old games on xp - hardware acceleration woes

Remember:
Old games (2002 fisher price rescue heroes by knowledge adventure for example) use macromedia director and the projector (basically the whole game) will crash on start up after flashing black screen IFF you turn on full graphics card hardware acceleration!!!!!!!!

Moving it one or two notches to the left fixes it!!!!!!!!

Alternative approach apparently is to install using windows compatibility mode (either NT or 95/98) - I wonder if you can set the runtime to use windows compatibility mode or if it only works on install?

EG: This one fails!!!
fisher price rescue heroes Lava Landslide
Windows 98/ME/2000, Pentium II 266 MHz, 64 MB RAM, 24X CD-ROM, 16-bit color 640X480.

deepdan blog and google

How does google choose which blogs to include in search?

It appears that you have to explicitly link to the blog to get google to include it in it's search.

So today I did that on my ancient http://users.monash.edu.au/~dan/
Which was first started while sitting in front of a decstation (no doubt fawlty1)

So, now the race is on, to see how often users.monash is cached by google and if this blog shows up.
Cached http://users.monash.edu.au/~dan/ has april13 date today, I wonder what the cycle is?