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Posts#

2022#

  • Jubilee Crown Papercraft – and how I made it

2021#

  • Randomness with PHP
  • Creating Generative Art with PHP
  • How to get a list of all WordPress Blocks in the Editor
  • Take Control of WordPress Plugin and Theme Notifications
  • New WordPress Plugin: Translate Words
  • Creating a Twitter Maze Bot
  • Fixing Gutenberg Image Floats

2020#

  • How to fix “Invalid default value” MySQL error on WordPress database
  • Fathom Analytics: A Privacy First Analytics Solution
  • Pixel Avatars; a Privacy first Gravatar replacement
  • WP Cafe – Developing Themes with Gutenberg
  • Learning is hard, and so is React
  • Does WordPress Need a Grid System?

2019#

  • It’s not all bad for WordPress themes – is it?
  • The End of WordPress Themes is in Sight
  • Toolbelt – WordPress Privacy and Speed
  • Why do people use Medium (the online content publisher)?
  • WordCamp London 2019
  • Remove Jetpack Social Links
  • Tada: And now your website is faster!
  • The WordPress Block Directory
  • Open Source Sustainability
  • Gutenberg Phase 2 and the Future of WordPress Themes
  • Childish Arguments over Technology
  • Thanks for the WordPress Make Blogs!
  • WordPress May Not Be For You!
  • Slim SEO WordPress Plugin
  • How I Learn in Public
  • Javascript VS. HTML & CSS
  • WordPress as a Facebook Replacement?
  • Should Everyone Learn Javascript Deeply?
  • 2018 In Review, and Plans for 2019

2018#

  • WordPress and a Faster Internet
  • Regarding Accessibility in Gutenberg
  • Contributing to WordPress
  • Smashing Book 6 Review: New Frontiers In Web Design
  • Gutenberg Cloud – the Ultimate Open Source Project?
  • WordPress get_post_gallery() Gutenberg Polyfill
  • Defaulting to the Gutenberg Classic Editor – Fixing Gutenbergs Paragraphs
  • Patreon. The Future of Blog Monetisation?
  • What’s the Deal with Google AMP?
  • Finding the Essence of a Product
  • Chrome for Android may start disabling JavaScript on 2G connections
  • Using Gutenberg in Real World Projects
  • Mythic WordPress Starter Theme, and Thinking About All Developers
  • Gutenberg Reactions: Mixed Feedback?
  • What Non-Disabled People Get Wrong About Accessibility
  • Learning ReactJS for Designers
  • YouTube Playback Speed Chrome Extension
  • GutenReady for the Gutenpocalypse – Educating Gutenberg
  • HTTPS is Easy
  • Why WordPress designers should consider design systems for their themes
  • Brush Ninja
  • WordPress: The Difference Between is_home and is_front_page
  • Website Colour Analyzer
  • Getting Started With Github Desktop

2017#

  • Tech21 Evo Check Phone Case Review and Giveaway
  • Pixel Peak – a Teeny Weeny Skiing Game
  • Rescuing the MillionDollarHomepage
  • Using Git Hooks to Clear Cloudflares Cache
  • Fixing Theme Issues with WordPress 4.8 Media Widgets
  • Fixing Typographic Widows in WordPress
  • New Adventures in Jekyll
  • How to Hide the Archive Title Prefix in WordPress
  • WordPress Jetpack Admin Backup: For When There are Problems
  • 2016 – a Year Reviewed

2016#

  • Adding a bit of Fun to my WordPress Themes Build Process
  • Generating a WordPress rtl.css with Gulp
  • Setting up Gulp for WordPress – and Checking TextDomains Automatically
  • Automating WordPress Development with Gulp, Bash, and PHP
  • Improving Habits with Habitica
  • Lessons Learned from 20 Theme Releases on WordPress.com
  • Mysterious Cities of Gold
  • Schedule content with Automatic Post Scheduler
  • Adding a Portfolio to Binary Moon using Jetpack
  • What is the Difference Between WordPress.org and WordPress.com?
  • Using Github for Copywriters (via the Github website)
  • MasterWP – A Free Course to Improve Your WordPress Skills
  • My WordPress Wishlist
  • Carmack: WordPress Magazine Theme
  • It’s All About Me
  • Legend of Dad – A HTML5 Game made with Phaser
  • My Rules to Live By
  • Empathy in Web Design
  • Why My WordPress Themes Site Doesn’t Use WordPress
  • Dogfooding a New WordPress Design
  • Growing Up
  • Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

