Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
I logged into Predictify this morning after neglecting my account for a few weeks and noticed they have redesigned their site a little. The basic functionality is the same, however they’ve tarted it up slightly with some ‘web 2.0′ gradients. Very nice, but the real news is a noticed there were more paid predictions available [...]
Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
So I kept my promise to myself, and two weekends ago went to the book shop and bought, Darkly Dreaming Dexter, and it’s sequel, Dearly Devoted Dexter. Darkly Dreaming Dexter is the first book of the series that follows serial killer, who only kills the bad guys that deserve it, as he deals with some [...]
Monday, March 17th, 2008
Swollen Pickles is back online! For the past week or so I’ve been unable to post, or even log in to my WordPress administration panel. After much head scratching and pleading my host managed to fix the problem for me. Apparently it had something to do with the All In One SEO plugin I’d installed. [...]
Thursday, February 14th, 2008
Over the past month or so I’ve received a few emails and private messages in forums from people asking if they can advertise one my site. Obviously I’d love to make this happen, but at the moment I don’t have the know how, or the time, to sell ad space privately. With that in mind, [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
Wednesday, January 9th, 2008
The recent Sydney Test Match between Australia and India has proven that cricket is not necessarily a “gentlemen’s” sport. The 5 day match managed to stir up a lot of controversy in a very short period. It started with some dodgy umpiring decisions and ended with allegations of racism, with Harbhajan Singh allegedly calling Australia’s [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Sunday, December 9th, 2007
Today’s pet hate is tossers that walk around with their Bluetooth headset in place, talking on their mobile phones for all the world to hear. Like I really want to hear what someone elses lunch plans are, or how the painter was supposed to turn up at 11am but didn’t get there until 4pm. There [...]
