Saturday, November 10th, 2007
Firstly, I have one of those old school iPod minis. It a 6GB beast that, in comparison to the Nano’s and newer iPods, isn’t all that “mini”. The thing is, I like it, and it still works a treat, so I can’t really justify upgrading it. The only issue I have is that the battery’s [...]
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007
I’ve decided to go back to my humble beginnings, dredge through the historical Swollen Pickles archives, and take a look at how it all began. I thought I’d take a look at the first five posts published on SwollenPickles.com. A trip down memory lane if you like. Looking back at the first five, I have [...]
Friday, October 19th, 2007
Firstly, I need to thank Meg from Dipping into the Blogpond for sticking with her top 100 Australian blogs index. Any time I need an ego boost, I head over to her list to see where Swollen Pickles sits in the list. Currently this blog is sitting at number 20, which I’m more than happy [...]
Tuesday, September 18th, 2007
I like totally joined myspace the other day. Awesome. I achieved my first goal within one hour. That was to make Ja’mie from Summer Heights High my friend. I’m so grateful that she accepted me, even though I am fugly and kind of a random (her words, not mine). I’ve decided to set a new [...]
Thursday, September 13th, 2007
September looks like it’s going to obliterate all swollenpickles.com monthly traffic records. The first 11 days of September have seen 10,235 unique visits, blowing right past the previous record of 8,783 in August 2007. At the current rate, I’ll pass the 15,000 unique visits for the month goal within the next few days. Why the [...]
Monday, September 10th, 2007
Here’s a useful piece of information if you spend most of your day in front of a computer that has ‘restricted access’ to the internet. In other words, if you work somewhere that has blocked websites like facebook and myspace, then you’ll probably be interested in this crude little work around. Now this solution isn’t [...]
Friday, September 7th, 2007
As you may have read, a few days ago I found that I was having a few issues with bandwidth theft with people hotlinking to images on my auto blog without permission. I decided I’d have some fun for a couple of days by replacing the hotlinked images with some non-auto, border line inappropriate, images. [...]
Monday, September 3rd, 2007
Well it’s been over 24 hours since I identified the ‘bandwidth theft’ occurring on one of my other sites. It was the first time I’d found this happening, so I thought I’d conduct an experiment, firstly, to see what sort of images I could display on the offending site, and secondly, to see how long [...]
Monday, September 3rd, 2007
What do you do when someone steals your content? I’m talking a direct cut and paste here, word for word. Personally it pisses me off. Some lazy ass hat, not willing to put in the time to write something themselves, rips off your stuff, posts it, and then pinches some bandwidth while they are at [...]
Tuesday, August 28th, 2007
Heckling has never really struck me as a great idea. As a heckler, you’re hardly in a position of power. Sure you may have 5-10 maybe even 20 seconds to say your piece. But that’s it, then it’s the dude who is up on stages turn to return fire. What we have here is a [...]
Thursday, August 23rd, 2007
Sad news today from the National Geographic suggesting that Redheads, or Ginger Headed People, could become extinct within the next hundred years. Here’s an extract from a report featured in the Courier Mail: REDHEADS are becoming rarer and could be extinct in 100 years, according to genetic scientists. The current National Geographic magazine reports that [...]
