Spent part of the day trying to work out some database problems with the sites that recently went down. It began when Amy tried to post a comment on her blog and WordPress was having none of it. I was preoccupied with getting a tutorial done for another one of my sites, Handplane Central so [...]

Hundreds, maybe thousands of quality incoming website links for free? And the only thing you have to do is sign up and add a few links to you own webpages? Sounds too good to be true – and it just may be – but its definitely an experiment worth undertaking and something I want to [...]

Yes, yes! I know I’m a slack b**tard and I should be posting here more often, but I’ve just been too busy these past couple of months to do so. I did think about making it a New Years resolution but, on reflection, I think that if anything it will only be an “unofficial” New [...]

Two blog reviews that is… The first one you may already know about (well, if you’ve been reading this blog in the last week you WILL know about it) and that is the battle/review over at Maximum Awesome known as Blog Thunderdome. I should probably add that if anyone from here wants to “vote” for [...]

….To quote REG from “Withnail And I”. Apologies for not posting for a couple of days but I’ve been busy with other “real world” matters. I should warn you that I may be going on an even longer (two month) holiday if the blog doesn’t fair well in the Blog Thunderdome over the next week [...]

Is it the ultimate battle arena? Are the stakes just too high? Do you have to be crazy to even consider entering into this bout? Two blogs enter. One blog leaves! It’s full steam ahead for the Blog Thunderdome! Holy crap it’s getting hot in here! There’s a new “Bad Boy” in town and this [...]

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International Webloggers Day – June 14th, 2005. The historical impact of weblogging. I was asked by someone about a month or so ago if I was going to participate in this years International Webloggers Day? I replied that I’d never even heard of it – being relatively new to the world of blogging in general [...]

I found these today on the Junk Feud blog as I was doing my rounds. They reminded me of something I once said many years ago – that celebrities should start fighting back using the same weapons as the paparazzi do. Cameras! I remember thinking that if I was ever in the situation of being [...]

But first, the sites that inspired me (in no particular order)