Apps on my machine.

The benefits of Streaming as far as I can see, outweigh buying a CD or downloading software so much, that I can't wait for it to be the de facto way to buy software applications!

Application Streamed in 3..2..1..Go!

For years I have been a lazy sod and won't spend the 2 hours travelling to and from my nearest software shop to buy applications to use on my PC and have been irritated by the fact that if I want a game or video it streamed to my PC, but getting an application turned my hair grey waiting for download times and installation.

Hurrah - I tried out the new Stream24-7 website this morning powered by Endeavors Technologies, AppExpress and was literally astounded by the speed with which not only could I register but the Appexpress client downloaded to my PC but I was then using my first application.

As in the title to this blog (after registration and client download of about 3-4 minutes) it was 3 seconds from hitting activate to the product I chose operating on my system.

3 seconds!!!!!!

OK, I agree I chose a small application for the off; FreeRam Pro XP, but then I thought I'd try Open Office Suite 2.2 and it took 4 minutes from product selection to operating time. I didn't even get time to get fed up and go and make a coffee while it was at it.

When I used a CD to put MS Office Professional onto my PC it took hours and I had to keep doing things to activate the next section, blah blah blah and on it went for hours.

I also remember when I bought online and downloaded Norton's Professional to my PC a long while back and I actually went out for the day while it downloaded to my PC and then spent the evening waiting for the installation to complete so that I could try it out. Unfortunately just over a year later I had a hard-drive crash and lost the product and couldn't download it again free because it was 1 year past purchase date, so I didn't bother paying for it again I just relied on freeware.

My understanding of the AppExpress client is that I could take my PC beat it up with a sledgehammer and throw it in the bin and tomorrow I could go out and log into my Stream24-7 account anywhere in the world download the AppExpress client to the PC and off I would go again. Obviously the data stored on the beaten up PC would be a goner, but it is anyway with a hard-drive crash, but at least I could still use the product I'd paid for.

I lost about £300 worth of downloaded products with that crash what with applications and games I had paid for and downloaded, so if I was asked the question 'Would you pay for AppExpress if it meant you knew any product bought and downloaded would still be available after a crash?' my answer would have to be 'Oh aye' - I am after all a Scotswoman.......lol :o) spend a little to save a lot!

OK Stream24-7 is offering freeware just now, but I would imagine that this will change in the future and we would get the likes of my lost Nortons Professional offered for sale. So if I decided to purchase it again through the AppEx client then had a hard-drive failure, I could then replace my hard-drive and get going again with the product I have previously purchased.

I'm sure someone will correct me on that if I'm wrong.....lol

Mini Break

Just back from a mini break visiting friends both new and old......lurverly time I had :o)

Mid country first for a few days and brought the sun down there with me, so got out and about a bit when there with good company and then up to the Lakes for a couple of days.

In Keswick (Lake District) for the first time (wow) beautiful scenery climbed a mini hill in the evening to build up an appetite when I arrived (not allowed on the path) and then next morning climbed up my first waterfall....lol Yes I said up 'the waterfall'. That's the problem with visiting a local action man in the area, he reckons paths are for tourists and you have to experience the rock climb to get the best view........(sigh....yeh).....lol.....almost made it to the top too, but any further and i think i'd have been washed away and splattered on the rocks below.

Anyway, I came back to a friend in crisis and 200 emails, so, not had a chance to see whats going on, but will have a good read up and see what I can blether about later, tomorrow or the next day.

7th Hindenburg Omen

A 7th Hindenburg Omen appeared Monday 23rd July 2007 increasing the chances of a significant drop in the markets by October 2007.

https://www.technicalindicatorindex.com/Default.asp You can sign up for a months free trial to this site for information about this.

http://letstalkaboutshares.blogspot.com/2007/07/hindenberg-omen-update.html dated 23rd July

http://letstalkaboutshares.blogspot.com/2007/07/hindenberg-omen-stock-market-crash.html dated 12th July

You'll notice I've been spelling it wrong, which may have hindered your research - my apologies for that.

Google Alerts Gone AWOL

Is anyone else not receiving google alerts that were previously coming through without a problem?

I have not received any since 11th July 2007. I have emailed Google about it, but have only received an automated response saying they read everything. Good for them, well a human response would be better thanks.

