Hissingsid - 8:00 pm on May 26, 2012 (gmt 0)

Just to reduce that chance of one of my sites being the first example site for prosecution I will place a small two line note at the top of each page saying something along the lines "by using this site you are agreeing to the use of cookies. Click here for more information about cookies and their use on this site". I will link to my existing privacy statement.

That is exactly what I implemented but I've now removed it as I think that the watered down guidelines don't even require this for analytics cookies.

As you imply the law (any law for that matter) is all about interpretation. Until there is a test case we will never know how much we need to do to be fully compliant.