Thanks for the link to Full Throttle, Ollie. I’ve now deposited it in my list of blogs to visit.

As for my own blog, I suspect having a low ranking on the search engines probably doesn’t help. Still, I can’t say the Spanish military missed much on Sunday with regard to their hero… I get some foreign spammers (particularly from Russia, but the reason behind that is pretty complicated), but generally my readers come from Britain, Australia (because the forum it lives in is Australian) or are people I’ve encountered and spoken to online already. Hence why I wasn’t really affected by the ban on the Spanish military using the Spanish Grand Prix as an excuse to be distracted from duty. Mind you, my blog is growing anyway. I bet yours is growing too

It’s not nice that people are stealing (as opposed to linking) to your content. For some reason nettiquette doesn’t seem to have fully caught on…

Drinking wine near a computer isn’t a good plan in the first place, but Bruce Willis isn’t exactly anyone’s first thought when actors who could play Murray Walker comes to mind. He’s all action and no talk – the complete opposite of Murray…

Comment #2: Dank, I love the graphic in the first link you gave. Why didn’t I think of that!?

Comment #3: A very rare sighting of Marc, a man who runs a motor sport site (Full Throttle) and hails from the grand ol’ US of A. Marc left the first officially-recognised-by-Ollie-as-not-spam comment on this site way back when I didn’t even realise Google had got around to listing it. Thanks for stopping by my good man. I should drop by yours for tea more often. I’ll make a point in the future.

Comment #4: Ali, they will come. Just keep writing with passion and thought, and eventually, people will notice. Oddly enough, I get a fair few foreign-speakers [genuinely] linking to here (and thousands of foreign spammers as well as thousands of English-speaking content-thieving…@$%&@…), which always prompts a quick Google translation just to understand what they’re saying. But perseverance works, and if you have great content (like you have), people will eventually realise this. I wouldn’t link to you if I didn’t think your writing wasn’t good enough. I link because, in my humble opinion, you’re a valuable member of the online F1 community.

And now I’ve re-read your final few words and realise the meaning behind you comment. Oh well, I still stand by all that I’ve said.

Comment #5: Dank, I told my girlfriend the rumour you described, and after a short pause while she assured herself that I’d said what she thought she had just heard, well, her laptop needed a clean-up afterwards, put it that way! (Just in case, don’t tell other people that rumour just after they’ve taken a gulp of wine. Not only is it a waste of good alcohol, it leaves the monitor in a right mess.)

MURRAY WALKER!!!

Crash.net article on Michael Schumacher film.

That said, I’ve had little traffic from non-English-speaking users of any kind so far, so I think I’ll cope.

I mean really, are the F1 websites ready for a drop in readership this weekend? Seems the Spanish military has seen fit to ban all of its members from surfing sports websites due to server overloading that has occurred in the past.

Somehow I don’t think that’s going over to well with the Spanish GP this weekend.

http://www.davisadvertisinginc.com/sodaseal/
http://www.bevnet.com/classifieds/ad/F7986CDBC5CD4ACC902464FDAA4ED53C

Oh well, I’m sure he’ll fall back on his planned movie of Michael Schumacher’s career, starring none other than… Michael Schumacher!