I have emailed my service provider, Supanet, who said it's not a problem at their end. I'd maybe be more confident about that if it wasn't that their system was down due to technical problems during that week too.

The other problem is that I am not receiving the comments from on here by email as I usually do, which is annoying as I can't keep checking through reams of different posts to see if someone has left a comment that I should maybe respond to.

Blogspot/Blogger is a google system too, so, maybe it is a google problem.

Can anyone help me out here as to where the problem lies, so that I can at least narrow the culprit down?....lol

Is it a Google problem or purely a Supanet problem?

Over to you folks - I'll read any comments posted here....'cause.......well obviously they won't be emailed to me. lol

Hindenberg Omen - Update

http://letstalkaboutshares.blogspot.com/2007/07/hindenberg-omen-stock-market-crash.html

Following on from my article on Thursday 12th July (see above)a sixth Hindenberg Omen presented itself on Friday 20th July.

The markets have been pushing up to new highs, the bulls are on the march, but is this just another sign of impending doom.

In relation to what I said previously about the housing market being significant in all this, the weather is probably going to play a major part in some areas for the sales to come to a standstill.

With the current flooding in many parts of England at the moment, people won't be able to stay in their 'own' houses for many many months, let alone sell them on to anyone else. I heard a woman on the news this morning saying, "This is the 3rd time I've been flooded. I've had enough. I need to move to another area." The question is how will she do that? Would you buy her house? I wouldn't.

Both the Dow and the Ftse started a decline on Friday, but whether this is the start of a larger drop or just a rest before a push for new highs remains to be seen.

It's worth being wary though.

Technical Problems

I've been having some technical problems due to a problem my service provider had, hence the lack of a sum up of my thoughts on the DABCC interview of Peter Bondar.

It seems like normal service has resumed, so I'll get caught up with a few other things I'm working on and probably get onto it tomorrow at some point. All being well....lol

Hindenberg Omen - Stock Market Crash?

Today the news came out that another Hindenberg Omen appeared on Wednesday 11th July 2007.

When I say another, it's the third signal I've heard of in recent weeks. For full analysis of this you can visit McHugh's Financial Markets Forecast & Analysis

For those of you who like me; and I've already put my hands up to this; are not chartists what exactly does this mean. Well according to the above site, it means a stronger indication of a significant stock market decline between now and October 2007.

What is a Hindenberg Omen?

Good question and I don't have the knowledge to answer that for you so I've found an explaination on another website from 2005 which hopefully helps and am posting a section from that webiste here with a link to the full article.

http://www.safehaven.com/article-3880.htm

It is the alignment of several technical factors that measure the underlying condition of the stock market - specifically the NYSE - such that the probability that a stock market crash occurs is higher than normal, and the probability of a severe decline is quite high. This Omen has appeared before all of the stock market crashes, or panic events, of the past 21 years. All of them. No panic sell-off occurred over the past 21 years without the presence of a Hindenburg Omen. The way Peter Eliades put it in a recent Daily Update, September 21, 2005 (Peter is well worth the read, believe me), "The rationale behind the indicator is that, under normal conditions, either a substantial number of stocks establish new annual highs or a large number set new lows - but not both." When both new highs and new lows are large, "it indicates the market is undergoing a period of extreme divergence — many stocks establishing new highs and many setting new lows as well. Such divergence is not usually conducive to future rising prices. A healthy market requires some semblance of internal uniformity, and it doesn't matter what direction that uniformity takes. Many new highs and very few lows is obviously bullish, but so is a great many new lows accompanied by few or no new highs. This is the condition that leads to important market bottoms."

I guess if you look at what has been happening in the US with the sub-prime lending market ie a lot of lenders going down due to bad debtors and with interest rates rising here in the UK there should be indications in the general economy that can signal this potential occurance.

Oh no but the economy is too buoyant and that's why interest rates are going up!, I hear you say............. I'd answer, wasn't that also the case in the 80's just before a major crash.

We can be a bit blinkered when the economy is running away with itself and see it as all good, but with borrowing at all time highs and a lot of that out of equity in properties, and re-posessions on the rise again, isn't negative equity the next thing around the corner.

