I’ve not posted for a while, so I thought I’d better just explain why I’ve been such a lazy-arsed blogger recently. Outside of the usual 9-5 stresses, the main reasons are: The World Cup Trying to work more on various web projects Continuing to renovate our house The house is taking a lot of time [...]

Google introduced a couple of neat features today in preparation for the 2010 World Cup (whoopie – can’t wait). The first was changing the pagination numbers at the bottom of the page to read “Gooooal” instead of “Goooogle”: Everyone loved this; Mashable featured it on their post (1100 Tweets at the time of writing this; I mean honestly) [...]

So, this isn’t my main post for this week (I’ll post something serious later this week), but I recently became aware of some horrible-ness on Youtube that warranted further investigation. I don’t profess to be an expert on viral marketing, but if I was going to create a viral video campaign, it would be NOTHING like [...]

Since Twitter launched in 2006, shortening URLs to squeeze into that 140 character limit has become a popular pursuit. There are many URL shorteners out there already; I’ve always used Bit.ly by default and never had any issues. But then, I’ve started to see more and more custom URLs being used by various people. Techcrunch has [...]

How did I let this happen? Well, no matter, I now have a blog. Now I just need to think of something to post….. I should probably thank Ahmad Fouad for his theme upon which my blog design is based; apart from the base64 encoded link in the footer, it’s a damn fine theme to start you off. You [...]