Every one knew how laborious the usual Method is of attaining to Arts and Sciences; whereas by his Contrivance, the most ignorant Person at a reasonable Charge, and with a little bodily Labour, may write Books in Philosophy, Poetry, Politicks, Law, Mathematicks and Theology, without the least Assistance from Genius or Study.

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Bad Performance

Posted on Thursday 18 November 2004

Apologies for the long page download times lately. It's because my stats meter has chosen to stop working. I've disconnected it until such time as it manages to get a grip.


UPDATE: It's back but for how long I wonder.


UPDATE: Gerard Van der Leun provides the answer that I should have thought of.


When you think about it, this is really only fitting seeing that he also sent enough traffic to cause sitemeter to meltdown in the first place ;-)