Saturday, December 29th, 2007
Well, I think I’ve almost successfully implemented the new Swollen Pickles theme. I’m sure there are a few kinks that need to be ironed out of the next couple of days, but fingers crossed, I think I’m fairly close. If you spot any bugs please let me know, and if you also know how to [...]
Thursday, December 27th, 2007
With the year fast drawing to a close, I thought it might be time to sit back and reflect on what a year it has been. In other words, I’m about to run through the top 10 most popular posts on Swollen Pickles for 2007. By popular, I’m talking about the most visited posts as [...]
Wednesday, December 26th, 2007
After a couple of weeks on Entrecard, I have built up enough credits to pick up an ad spot on JohnChow.com. This will be an interesting experiment to see how many visitors the ad spot will bring in. My ad spot will be shown on his site on the 28th December 2007. To celebrate this [...]
Wednesday, December 26th, 2007
Ever since AuctionAds started to perform less than favorably for me, I’ve been looking for an alternative. A while ago I received an email inviting me to join up to ShoppingAds beta. If you scroll down this post you’ll see an example of one of the 250 x 250 ShoppingAds adblocks in action. First impressions [...]
Tuesday, December 25th, 2007
Dear World, Merry Christmas and/or Merry whatever else it is you choose to celebrate at this time of year. Right now I’m on holiday, so, thanks to the marvels of modern science and technology, this post was written five days ago. Trippy stuff kids! It is now lunch time, so I’m probably stuffing my face [...]
Sunday, December 23rd, 2007
If you are scratching your head trying to come up with some last minute gift ideas, then maybe it’s time you considered books! You remember those? Before the internet, people used to read these things called books. Words printed on paper and bound together? Anyway, in a tribute to old style books (particularly Golden Books [...]
Saturday, December 22nd, 2007
I have to apologise. I haven’t been big on the Christmas humour this year. Yes, there have been quite a few Christmas emails doing the rounds, but unfortunately, most of them have made the “made me laugh” grade. The attached did manage to amuse me somewhat though. Imagine for a second, that Santa Claus and [...]
Friday, December 21st, 2007
WARNING! Extreme guitar nerd content! If you are into either guitar, recording music, or listening to the music of Porcupine Tree, head over to one of my other sites in the super Swollen Pickles network and check out the guitar gear of Steven Wilson, vocalist, guitarist and producer of Porcupine Tree. I found some pictures [...]
Wednesday, December 19th, 2007
If you’ve been waiting for the next Batman movie, The Dark Knight, then I’m guessing the 18 July 2008 release date, currently being thrown around, can’t get here quick enough. Based on everything I’ve read and seen, the Dark Knight is set to carry on the grimy gothic vibe established in Batman Begins. The Joker [...]
Wednesday, December 19th, 2007
Now I’m going to bring it down a notch, and get somewhat serious. A friend of mine asked me the other day how did I go about selecting a web host. In the very early days, before I knew what wordpress was, I hosted SwollenPickles.com with a local hosting company. My first host was found [...]
Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
Ever since Swollen Pickles turned up on one of those “blogs with top commentators installed” lists, the number of comments here have increased quite a bit. I’ve also noticed quite a few inbound links coming from sites that seem to have cut and pasted the original list. The whole thing has made me wonder, are [...]