2015#

  • Jetpack Photon on Secure Domains (HTTPS)
  • My Experience Submitting a Free theme to WordPress.org
  • Pro Theme Design Themes Club
  • Reasons to Use Jetpack with WordPress
  • WordPress Theme Club Comparison
  • How to Add a Contact Form to Your Website Using Formspree
  • Honor 6 Phone Review
  • Simple PHP Colour Manipulation Functions
  • The Pro Theme Design Rap
  • Adding Menu Descriptions to WordPress Menus
  • Disabling Website URLs in WordPress Comments
  • The State of WordPress Themes #wcldn
  • 9 Photo Composition Tips
  • How I do Icon Design With Sketch
  • Honor 6 Design Competition

2014#

  • Kontrol Freek Gaming Accessories
  • WordPress 4.1 Improvements for Theme Developers
  • Disabling Comments on a WordPress Demo Site
  • Calculating nth-child CSS Selector Formulae
  • Updating SourceTree Git Login Credentials
  • 9 Hot Tips for Choosing the Perfect Domain Name for Your Site
  • Adobe Dreams (and What I Replaced Adobe Software With)
  • Qora
  • Closing Shop at Pro Theme Design
  • TimThumb is No Longer Supported or Maintained
  • Localised Estimated Reading Time
  • Nomad Chargekey for iPhone
  • A Comedians Take on Web Usability
  • I No Longer Use TimThumb – Here’s What I do Instead
  • New TimThumb Exploit Found
  • CSS: Ignoring Hover Events
  • Big Hero 6 Teaser Trailer
  • The Psychology of Done – or – How to Not do Things
  • Using Youtube Thumbnails on your Websites
  • How to Get Started With WordPress Theme Development
  • Watchdogs Story Trailer
  • eBay Takes on Pinterest With Their New Collections [Sponsored Post]
  • Hive – WiFi Thermostat Review
  • HTML & CSS: How to Create a Fluid Width Stack of Paper With a Single Element
  • Fixing CSS Transitions in Google Chrome
  • Blobcat Game: Post Holiday Update

2013#

  • Blobcat – a Game in a Day
  • WordPress Improved Human Time Difference
  • Note to Self: Using SVN Diff
  • WordPress – Estimated Reading Time
  • WordPress Numeric Pagination
  • My First WordCamp EU
  • How to Use Bitbucket with Github for Mac
  • Rime – My Dream Video Game
  • New WordPress Theme Isca Released
  • How to Make SlideShare Responsive With FitVid.js
  • Using WP_DEBUG to Improve CSS and Style Enqueues in WordPress
  • The Death of WordPress Theme Frameworks
  • Elliot Quest – Zelda Style Game Needs Help
  • Brush Ninja – An Upcoming HTML5 Animation Website
  • UCam247 – Security Camera Review
  • Queen Elizabeth II and Me
  • 6 SEO Tips for Non-Techies
  • A Redesign for 2013
  • The Last Of Us and PS4 Game Sharing
  • WordPress: 10 Years Young, What Does The Future Hold?
  • 11 Things Your Boss Expects You to Know About WordPress
  • Website Content Strategy – Write a Blog Plan and Stick to It
  • Redesigning the WordPress Post Editor
  • My First Website
  • WordPress Query: Exclude Posts With No Featured Image
  • Automatic WordPress Updates on Nearlyfreespeech.net With ManageWP
  • Mastering the Psychology of Colour Theory in Web Design
  • Designing Perfection – A Waste of Time?
  • The Amazing Art of Flipping Websites
  • Voice Based Image Editing – PixelTone
  • How to Find, Select, and Purchase the Perfect Domain Name
  • Better Than Grep
  • Pro Theme Design Blogging
  • A WordPress News Website Resurgence
  • Please Just Tell Me What You Want!
  • The Ethics of WordPress Automatic Content Aggregration (Autoblogs vs Splogs)
  • Mimbo Pro 4
  • How I Averted a Blogging ‘Crisis’: 3 Lessons Learned

