Wednesday, February 25th, 2009
Here’s an interesting little bit of information I stumbled across while randomly surfing through wikipedia this evening. It relates to World of Warcraft, so nerds can rejoice. For those unfamiliar with the game, your character can pick up diseases and/or curses when battling the enemy. Like in the real world, these things can be a [...]
Tuesday, February 24th, 2009
The motivational poster has served as the template for many a funny ‘fwd’ email. Case in point, one of my personal favorites, the motivational penguin. Ohhh… all this motivation stuff has me thinking of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs… saucy…
I digress. I received a few more ‘motivational poster’ themed pictures in my inbox today. I decided [...]
Monday, February 23rd, 2009
In LOST Benjamin Linus turned the wheel and everything changed. On Swollen Pickles, I did something and something bad happened. I recently upgraded the WordPress installation which seemed to screw up something with the comment form, then I realised that the layout wasn’t rendering how I wanted it to in IE, even though it looked [...]
Friday, February 20th, 2009
The early to mid 90’s was a golden period for basketball in Australia. National Basketball League (NBL) games were shown on free to air TV in prime time, the crowds were big, and kids were hitting the basketball court rather than the football oval. Andrew Gaze and Lanard Copeland were at their peak, and most [...]
Wednesday, February 18th, 2009
Lately I’ve been having difficulty finding the time to update all my blogs on a regular basis. There have been a number of activities competing for my time, one of which is the whole regular exercise thing, which has left me less time to work on my blogs. Less time means that I have to [...]
Tuesday, February 17th, 2009
Having just finished watching season three of Dexter, I am comfortable in saying that it is currently my favorite TV show. It’s got something for everyone – drama, intrigue, dark humor, and some coarse language.
Warning: What follows may contain spoilers.
Season three opens with out anti-hero Dexter in a good place. His life is in [...]
Friday, February 13th, 2009
The past few days I think I’ve uninstalled and reinstalled a phpBB3 bulletin board about 30 billion times… ok, 30 billion may be an exaggeration, but you get the idea. A while back I decided I wanted to start a forum to sit under the main site of my pet project Guitar FX Depot. To [...]
Monday, February 9th, 2009
January 2009 has flown by and has had a bit of everything. Holidays, movies, extreme record breaking heat. That’s summer for you. Now, walk with me, as we take a look at how I’m traveling in my goal project.
Goal Number One: Develop Swollen Pickles into a website that can generate $350US per month.
A relatively disappointing [...]
Friday, February 6th, 2009
It’s no secret that I lost faith in Google some time ago. I guess that’s because, in my opinion, Google has taken up the position as the defacto law maker of the web. Judge. Jury. Executioner. Google has the power to make or break businesses and start-ups. The problem with Google is the lack of [...]
Thursday, February 5th, 2009
Watching Mickey Rourke in The Wrestler, there will be times that you find yourself thinking that you are watching a documentary rather than a fictional film. The guy looks like he’s lived through a thousand hells, so when he’s playing a down and out wrestler, you believe it.
In The Wrestler, Rourke plays Randy “The Ram” [...]
Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009
Here’s some good news for anyone that’s looking to make a little extra cash online. WidgetBucks have increased their referral payouts to 15 per cent. In other words you earn a 15 per cent referral fee based on commissions earned by the publishers that you refer. This 15 per cent referral offer runs for the [...]
