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Last week I released a new icon set over on Pro Theme Design. When I first started on the set I had two objectives. 1 – to spend some time learning how to make icons properly, and 2 – to...

I got banned from Technorati a long time ago. Apparently releasing free themes is bad (and get’s lots of inbound links) only fair I guess 🙁Anyway, Technorati have dropped off my radar recently, their constant redesigns and confused product are...

Unfortunately I have been dragged down into the world of Twitter. Twitter is a web app that enables people to talk rubbish at no-one in particular and then receive a response from someone they don’t know. I’ve never seen the...

37Signals have recently posted a couple of articles on improving the workplace experience and they’re doing things I can only dream of. The posts in questions are workplace experiments, and fire the workaholics.Workplace experimentsSome of their ideas are great. I...

A year and a bit ago I wrote a tutorial on splitting the comments, trackbacks and pingbacks up on your wordpress blogs. Then a few months ago Daniel from DailyBlogtips wrote a post on the same subject (a couple people...

The last couple of months I have been spending my free time working on a new website and premium theme.The website is called Pro Theme Design, and the theme is Mimbo Pro.Pro Theme DesignPro Theme Design is a WordPress theme...

I bought an EEE PC the other day, and so far am very impressed.These little machines are very small, and very handy and, most impressively, very cheap. They’ve been around for about 5/6 months now but, in the UK at...

My girlfriend Jo and I have recently (actually… 2 weeks ago – I’ve been too busy to write it up :-S) gotten back from a holiday in California, which is last months excuse for the lack of posts on my...

In my excitement to get the BM-Comment-Highlight plugin out yesterday I forgot to tell you how to actually use the thing. Also since posting it yesterday I have though of another feature for the plugin so I have updated it...

A couple of weeks ago I mentioned how to upload plugins to WordPress.org – and now I give to you, my second WordPress plugin – bm-comment-highlight.Comment Highlight does exactly what it says on the tin. If you look around you...

I recently got my bm-custom-login plugin accepted onto the Wordress plugin repository. In order to get it online I had to use subversion – something I’ve never used before.I found the “using svn page” on wordpress.org to be rather intimidating....

I went to see The Golden Compass last week – the film of the book with the same name (although sometimes called Northern Lights). I mentioned the trailer before, and though tit looked great, but wasn’t sure what to expect...

This news is actually a little old but since we’ve just had the Christmas holiday I figure I can give myself a bit of slack. That and it’s my blog so I’ll post whatever I like whenever I like 🙂The...

Recently a UK politician claimed teens playing games is making them less intelligent, in fact the following quote comes from a very popular tabloid – the Sun. KIDS hooked on computer games have sent England plummeting down world league tables...

When it comes to movies I’m a huge fan of fantasy and mythology.When it comes to myths you can’t get any more classic than the epic poem, Beowulf.When I found out that Beowulf was going to come to the Imax,...

Finally – an update to Regulus. The updates are coming further and further apart, and this is simply because the theme does everything I set out to do… and quite a bit more. This version is mostly bug fixes but...

Whilst working on my update to Binary Moon I’ve been thinking about the differences between websites and blogs. One of the things I am trying to do with the updated design is steer slightly away from the stereotypical blog layout...

Stardust is a fantastic film about doing what is right and the quest for love (and the fact that you won’t always find love where you expect too). Stardust - Yvainne, fallen star The story is based upon a Neil...

Went to see Run, Fat boy, Run at the cinema the other day. It was really good.I’ve become a bit of a fan of Simon Pegg, Hot Fuzz being one of the big reasons why. Somehow he has made being...

Shortly before we went to see Damien Rice my girlfriend bought tickets for us to go and see Athlete at the Norwich UEA LCR (University of East Anglia LCR… don’t know what the last bit means). Last night it was...

My blogging has been rather slow for the last few weeks. I have a number of small posts lined up for publishing but haven’t had the time to finish any of them. Thankfully it hasn’t just been laziness – I...