2012#

  • Learning to Accept CSS3: Creating CSS3 Windows
  • 5 Things to do to Prepare your Blog for the Holiday Season
  • Grovember – a Recap
  • Man of Steel
  • Disable PHP Short tags
  • CSS Highlight Colour
  • Experiments With 3D Printing
  • Jetpack: The Ultimate WordPress Plugin?
  • Caseable – Customizable iPad Cases and More…
  • Clearing CSS Floats Without Markup
  • Aggregator Theme in the Wild
  • Grovember – Raising Awareness of Bowel Cancer
  • Browser Shots WordPress Plugin
  • WordPress Pagination with Custom WordPress Queries
  • WordPress Social Network Aggregation
  • Virgin TV Anywhere – the future of Television?
  • iPhone 5 and the Golden Age of Computing
  • The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
  • Quick Tips: Taking Screenshots on a Mac
  • 7 Uknown Mac Apps You Might Find Helpful
  • Internet Explorer 7: Should We Stop Supporting it?
  • The Pro Theme Design – WordPress Rap
  • My 3D Art Portfolio
  • Epic – New Movie Trailer
  • Pushing Myself to the Limit
  • Perfection is overrated… right?
  • European 2 Letter Country Codes Cheat Sheet
  • Mimbo Pro Released on WordPress.com
  • Draw Something
  • iPhone Game in More than a Day
  • An iPhone Game in One Day?
  • Building Elemental 2: Simplifying Through Reduction
  • Building Elemental 2: Getting Started
  • Have you heard of WordPress $content_width?
  • TimThumb Configurations
  • Mimbo Pro 3: The Classic WordPress Theme Updated
  • Game of Thrones Season 2
  • Complete TimThumb Parameters Guide
  • Customising WordPress Custom Headers in Child Themes
  • Legend of Zelda: The Lost Oracle
  • WordPress Theme Framework: Less Is More – Or Is It?

2011#

  • New Xbox 360 – Just For Games?
  • A Strange Request and Your Chance to win £200 of Amazon Vouchers
  • Brave – Pixar – Awesome
  • Business Lessons from Innocent Drinks
  • Star Wars: Clone Wars, Series 3 DVD Review
  • Paul and The Big Lebowski
  • TimThumb 2.0
  • It’s Kind of a Funny Story – Movie Review
  • Meteora, Exhibitor and Byline – New WordPress Themes
  • A Day in the Life of a Web Designer
  • Choosing What to Add to a Premium Theme
  • TimThumb Quality Settings
  • How To Fix WordPress and Mod Security 2
  • Simple WordPress Post Thumbnails with Regular Expressions
  • Optimizing WordPress 404’s
  • Game of Thrones: Winter is Coming
  • TimThumb Proportional Scaling
  • Binary Moon Traffic Stats: February
  • Elemental Hub – New WordPress Blog
  • WordPress Tip: Modifying pluggable.php – How To Disable Emails
  • Give Your Blog Some Loving This Valentines Day
  • Binary Moon Traffic Stats: The Beginning
  • How to Contribute to TimThumb
  • My Plans For 2011

