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I'm old enough to remember Bill Forsyth's first films Gregory's Girl and That Sinking Feeling resonating with me as a teenager when, in the early Eighties, I first watched them during half-term breaks in the North of Scotland. We thought they were great. The dark, understated comedies were familiar and strange at the same time - it seemed like some local kids had just strolled into the film, yet there was nothing else like these out there. Scottish feature films were few and far between back then.

We're now past the half-way mark at the Edinburgh Film Festival (it finishes this Sunday, with the B

Posting events to the Edinburgh Events calendar is still in beta stage and is still restricted to staff while we work out the kinks.

You probably didn't notice it, but EdinburghGuide moved this morning to a new server. We outgrew our previous server space and are now spreading out on a higher end Dell 1950.

We have added an EdinburghGuide.com newsletter. Initially, this will occasionally let you know about developments on the site and other noteworthy news.

Internet Explorer 6.0 users (poor you!) may have experienced some layout problems when viewing the Edinburgh film and theatre listings pages - these bugs have been fixed along with a few minor design adjustments to the navigation menu.

There are two ways registered users can post to EG:

(1) under the "Edinburgh" navigation menu (at top left of every page) choose the flyout menu "Create Content" and then choose your otpion (e.g. Forum Topic).

(2) go to the page where you want to post (e.g. Forum) and click the link to create content

If you are registered you can post comments to some posts as well. The link to post a comment is usually at the end of the item.

I made a post to the Forum, just over a week ago, on how to get ensure that your post doesn't have additional whitespace.

A number of people have asked about posting events on the new Edinburgh Events calendar. This is still being tested out, so please post events in the forums for now.

As regulars will see, EG has had a makeover. I've tried to maintain the simplicity and ease-of-use in the navigation and design that people said they liked so much about EG's first incarnation.

We've added a new Edinburgh forum. The previous PhpBB forums did a good job, but after we moved to our new CMS in August, we felt the need to streamline our site. This meant replacing the older forum so that people don't need two separate log-ins for posting comments and another for interacting on the site as a whole.