Figures from the Council of Mortgage Lenders show that repossessions are at their highest level for seven years, having risen from 10,310 in 2005 to 17,000 in 2006, and research from Shelter reveals that a disproportionate number of recent repossessions have been initiated in the sub-prime sector, often on remortgages arranged to cover other debts.

In some areas granted, the housing market is still running at amazing levels, but there comes a day when interest rates reach the point where the squeeze starts and poeple can't afford to move up the ladder anymore, so a blip and a slow down starts, and some areas are already probably at their peak. Salaries have not gone up at the same rate as the cost of housing, so crunch point will happen eventually.

OK so crunch point may not be now, when these Hindenberg Omens are showing, but it will come one day as we all know and it could be 1 or even 3 years away, but it will come.

What does this have to do with my investment?

Well if you are invested in a company that you think can only forge ahead you might not think it will matter to you, but it will. If people go into a panic if a big sell off happens, they will create a situation where the brokers start to automatically knock percentages off all shares they deal with and so your investment may well go down even if it has huge potenial to rise. When I say investment, I mean in stocks and shares. Equally though if this does happen then, pensions, ISA's etc will also go down, but possibly the Gold (people hedging) and the Bonds market will increase, so I guess it just depends where your safe haven is.

I'm sure there will be more to write on this subject in coming weeks or months.

Market Abuse - Ramping and De-ramping

[This post has been edited and a new link demonstrating Market Abuse from the Wall Street Journal added to it Thursday 12th July 2007]

Have you been on a shareholders bulletin board (BB) or forum recently where something looks fishy?

Well over on the iii BB for Stanelco, a shareholder has taken things into his own hands and reported the company to the LSE for what he/she perceives to have been the company's deliberate attempts to ramp their position in the market by sending out overly positive statements whilst in reality everything wasn't as rosy in their garden after all as was evidenced by the failure of their Greenseal Trials with Asda.

Prior to their admission of the trial failure, all company statements had said the trials were going well. So what might the company have been guilty of (allegedly)? Well maybe they were guilty of suppressing the negative price sensitive news that should maybe have been issued at a much earlier stage.

A company has an obligation to their shareholders to issue ALL price sensitive news within a timely manner, whether that be in the Positive or the Negative as this is what shareholders use to make financial decisions on their stakes within the company ie their shareholding levels.

It is understandable to a degree that no company wants to have to issue bad news as they want the shareprice to go up not down obviously. Keeping the price heading up makes it easier for them to get institutions on board and to secure funding when required. Negative news hinders this.

So what is Ramping?

Well ramping can take many forms, from a company not issuing the negative news, a shareholder who has lost a lot of money in the past and has maybe bought in at a new low and now wants to make back his losses, a company owner overstating the future potential of the company, to even someone circulating rumours of a take over bid on it's way.

A ramper might use a BB to constantly espouse the future potential revenue of the company even if unfounded, put ridiculous valuations on a company for possible take over bids and post so often as to drown out other peoples opinions. They might also pick on other posters and mis-represent what they are saying if they take a even a slightly different view to them or an obvious opposing position. This can even go so far as to go offline and become a personal attack if they have access to your email address.

What is De-ramping - and who does it benefit?

This, also, can take different forms. Perhaps a shareholder has gone short on a share, they obviously then need a decline in the shareprice to make a profit, so they will go onto BB's and say anything they can to persuade others that the company is going to fail or a particular product is going to fail. Directors who want to perform a management buyout, might similarly suppress the positives about how the company or products are progressing to a degree where they are not fully informing the market of 'positive' price sensitive news, for their own ends.

A de-ramper can and will also use all of the same tactics as the ramper when it comes to BB's and making sure their message is the only one heard.


So what is the difference between the ordinary shareholder and the ramper or de-ramper?

Well the ordinary shareholder, while they probably enthuse about any company they have bought shares in, they will also take on board the possible negatives and be happy to have both sides of any argument openly aired so that they can make an informed decision. They might not like to hear the negatives or have their excitement quelled a bit, however, they will listen and accept that no company or product market is buoyant ALL the time and they will want to hear clear arguments from both sides of the fence and from that, they will then decide to continue to hold a share or sell up and move on. At least they will have had all the information available to them to do this.