2010#

  • A New Secret to Increasing Your Page Views
  • TimThumb: Improved Speed and Other Changes
  • WordPress Advent – Seasonal WordPress Savings
  • How I Increased Daily Twitter Followers by 300% in 10 minutes
  • The Best Way to Use TimThumb with a CDN (and Why Amazon S3 Is Not so Good)
  • TimThumb Troubleshooting Secrets
  • Spring Cleaning in Autumn
  • Hub Pages – the Center of your SEO Universe
  • Unexpected Benefits of A/B Testing
  • Nominate; New WordPress Theme Released
  • Using TimThumb Part 4: Moving the Crop Location
  • Using TimThumb Part 3: Image Filters
  • Using TimThumb Part 2: External Websites
  • Using TimThumb part 1: Getting Started
  • The Green Zone
  • Easy WordPress Updates: Store FTP Info in wp-config.php
  • Sumo Gamer Bean Bag
  • Hints and Tips to Make Your WordPress Development Easier
  • Improve Your Blog, Revisit Old Content
  • Lowercase p, dangit! WordPress Controversy
  • Screenflow and My First Screencast
  • The Wolfman
  • Facebook Hackathon 2010
  • WordPress Caching, part 3: Custom Caching Library
  • How to Remove the Google Background Image
  • What do you want me to write about?
  • Inception – Awesome New Movie Trailer
  • CSS Only Button – Redux
  • Optimizing Binary Moon
  • WordPress caching, Part 2
  • Add Website Favicons to Your WordPress Comments in 5 Minutes
  • 6 Tips to Build Better WordPress Themes
  • file_get_contents : An Alternative to cURL
  • How to Integrate Twitters @Anywhere with your WordPress Comments
  • How to Add Widgets to your WordPress Themes
  • Just Added Twitters @Anywhere to Binary Moon
  • How to Build the Perfect WordPress Sitemap
  • Creating Words of Wisdom
  • Using cURL to Read the Contents of a Web Page
  • 9
  • WordPress Caching, Part 1: The Basics
  • March Movie Madness
  • No More April Fools
  • 10 WordPress query_posts tips you probably don’t know
  • Toy Story 1, 2 and 3
  • Realigning James Woodcock dot com
  • Quick and Easy Popular Posts for Your WordPress Blog – in Only 1 Line of Code
  • Prince of Persia – Sands of Time Trailer
  • Using the Yahoo Weather API (in your WordPress themes)
  • WordPress Http – Read Content From Other Websites
  • How to Use Akismet in your Plugin or Theme to Stop Spam Dead
  • February Film Reviews
  • Creating Your Own WordPress Permalink Structure For Custom Content
  • An Intro to WordPress Filters: How to Add Custom Stuff to your RSS Feed
  • An Automated Way to Take Screenshots of any Website, for Free, using Automattics MShots API
  • Building WPVote Part 7: Almost Done
  • New WordPress Theme, Accumulo, and New Free Plugin
  • Building WPVote Part 6 : Planning for Lift Off
  • Building WPVote Part 5 : Programming
  • Building WPVote : Part 4b, The Logo Revisited
  • Building WPVote Part 4 : Design
  • Back and Forward: Plans for 2010

2009#

  • Building WPVote Part 3 : Research
  • Building WPVote Part 2 : Planning
  • WordPress MU 2.8: Beginner’s Guide review
  • Building WPVote Part 1: The Beginning
  • Get Your Google Wave Invites Here
  • Bruno
  • WordPress Developer Cookbook
  • Optimising Social Media Activity
  • Public Enemies
  • Art Direction
  • Coraline
  • UP
  • iPod Nano and iTunes giveaway winners
  • iPod Nano giveaway
  • Fast and Furious – iTunes giveaway
  • WordPress 2.9 – the_post_image
  • Toy Story 3 Trailer
  • How to Make TimThumb Work With WordPress Multisite
  • Elemental WordPress Theme Released
  • The Boat That Rocked – iTunes Movie Review
  • What’s new with the Elemental WordPress theme?
  • Frost/ Nixon – NBC Universal iTunes movie
  • Learning to Learn: how to improve yourself
  • Binary Moon WordPress design vIII
  • WordPress 2.7 Complete, competition results
  • Binary Moon version III – now live!
  • WordPress 2.7 Complete Book Review and Give Away
  • Doritos, an advergaming case study
  • Duplicity : an iTunes movie review
  • Ninja Assassin – new from the Wachowskis
  • Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
  • TimThumb Beta Test
  • Fussing over the (web design) details
  • District 9 trailer – new movie from Peter Jackson and Neill Blomkamp
  • A Brief History of TimThumb
  • 5 web business lessons to be learnt from Avenue Q
  • iPod Touch
  • Elemental Development (aka what I’m doing at the moment)
  • Joss Whedons Dollhouse
  • 5 reasons why I don’t follow you on Twitter
  • The future of WordPress themes
  • Goodbye to blogging (as we know it)
  • Mimbo Pro 2.0
  • Up
  • Balsamiq Mockups Review
  • Bolt
  • Hints and tips for Twitter noobs (and celebs)
  • Top 17 – UK celebs on Twitter
  • Snow Day(s)
  • Back into the groove…

