Thursday, January 31st, 2008
Another Google Bomb has been dropped, and I’m warning you, Tom Cruise will not be happy! If you’ve never heard of a Google Bomb before, it is when people try to influence the Google search results via linking and anchor text in order to associate a search term with a website. Actually Wikipedia probably describe [...]
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
A million people have probably said it a million times better than I can, but just in case it hasn’t been made clear to you yet, the film ‘Juno’ is brilliant. Juno is the story of a sixteen year old girl, Juno, played by Ellen Page (Shadowcat/Kitty Pryde from X-Men 3), who discovers that she [...]
Tuesday, January 29th, 2008
It took me a couple of weeks but I have finally updated my goals for the 2008 calender year. You can view the 2008 goal page here, or just click on ‘Goals’ in the top navigation bar. In a nutshell, here are the goals I have set for 2008: 1. Develop Swollen Pickles into a [...]
Sunday, January 27th, 2008
Every so often, you’ll stumble across a story that makes you sit up and scratch your head in amazement. Most of these sorts of stories involve stupid people, doing stupid stuff. I decided to search for ‘stupid people’ on YouTube, and this post is the result. Here’s a nice little news clip that’s up on [...]
Saturday, January 26th, 2008
Happy Australia Day people! Hope you’re having a good one, whether you’re cooking a barbie with beer in hand, perched on an esky watching the cricket, or walking along the beach wondering why your thongs are making that squeeking noise. A couple of aussie things to cross off my aussie ‘to do’ list today. Firstly, [...]
Thursday, January 24th, 2008
I thought it about time to highlight the top 5 blogs referring the most traffic to SwollenPickles.com over the past month. So here we go… Number 1: Wormbrain Wormbrain dominated the field in the past thirty days and has proven to be a referral champion. He’s also teaching the world stuff, such as how to [...]
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008
If you’ve watched the Melbourne news over the past week or two, then you’ll no doubt have heard of the sixteen year old “party boi” Corey Delaney. If you’ve been living under a rock, or just aren’t from around Melbourne, then party boi Corey organised a house party while his parents were on holidays. It [...]
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008
Since I first installed the ScratchBack Top Spots widget earlier this month, it has received 20,137 views (according to the statistics in the ScratchBack dashboard). In that time I have received five tips. In other words, five people tipped me, and have had their links displayed on my Top Spot during which time over 20,000 [...]
Monday, January 21st, 2008
What sort of ass master would think that it’s a good idea to steal content SwollenPickles.com? Hmmm… apparently the ‘BollywoodSpiceGuru’ thinks it’s a solid idea. To whoever you may be, I don’t really care how or why you’ve done it, but could you please stop doing it? The ass master thing aside, I’m trying to [...]
Saturday, January 19th, 2008
Here’s a magic eye puzzle type thing I found while checking my Entrecard inbox. Generally eye puzzle and/or 3D stuff drives me flipping crazy. This one is no exception. Take a look at the image below. It’s a checkers (or chess) style board with a large cylinder sitting on it. Take a good look at [...]
Thursday, January 17th, 2008
It would seem that TTZ Media is not for me. Having run a few ads on this and another site, the results are anything but encouraging. In around ten days I’ve received a grand total of 1 click, for an estimated payout of $0.15. I just need another $24.85 to reach the payout level. Sadly, [...]