Now lets face it, we all get a bit excited when we hear a rumour and the old adage goes, Buy on Rumour Sell on Fact, the market operates a lot on rumours, but I suppose the important thing to think about when you hear a rumour is. Where did the rumour start, has the person posting the rumour backed it up with any research and/or links to that research. If it has just appeared completely out of the blue and has absolutely no basis in fact, then bide your time and wait for confirmation or you could just be supporting a shorters dream situation, or helping someone who's lost a lot of money to sell into a rise created by the rumour. They will then be off, while you are left sitting with the shares and the price drifting down again.


Related Articles
thisismoney.co.uk published an article entitled Avoid the Pump And Dump last year, warning people about email and BB campaigns to ramp or de-ramp shares.

And what happens if someone is found out.......
'City Slicker' Hipwell Jailed
Livedoor founder arrested
'Lie for me' asked Morgan
High-risk journey to the unknown
Wall street Journal

Enjoy BB's they can be a lot of fun and you can meet a lot of very nice, knowledgeable, witty, trustworthy people on there. But be wary, you can also become a gullible victim of someone elses game very easily, but be careful of getting dragged into something that could see you entrapped in an illegal situation.

If it looks fishy and smells fishy, then take care, we all know what bad fish does to us. :o)

Oh and by the way, I hold Stanelco shares at a loss, but I'm not afraid to hide the negatives because of that loss....LOL....the truth is the truth.

New Shop / Store open for business!

As you will see if you are a regular visitor I have been playing around with the layout of the page a little. While I don't want to clutter up the page with loads of adverts (AppExpress and Encryptanet have been given FREE space), I was made redundant a while back so every little helps....lol

I have joined the Amazon affiliates scheme and have created an online shop or store depending on what country you are visiting from :o). I've set the Home Page, book section, to cover all sorts of information relating to investments, share dealing the stock market and tax issues to be in keeping with this site's theme and in the next section there are books specifically aimed at Technologies old and new again to fit in with a lot of what is blogged about on here.

The other sections cover, Electronics (Ipods, Sat nav, computer hardware etc), Software, DVD's and Music. Hopefully something for most folks in the above lists.

Pop into the shop, have a seat and browse around at your leisure - the link is on the sidebar.

Newly rich & The Jester

My apologies, I thought you meant links within the posts weren't working, you didn't mention that it was the companies List on the sidebar.

I had a click around the site and found the problem though. I tried to edit them, but they wouldn't change, so I have deleted and re-done the links, so hopefully its all hunky dory now. Please let me know if still a problem.

Thanks for highlighting the problem guys and thanks for coming and reading my ramblings :o)

Posting Comments

Please try to post your comments on the specific blog title that you are commenting on, so that it makes sense to other readers. I will transfer the 2 comments from the old blog onto the current one now for this purpose. Thank you.

Back from Beyond

Hi there, did you miss me? Did you even notice I was missing.....lol

It's been a wee while since I posted anything for a few reasons, some of which I can't go into and the other is that we have entered that strange twilight zone that happens in May when not a lot happens sometimes. That's probably because we have the end of the tax year in April and a lot of reassessing of portfolios takes place April/May.

But hey - at least one of you noticed I was missing and sent out an APB, thanks for the email John Smith (not his real name); I'm fine, no need to worry :o)

Well I'm going to have a look at the shares I usually blog about as this week there has been some action on a few fronts, but rather than do a spread of them all in one blog, I'll take an individual look at them.

There has been news this week on Tadpole, Stanelco and Chaco, so I'll get onto it now.

Later Gaters!

Shareholder Action Groups

From what used to be a pretty closed shop in the financial industry ie companies had carte blanche to trample the small investor as 'he' didn't have any force within the shareholding, the Internet and 'bulletin boards' seem to have changed that scenario forever.

You used to buy shares by contacting a broker getting advice or telling him what you wanted to buy or sell and he then did the transaction for you. Perhaps the system has bitten itself in the foot now by opening up on the Internet and giving the small (I used that advisedly as many are quite large) investors direct access to buying and selling shares.

By having online systems and as said before 'bulletin boards' on a lot of online broker sites, small investors can now communicate with each other and join forces and become a force to be reckoned with by agreement to use their joint holdings as a way to change a company's attitude to them.