2008#

  • A quick way to speed up your website
  • Tales of Beedle the Bard – new from JK Rowling
  • A’capella
  • 6 reasons why Lego is the best toy ever!
  • Ascension
  • Wall-E + Lego = Awesome
  • Star Wars: The Clone Wars
  • Sumo Omni Bean Bag at Miniclip
  • Chrome – first thoughts
  • WordPress 2.7 and Crazyhorse
  • A short history of Miniclip.com
  • Sumo Omni Bean Bag
  • Wall-E
  • Ben and Jerry (and Jo)
  • Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince trailer and new Harry Potter book
  • BBC Olympics 2008 ident
  • Harry Potter prequel
  • Dr Horrible
  • New plugin : BM Admin Tweak
  • Seven useless pieces of information about me
  • Anti smoking video game (advert)
  • Redesigning the WordPress admin Redesign
  • Mystery on 5th Avenue
  • Big Buck Bunny
  • Google hosted javascript libraries
  • A brief history of sex in video games
  • How I built BenGillbanks.co.uk in a little over 2 hours
  • Wall-E in real life
  • WordPress themes, and assumed responsibility
  • Star Wars Animated series
  • The trials and tribulations of maintaining multiple websites
  • Mimbo Pro sale, now on
  • New Icon Set : Circular
  • New UK coin designs
  • How to stop your WordPress blog from being hacked (or banned by Technorati)
  • Twitter me this
  • Fun with Physics
  • Flying Penguins?
  • WordPress 2.5 Custom Login – get ’em here!
  • In the workplace
  • bm trackPing – comments, trackbacks and pingbacks separated
  • ABC-3D
  • My thoughts on premium WordPress themes
  • Pro Theme Design and Mimbo Pro
  • Virtual Japanese Girlfriend
  • EEE PC and me
  • Battle of Normandy … on a shoestring
  • Happy Holidays – California
  • Flash game Roll updated – now with high scores
  • BM-Comment-Highlight Guide
  • New WordPress Plugin – BM Comment Highlight
  • Disney Interactive map on the DS
  • Where’s Wall-E – a brief history of Pixar in-jokes
  • A 3 step guide to getting your WordPress plugin onto WordPress.org
  • The Queen likes Wills Wii
  • New Windows Mobile leaked… looks good
  • The Golden Compass

