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 [...]
Sunday, August 12th, 2007
Swollen Pickles has hit an all time high on the Top 100 Australian Blogs Index. As of the 9 August update, Swollen Pickles sits at number 40. In other news, I would recommend not catching the flu. It’s freakin’ terrible, and makes looking at a laptop screen unbearable! That will be all for now. Shameless [...]
Wednesday, August 8th, 2007
I’m not sure whether many people have picked up on this story or not, but Hyundai have come out in the last couple of days to say that they will be removing some safety features from the Santa Fe models. Where stability control and side airbags were once standard across their Santa Fe range, now [...]
Thursday, June 28th, 2007
I’m a massive guitar whore, so consider the following a public service announcement. Gibson are one of the biggest names in guitars. They are also quite expensive. Little wonder then that a massive counterfeit market has emerged. So your buying a new Les Paul, but have never had the opportunity to play the real thing [...]
Wednesday, June 27th, 2007
Well, it has now been well over a week since my HP notebook was sent back for further repairs. Thankfully it’s still under warranty. Today I had what could be a minor break through. The repairer will attempt one more fix, if that doesn’t work, my notebook will officially be announced dead, or the distant [...]
Thursday, June 21st, 2007
Thanks to the advice of Deaf Musician, I’m put together a list of blogs that are running themes that I like, or more specifically feature elements I would like to incorporate into my ‘perfect’ theme. Amongst other things, a lot of blogs listed are ones that I read regularly (or at least when I get [...]
Tuesday, June 19th, 2007
I’ve set myself a not so simple task. To create the perfect wordpress theme to use on swollenpickles. First step will be sitting down with a pen and paper to sketch the rough layout. Ideally I’d like to include ‘latest stories’ from my other sites in the footer (or somewhere else), although I haven’t fully [...]
Monday, June 18th, 2007
It has come to my attention that Swollen Pickles has become less ‘pimped’ and more ‘whore’d’ of late. This administration agrees. Whilst AuctionAds and Adsense are cool, they are taking up a lot of page real estate. They fact that neither are super earners on this site might see both of those programs scaled back [...]
Monday, June 18th, 2007
There is something missing in the cartoons of today. When I was young they used to mean something. They were entertaining and did a community service. Take 1980′s classic He-Man for example. He busted up bad guys then at the end taught you a little life lesson. I’m proud to say that He-Man made me [...]
Sunday, June 17th, 2007
Well I’ve been on the list for three weeks now and I’m slowly but surely climbing the ladder in the Top 100 Australian Blogs. As of the last update I’m number 76 on the list. With any luck Swollen Pickles will keep moving up the list.
Friday, June 15th, 2007
Welcome to part two of my two part series Top 10 TV show theme songs that will change your life. Today I will countdown from 5 through to number 1. If you need to catch up, check out part one, numbers 10-6. Allow me to continue…
