As you may have noticed, there is very, very little advertising on OP these days. The fact is the site is basically a labour of love. At some point I may go back to traffic magnet, banner farm but for now it’s just an outlet and an excuse to be clever (debatable…maybe) on a daily basis.

So, I’m doing this for you, dear readers. I want to give some shout outs to my loyal readers and if you don’t know how I know where you are, welcome to the creepy world of geo-ip based server stats. So…I’ve restricted it to the top ten major cities only…so as not to give too much away, if you want to let me know you are in the house, post a comment:

• To the half dozen or so fans in Witchita, Kansas — Hi y’all.
• You tech nerds in Mountain View, California — what up???
• I’m freaking HUGE in Ohio with readers checking in from Cleveland, Cincy AND Dayton — hi ladies! (and your many neighbours!)
• Hi Delaware, all five of you!
• Bonjourno to the guys in Verona, Italia!!! Forza Ferrari!
• I’ve got a bunch of you checking in from Pennsylvania as well, hiya!
• As-Salamu Alaykum to the guys in Dubai. Unless you are servicemen, then Hu-ah.
• Yee-hah to my readers in and around Houston.
• ¿Qué tal? to the crew in Mexico City.
• And a hearty Zeig Heil to zee Germans.
• By all means a heartfelt Eh! To the Canadian contingent.

Anyway, thanks for reading. Really. Feel free to drop me an email. I read and answer all of them.