2007#

  • Tales of Beadle the Bard sold
  • Adobe Flash art by Erik Natzke
  • Videogames don’t make people stupid! Do they?
  • Speed Racer
  • Robot Fighting
  • Saddest cubicle contest
  • Beowulf
  • Regulus 2.3 theme update
  • Trigger Happy for free
  • Minority Report a reality?
  • Crestock Photoshop competition
  • Websites versus Blogs
  • Portal Papercraft
  • Scientists, Tesla coils, and Super Mario
  • His Dark Materials
  • Stardust
  • Top Gear – 1964 Peel P50
  • Run, Fat boy, Run
  • Athlete at Norwich LCR
  • Star Wars pixelled
  • Wall-E from Pixar
  • Incredible Machine
  • Roll – Flash Game
  • Ratatouille out this week
  • Radioheads new album – pay as much as you like
  • Inspirational speech
  • UnJUSTIFY text on other peoples websites
  • Ben’s Brother and Alice McLaughlin
  • Flash 10 – first info
  • Star Wars – Reverse References
  • Top 10 Tips for driving traffic AWAY from your website
  • JazJaz : Site Review
  • LeechBlock – Firefox productivity extension
  • Real 3d Holographics
  • The Simpsons Movie
  • Get $25 for free with Auction Ads
  • Homebrew Space photography
  • How to Optimise : Time Based Adsense
  • Amazing Image resizing technology
  • My Top 5 Tips For Increasing Adsense Earnings (Without Increasing Traffic)
  • A Lego production line building Lego cars
  • Link Competition winners…
  • Bioshock art book released for free
  • Links competition now closed
  • BlogLouder launched
  • I’ve been interviewed
  • Sega Rally Preview
  • Harry Potter – Unanswered Questions Answered
  • Ripper – Buffy “sequel” in production
  • Binary Moon Links Competition
  • WordPress Tips and Tricks – Custom Login Page
  • Upcoming WordPress updates
  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Review
  • Ratatouille Review: Part 2
  • Damien Rice at the Brighton Dome
  • Ratatouille Review: Part 1
  • Ratatouille Panoramic images
  • Hydra – make your own video games console
  • Starwars + Millenium Falcon + Lego = Great!
  • 3 Reasons why I suck as a blogger
  • WordPress tips and tricks – custom 404 (error) pages
  • Legend of Zelda Symphony
  • Ratatouille videos and preview
  • WordPress tips and tricks – Custom Page Templates
  • Wooden, Binary calculator
  • Your online neighbourhood
  • Harry Potter Conspiracy Theories #4
  • An underwater Office
  • WPZipper.com relaunch
  • Custom Paper Toys
  • Wicked Crispy – Star Wars cuteness
  • Eee pc – small, light, I want one!
  • Making Wii friendly pages
  • WordPress Sandbox Designs competition
  • 5 Google Analytics things I would change
  • A Nintendo Wii Review
  • WordPress tips and tricks – functions.php
  • Binary Moon search results
  • Miniclip interview
  • More Hugs Please
  • Batman: The Dark Knight – viral advertising
  • Spiderman 3 Review
  • Mona Lisa drawn in Microsoft Paint
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
  • Lego Johnny 5
  • New Google Updates (Analytics, Reader, Adsense, and Checkout)
  • A lesson learned
  • Grandtheft Auto stunts
  • Acrobots – flash toy
  • Slow posting on Binary Moon – I now have a Wii
  • The Virginia Tech tragedy and violent video games
  • Penn and Teller on Creationism: Bullshit
  • 300 + Paulo = Xerxes?
  • Boku – game making for infants?
  • Ratatouille – Pixar movie trailer
  • Batman fan movie
  • Crysis level editor
  • 3 rules of effective cutscenes
  • 12 ways to pimp your office
  • Ninja Turtle competition ending soon
  • Google Desktop themes – easter eggs
  • Google Desktop Themes
  • New Turtles Footage
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TMNT) movie – competition
  • 300 – Comic Book to Screen
  • User Interface Bloopers
  • Firefox Extensions I can’t live without
  • Top 10 funniest gadgets
  • Hot Fuzz
  • Regulus in Russian – Tutorial
  • ReviewMe introductory offer
  • Real Life Platform Ninja
  • New computer = new software to install
  • Race in video games
  • DoFollow
  • Videogames blamed for… everything!
  • Spiderman 3 – first look
  • Gun Wing, new Binary Sun game released
  • Dave Bollingers Pixel Robots
  • Ugobe Pleo – an Aibo replacement
  • How to find out what people want
  • Swatch Infinity – Cool new watch
  • Harry Potter fanfic
  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows release date announced
  • New Google Adsense Design?
  • Disney Ads Featuring Your Favorite Celebs
  • Creatures of Harryhausen
  • Yamipod – itunes replacement for your ipod
  • Guitar Hero + Dragonforce combo
  • George RR Martin tv series?
  • .Net magazine – out now – featuring me!
  • 50% off Yo! Sushi
  • Crazy fighting game
  • Time in Istanbul

