Archive for the ‘Geek’ Category

Left 4 Dead 2 trailer

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009

The first Left 4 Dead first person shooter on the Xbox 360 was a cracker of a game. Stupid, mindless, fun. If the teaser trailer for Left 4 Dead 2 is anything to go by, it looks like its makers have upped the ante in terms of splatter and potential for gore. The apparent introduction [...]

Tweet while you work

Friday, May 22nd, 2009

So you spend all day in a stuffy office, it’s hot, you’re hungry and you need to tell the world all about it. You need to “Tweet” it… but you don’t want your boss to bust you on Twitter. Here’s a more than handy solution – Spread Tweet.
Basically Spread Tweet allows you to follow Twitter [...]

The Snuggie is snugtastic

Monday, April 27th, 2009

Today I have some late night TV infomercial gold to share with you. If you’ve already seen this, please feel free to skip straight to the parody version.
For those unfamiliar with the Snuggie, it is an innovative powerhouse of a product, it’s a blanket… with sleeves! Glorious. The Snuggie is designed to keep your entire [...]

World of Warcraft plague and the real world

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 [...]

What’s more important, post frequency or post length?

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 [...]

phpBB3 spam annoys me

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 [...]

Google chips away at its own credibility

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 [...]

Leeeroy

Tuesday, January 20th, 2009

Now, 99% of the people that watch this video will probably groan, mumble something about “nerds” and click themselves to greener pastures. But there’s that 1% that will pi$$ themselves laughing when they see this. I don’t want it said that I don’t cater to the minority groups, so today, this is all about the [...]

My little bragging rights badge

Friday, January 9th, 2009

I’ve been messing around with Predictify for quite a while now, and I’ve found it to be an entertaining distraction. I’ve also made over $40 too which is an added bonus.
One of the latest features Predictify have released for their registered users is the ability to add a badge to you blog, website or social [...]

SwollenPickles looking back at 2008

Friday, December 26th, 2008

This is the time of year that people usually pump out the “…and that was the year that was” kind of stuff. I’m a lemming. So here’s my contribution.
2008 was an interesting year. I managed to keep this site up and running without breaking it. I started up a couple of other sites, with varying [...]

The little guy finally did it

Wednesday, December 24th, 2008

I don’t normally post “cute”, but seeing as though I’m on holidays I’ll have to be honest… I was looking for filler! Don’t be offended, it’s just that it’s hard for me to post when I’m sitting by the beach working on my tan and drinking drinks with little paper umbrellas in them. Plus, I [...]