Archive for May, 2007

Joining the “I Follow” movement

Saturday, May 19th, 2007

I am proud to announce that Swollen Pickles has now jumped aboard the “I Follow” movement. What is the “I Follow” movement all about? Well, I best let someone better equipped respond to that one: Almost all blog platforms by default are set up so that a “dead end” piece of code is inserted wherever [...]

The defacto Digg ban

Friday, May 18th, 2007

You may remember that earlier this year, Swollen Pickles made the exclusive “Banned by Digg” list. A short time later, Swollen Pickles was “unbanned”. The world rejoiced. Well, it has been brought to my attention by Paula Mooney, that the Digg conspiracy is alive and well. It seems that the fascists at Digg have developed [...]

Swollen Pickles finally gets a second life

Thursday, May 17th, 2007

Well I’ve finally taken all the feedback I’ve received on board, and I’ve gone out and got myself a life! Yup, Swollen Pickles has hit Second Life with a bang. Call it “market research” but I thought it was about time I investigated the Second Life phenomenon to find out what all the fuss is [...]

In search of fresh ideas

Thursday, May 17th, 2007

For some reason, this cartoon seemed highly relevant today.

John Chow tames the mythological Agloco Viewbar

Tuesday, May 15th, 2007

Just checked in for daily dose of Chow, and there’s big news. He’s running the mythical Agloco Viewbar, you can check the video on his blog. Some other points to note from John’s post are: Once installed the Viewbar takes up 5MB of space The Viewbar is no bigger than the Windows task bar His [...]

Nine Inch Nails Concert Review (Melbourne, The Metro, 13 May 2007)

Tuesday, May 15th, 2007

Nine Inch Nails played the Metro in Melbourne Sunday night, 13 May 2007. If you don’t know, the Metro is a small “intimate” venue, probably best known in Melbourne as a hang out for drunken bogan’s who want a dose of doof doof music. Sunday night, probably proves why the venue has such a reputation. [...]

Microsoft Wordz

Monday, May 14th, 2007

Microsoft Word is one of the most used programs on the planet. But now it’s received a face lift. Microsoft are proud to announce the launch of Microsoft Wordz y’all.

The nuts and bolts of post modernist art

Thursday, May 10th, 2007

It’s been a long time since I’ve been able to post a contribution from the man-child and associate known as Captain K. Perhaps best known for drinking Kahlua and milk through his nose, Captain K is also the creator of the McDonalds Pickle Burger. This is the first, in what I hope will be an [...]

First look at the Agloco ViewBar in action

Thursday, May 10th, 2007

Here is your non-exclusive first look at the Agloco ViewBar in action. Click here to open the image in a new window. As you can see it really blends in quite well will the standard windows tool bar, and doesn’t invade upon your window space much at all. To get paid for having that little [...]

The grand SEO book phenomenon

Wednesday, May 9th, 2007

If you’ve browsed any of the web development or online business forums, chances are you will have found at least one person talking about Aaron Wall. To be perfectly honest, I’d never really paid much attention to the phenomenon until I looked into the SEO book affiliate program. I have to say, I’m now a [...]

My first week with Auction Ads

Wednesday, May 9th, 2007

I signed up to Auction Ads around one week ago, you can see them on this site. So far they have had over 3,000 impressions in 7 days, with a CTR of around 3%, which isn’t too bad. Problem is, this doesn’t result in any sort of payout, unless the person that clicks through the [...]