Here it is, proof that the failing economy has nothing to do with the credit crunch. Check out this picture, correct me if I’m wrong but, aren’t copper coins supposed to be non-magnetic?
I tried it with every coin I could find, not every one is magnetic. Some of the shiny new looking ones are, most of the old ones aren’t. read more… »
I just spent a few hours putting some affiliate program descriptions on to the blog under the page “affiliate programs”. They are all things that I use myself and would reccommend to anyone who is after a home based business.
The style for this theme is great and lets me create pages like this extremely quickly, this theme really is easy to use and update. I particularly like how you can use the same page template but with different content and sidebars so you can get exactly what you’re after.
I’ve also added snazzy date css bits to the posts which turned out to be easier than I thought because of the fine instructions at css-tricks.com
You can see instructions on how to create your own CSS date boxes here
So loud I actually had to turn my iPod down!
– Diego Perez
Just enter your guess in the comments of this post with the two lucky star numbers you think will come up on the Euromillions draw this Friday 5th September 2008 (two different numbers between 1 and 9)
The Euromillions has rolled over AGAIN
Another week added to this contest, enter now while you have the chance!
Noone managed to match the two lucky stars this week but GREAT NEWS! The Euromillions has rolled over again! Next week it should be around 114 MILLION Euros (that’s one lump sum!)
Thanks to everyone who entered last week, you’ll be pleased to know that your numbers stay locked in for next week (or until the Jackpot gets won)
I’m a member of VWD and as such, I get BOTH lucky star numbers guaranteed to be matched for my elottery euromillions syndicate meaning that my syndicate only needs to match the 5 main numbers and all the members of the syndicate become multi-millionaires!
To celebrate this wonderful opportunity to completely change your life forever, I am re-opening the regular contests that go on here whenever there is a rollover.
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I’ve had some phenomenal traffic and trackbacks to the CommentLuv plugin page since I made it and with all that action it has upped the plugin page to a PR of 6.
Now, I know PR isn’t so widely worshipped as much as it used to be but, PR is like money… it’s not until you have it that you realize that it’s not that important. Unless, you don’t have it and then it seems like everything will get better if only you did have it! 
So here’s an idea that could get someone the fame and fortune that comes with writing a new plugin, I’ve written a few custom plugins for this site and I thought it might be nice to run a contest for the chance for someone to be the offical site for the plugin. (beware, I have had literally thousands of comments on the commentluv page! so be prepared to get a ton of your own comments if you win)
The link for the plugin page on the plugins’ dashboard page would point to the winners site.
The winners site will be the ‘official’ place for the plugin so it will be shown in the readme, on the wordpress codex download page and anywhere else someone writes a review of the plugin. If I update the plugin then I notify you and you can update the plugin release page.
The choice of plugins:
I checked my stats just now and my jaw dropped, after just over 1 year of blogging, I have finally gone past the million hits a month mark!
I’ve also noticed my Alexa rank go to lower and lower numbers over the past few weeks too. As I write this it is at 61,627 which puts me in the top 7000 websites in the UK. rule brittania!!
It looks as though not much has changed in the way of which posts are most popular, just how much more traffic they get.
I think it’s time I released a new plugin. It’ll be the contest notify one that you might see drop down on this post. It frees a spot for a featured post and allows you to continue writing posts without worrying about dropping the contest post too far down the screen so it doesn’t get enough attention.
Hopefully that can take me up a few more hits or so!
Take a look at the screenshot of my current stats page below.. read more… »
I’ve had another few days of intensive coding and completed a few plugins that can help with the new theme.
I can’t believe that only last week I was feeling burnt out with coding! All I needed was a little “I wonder if I could …” php demon in my ear and I was off. Everything else has suffered though, I have barely talked to anyone in the past 3 days. I haven’t even answered any text messages! lol. I must be a hermit
Here’s what I’ve been up to:
<a href=”"><img class=”imgleft” src=”" title=”" alt=”"/>Rhys from GospelRhys.co.uk made some really interesting points about a recent report that the North of England was beyond repair and they should all just come down here to London where everything is smashing (windows) all the time!
A couple of weeks ago, my missus said she needed to visit her brother up north for a week to help out with his shop.
She was dreading it! She’s lived in London for yearsnyearsnyears and couldn’t possibly imagine that anything outside of London exists, our conversations would go like this… read more… »
I’m really pleased to announce that the old theme for FiddyP has gone bye bye, it was a great theme and it was really nice to know that no one on the planet had it too. Now, I have spent some time with wp-remix 2 developer edition and I can report that it is good, real good, so good I could nibble its’ ear.
I particularly like how it has so much sexy css built in and you can create new pages and edit the template on the fly and choose which sidebar you want.
There’s some custom code put here and there and that’s whats taken all the time, the rest seems to flow together so easily and I’m really looking forward to adding some great content like the ajax tutorial series and a whole bunch of new nested pags with online tools and scripts.
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I finally got around to having a day in front of the pc to do my new theme, I’ve been fiddling and playing about with the template code for ages and it’s really starting to come together!
I’ve even written a few custom plugins for it..
A latest picture from flickr relating to the title of a post on the front page
new lotto results with added links!!!
a custom script include in the header per post (using custom fields)
updated commentluv again
I am pretty sure I’ll get some sort of working theme up by the weekend if I get some more time, the biggest hurdles are done though. The rest is just prettying up.
Hope to see you soon!!
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Trying out the AJAX version of CommentLuv here
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I’ve been working on the AJAX version of commentluv for quite a while, I think I have it working ok enough for it to do it’s dry run on a blog. The functionality is fine, I just have to work on the details so it can be installed easily as a plugin.
Now, when you start to type your comment it will go off and fetch your last posts from the feed found at the URL given. It even allows you to choose which of your posts you want included.
It’s still pretty new and a bit clunky but it seems to do the job, if you’re having any issues with it please let me know!
Blog Tools, Code, PHP, ajax