I don’t know of how many of you will recall this, but when I gave out my last Pants Award, the recipient turned around and told me that I shouldn’t have criticised her site because she has terminal cancer. I’m not sure in what way the two are related — cancer doesn’t cause you to… read full entry »

Melissa and I had a short chat about Live.com search results in our stats a while ago. Long story short, a whole bucketload of search result click-throughs were showing up in our hits that were either a) irrelevant to our sites or b) were bullshit, because we weren’t ranked for that term anyway. This wasn’t… read full entry »

I’ve teamed up with Jordan at Holdfire hosting to offer 6 months hosting and a domain absolutely free in the rev.iew.me Christmas contest — review and win :)

If you’re bored of famfamfam’s silk icon set, why not try out “Fugue“? (Attribution necessary unless you pay a license fee.)

I’ve started updating every one of my scripts so that I can push important bug fixes and updates before Christmas, giving me time to relax and work on a few other things. Now is the time to shout about any possible features or complain about things you don’t like. If you’re making a suggestion, please… read full entry »

is it going to rain? — find out the weather & temp. without having to battle with bloated weather.com (or go outside)

Those of you doing their Christmas shopping online might be interested to know that Amazon are offering a free month trial of their Prime delivery thingy. I got £8 delivery for nothing today. (Just remember to cancel it before they charge your card next month!)

T’would be most appreciated if those of you with digg accounts could take the time to help me publicise the launch of rev.iew.me :)

rev.iew.me – THE website reviewing community opened it’s doors to the initial beta testers 2 weeks ago today, and here we are having amassed 329 users with 2009 points; 740 reviews on 87 sites totalling some 294,715 words; and over 10,000 page views so far today. If you’re interested, have some stats in all their… read full entry »

It’s fast approaching that time of year where I’m spending triple-digit sums on crap that people will look at once and then hide in the cupboard until they can find someone else to give it to. I actually quite enjoy spending money on people though, so it’s no big deal. One thing that does annoy… read full entry »