Because Technorati indexes my categories as tags, I’ve renamed them to more standard terms – less interesting, but more useful taxonomically.

No, I haven’t gone into hiding. Since getting back from London on Monday evening, I’ve been suffering from a bad back and a nasty cold, the result of which is that I’ve been off work much of this week and not blogging. I have learnt that Veno’s is great for chesty coughs and I recommend it.

My phone has been sent off the Nokia for repair. I was told to expect it back in the middle of next week “or they may replace it if they can’t fix it.” I can’t say I like the use of the word “may”.

No blogging the last few days thanks to the failure of anything technical I touch.

My minor phone crisis has not resolved itself and I find myself struggling with a repeatedly crashing Nokia 6600, with a backup older handset for those moment where the 6600 completely gives up the ghost. As I’ve only had it three months, I’m rather peeved and I’m trying to work out whether I should go through the rigmarole of contacting the original retailer or just take it into a Nokia service centre.

Meanwhile, my laptop has decided to refuse to use my phone as a modem via Bluetooth, apparently as a result of a Windows security update. Bizarrely, connections still work (painfully slowly) via infrared, and I can still transfer files using Bluetooth, but I get a “hardware failure” message when trying to dial up via Bluetooth. This could be a phone fault or could be a problem with the Windows settings (although I haven’t been able to identify the problem).

I’m away campaigning this weekend so I’ll put off pulling my hair out over this until next week.

It’s one year since this blog’s first post, so here are some blogstats:

• 2: number of servers this site has been hosted on
• 2: number of blogging applications used
• 226: number of posts
• 444: number of comments
• 1.96: average number of comments per post
• 119: number of number plates spotted (playing since May 2004)
• 6,322: unique hits (counting since May 2004)

Top seven referring blogs:

• 7: Chewing My Keyboard
• 6: Recess Monkey
• 5: Liberal England
• 4: Adam Nazir Ahmed Teladia
• 3: What You Can Get Away With
• 2: Martyn Hencher (defunct)
• 1: Peter Black

Top ten search terms:

• 10: jerry
• 9: blog
• 8: springer
• 7: geek
• 6: island
• 5: katie
• 4: price
• 3: eurovision
• 2: will
• 1: howells

Despite that list, most of my hits at the moment are from searches for “David Tennant”.