Tuesday, March 13th, 2007
PayPerPost (PPP) are now offering me another incentive to increase traffic to Swollen Pickles. PPP have introduced a new segmentation system that is rewarding ‘bloggers’ with high traffic blogs. What does this mean? Well, if you’ve got a blog that is getting a butt load of traffic, then you could be making up to $1000 [...]
Tuesday, March 13th, 2007
This news is a few weeks old now, but I must have been hiding under a rock because I missed it. A media release was posted on Chris Cornell’s myspace page announcing that Cornell has quit Audioslave. WOOHOO! Cornell is permanently departing super-group Audioslave stating, “Due to irresolvable personality conflicts as well as musical differences, [...]
Friday, March 9th, 2007
Well the Grand Swollen Pickles AGLOCO network is starting to build slowly! As of writing this the network is five strong. Slowly but surely, Swollen Pickles is taking over the globe, at this rate, I’ll ‘own the internet’ in the year 2764. If you haven’t heard of , it’s a new start up that is [...]
Friday, March 9th, 2007
Big news today, Captain America is dead. Gunned down on the steps court. He was arriving there as a fugitive, a resistance leader to a federal Superhero Registration Act. Captain America had strongly opposed the mandatory federal registration of all super-powered beings and had lead the Anti-Registration faction and resistance movement for some time. It [...]
Thursday, March 8th, 2007
Yeah, it’s old, but still funny. If you don’t know where Broadmeadows is, here’s an extract from wikipedia: During the 1970s and 1980s Broadmeadows had a reputation for boisterous youth: the Broady Boys rode the trains and daubed graffiti proclaiming that they “rule, O.K.” The area was also known as a locus of the Sharpie [...]
Wednesday, March 7th, 2007
If your at work and the quiet drone of computer monitors, lack of natural light and consistent craving for coffee is beginning to get you down, then it’s definitely time that you watched this inspirational tribute to eagles. Please be advised that this tribute does not include Bette Midler. If you are looking for Bette [...]
Wednesday, March 7th, 2007
Audi have unveiled their new S5 sports coupe simultaneously at the Melbourne International Motor Show and the Geneva Motor Show. The S5 boasts an eight-cylinder engine with a rated power output of 260 kW (354 bhp). Its peak torque is 440 Nm, which it delivers at 3,500 rpm. The Audi S5 can hit the 100km/h [...]
Wednesday, March 7th, 2007
Besides the Mondeo, another big announcement from Ford at the Melbourne Motor Show was the launch of the Ford Fiesta XR4. President of Ford Australia, Tom Gorman, was on hand for the launch. “Fiesta XR4 will be on sale before the end of the second quarter and we are confident this junior hot hatch, with [...]
Tuesday, March 6th, 2007
If you insist on going to see Ghost Rider, please enter the cinema with extremely low expectations. Even then, expect to be disappointed! The film is directed by Mark Steven Johnson, the man behind the other disappointing super hero flick, Daredevil.
Tuesday, March 6th, 2007
The is one question that I get asked quite often, “How can you afford to keep SwollenPickles.com online?” The answer is pretty simple. At the moment, SwollenPickles.com generates more revenue than I’m paying out in expenditure, and as long as that keeps happening, I can afford to keep the site online. I never started SwollenPickles.com [...]
Friday, March 2nd, 2007
The Melbourne International Motor Show is now officially under way. This morning saw a number of ‘new’ products launched onto the Australian market. It will be interesting to see how the show is covered in the media, as from where I was standing, there weren’t many show stopping acts this year. The media preview morning [...]