Shareholder Action Groups seem to be springing up all over the place now. Tadpole formed one to try to defend the company against the obvious attempt to take it over by Steig Westerberg and John Dilts. Other groups of shareholders have formed them to try to get companies to take the shareholders views into account for many reasons and whether at the end of the day they achieve their goal or not, they tell the management that they are being watched and watched closely at that.

I have been approached by 2 SAG's to give them a platform to get information out to other shareholders about issues they are dealing with and I am more than happy for that platform to be here.

SAG's - Chaco Resources and World Television Group will both be posting information on here in the next few days. Let the force of the Internet be a friend to the small investor. Make sure that they get an audience. If you know anyone else who either holds any of these shares or is just another investor who might know someone, please send them an email link to the site or use bulletin boards to let them know where to find out what is happening, but do not just spam BB's with this though.

I'm not saying that all SAG's are set up for the right purpose, but most probably are - Help each other here please, you might need something like this yourself one day. If you are a TAD holder then you probably were involved in one.

To join the WTV Action Group visit http://wtvaction.org/default.aspx

Beau - Gareth

I see my guest blogger has arrived on site and knocked my picture off the front page!!!!! Not a bad thing really I hasten to add.

If he's a good boy he might be allowed to stay, and if he's bad we might have to delete him at a later date..........lol

Welcome Beau :o)

Off Topic - P.S. Alex Salmond does not speak for all the Scottish people - NOT ME anyway, I'm for the Union.

Chaco Resources - What's up!

Rather than just post a lot of links to information that most Chaco holders already know about, having talked to a couple of Chaco shareholders I am now of the opinion that someone better than me can fill you in on the current story.

I will post some information obvioulsy so that non holders can get the background information, but I have sent an 'author invitation' out so that he can blog here directly for you.

Apparently just like Tadpole, the shareholders of Chaco have felt the need to create an Action Group to elicit information from the company as they feel they are being kept in the dark about important issues. I think we are going to see a lot more of this type of thing in the future with so many small holders wanting to take an active role in their investments. This group are meeting on Thursday, so I have asked my guest blogger to do a pre meeting blog and if the others agree to it a post meeting blog to update you on whats at hand.

In the past companies had a barrier between them and the investor due to the fact that people dealt via the telephone with a broker and took their advice on what they should and shouldn't buy. With the internet dealing services available these days, the small investor is now much more hands on in their choice of investment, being able to research it and they want to hold the management of the companies accountable in a way never before seen.

Power to the people I say!

Shares to investigate

Due to some changes in my plans over the weekend I have not had time to investigate the shares I had hoped to have reported on and since then I have had a couple of other shares to add to those.

Having 4 shares to do research on for now will be enough to keep me going to for a wee minute (a week probably) and having just spent 3 hours in the dentist's chair trying to get the bad work of a previous dentist rectified, I'm exhausted. I also think I'm a bit too drugged up to make sense, so I'm going to give myself a few hours off and put my feet up. :o)

I've got lots to report on so will get stuck in later if I feel like I've landed back on this planet - I'm out somewhere beside Zeus just now I think.

Aha - Now I know thanks to Greg

Was talking to Greg (Bolcer) last night about what he'd like the subject of his interview to be and was also asking him if he knew why my blogs were previously showing up on google alerts and now they aren't. Of course he knew the answer straight away!

Apparently, when you set up a new webpage google bless them index it and so your pages show up for about the first month just to let you know it's there then you fall off their radar and have to fight for position amongst all the millions of other websites around. They don't index all pages every month, only about 18% of the web so your page might not be indexed again for another 6 months at which point it might start showing up again.

For a blog in particular you then won't show up anywhere unless someone performs a specific search on blog search or you can do something clever with metatags and weblinks - whooooosh did you see that fly over my head....lol Having visited the google webmasters page they make it clear that they have got wise to those tactics too, so not much point fiddling about with that.

Fair enough! So now I know, I'm not bothered. I was bothered when I thought it was something I had done that had knocked it out of the listings. Hey Ho.

Right so back to his interview. We have decided on an interview focusing mainly on his current projects but he has said he will welcome questions from the readers too. So again over to you. I'll leave it a few days for any questions to come in before I get back to him.