2006#

  • In game ads don’t work?
  • Video Games are good for the brain
  • Time in France
  • A cat in a bowl
  • Free icons
  • Eragon – all pervasive
  • Elebits – domino course
  • Firebug 1.0 beta released
  • 24 Ways (web design stuff)
  • Blogging for money – should I do it?
  • Malaysia – Taman Negara
  • Wonderlost – Alice in Wonderland
  • Regulus 2.2.1 update
  • Malaysia – The East Coast
  • What has blogging given me?
  • Malaysia – Cameron Highlands
  • Good open source software
  • Zamzar – Free online file conversion
  • Malaysia – Kuala Lumpur and Pangkor
  • Cool places to work
  • WordPress Tips and Tricks – Post in Advance
  • I am back from Malaysia
  • The reality of beauty
  • I am on holiday in Malaysia
  • Movie Roundup – September 06
  • Regulus 2.2 – now with translations
  • walkit and save the world!
  • Eudora to partner with Mozilla (Thunderbird) and go open source
  • Coverpop – Pink for October
  • Top 10 Sony lies
  • Binary Joy – gaming news and reviews website
  • Google Page Rank changes – I’m on the up!
  • Living Stones
  • Photoshop Video Tutorial
  • Regulus WordPress Theme in your language!
  • Paper Art
  • Star Wars changelog
  • Bush to hold talks with Kazakhstani president over Borat
  • Generate xml Sitemaps for static sites
  • Free video games AND get free money…
  • Movie Roundup – August 06
  • Videogame Guys… erm… Gals
  • Banksy strikes again – Paris Hilton is the victim
  • video game artist
  • Top 50 Hasselhoff videos
  • Make your own Xbox 360 game
  • Coca Cola meets Grand Theft Auto
  • Okami Preview
  • Firefly and Serenity
  • Architecture in Helsinki – Do the Whirlwind
  • Movie Roundup – July 06
  • Playboy 31st anniversary advert
  • “Advertising” – The Million Dollar Homepage for real
  • New Miniclip website
  • Legitimate comment spam?
  • Snacksby – like MacGuyver but for food
  • Monopoly replaces cash with credit card
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles – Movie Trailer
  • Nintendo DS – Web Browser preview
  • The Prestige – new Christopher Nolan movie
  • Rubbish (dangerous) design
  • Nintendo give George W Brain Age: Train your brain for his birthday
  • Movie Roundup – June 06
  • David Hasselhoff – new single – Jump In My Car
  • Game links roundup
  • Miniclip wins Webby Award – I get to go to New York
  • crappy iPod?
  • Get Hasselhoff to number 1
  • Movie Review – Confetti
  • Movie Roundup – May 06
  • One thousand paintings
  • Web Game : Monkey Kick Off
  • Cloaking device to become reality?
  • Another E3 round-up
  • Review : Shadow of the Colossus
  • Neo vs. Robocop with a special guest appearance
  • Getty Images – Interact 10 Ways
  • Final Fantasy III
  • New Super Mario Brothers
  • E3 2006 hi-lights
  • Mission Impossible 3
  • New David Hasselhoff gallery
  • Miniclip wins a Webby Award – yay for me!
  • Movie Roundup – April 06
  • Terragen – gorgeous landscapes
  • Nintendo Wii (console formerly known as Revolution)
  • WordPress tips and tricks – comments, trackbacks, and query_post
  • Stunning pixel animation – Pirate Baby’s Cabana Battle Street Fight 2006
  • Real world Tetris
  • Regulus – WordPress Theme version 2.1.2
  • Vote for me at the Webbys… please
  • Another World – re-release
  • Regulus – WordPress Theme version 2.1
  • Paint with Bob Ross – video game
  • Movie Roundup – March 06
  • WordPress widget bar – coming to a theme near you soon.
  • Zelda Fan Film Trailer
  • Casual Games can help your mental health
  • Cool Lego Aircraft Carrier
  • Web 2.0/ Star Wars
  • Splintercell for real?
  • Prototype number 1
  • I’ve been interviewed!
  • David Hasselhoff hits women?
  • Flat Screen TV on the cheap
  • Movie Roundup – February 06
  • 6 new wordpress themes from IfElse
  • Lego Video Games
  • Off with their Huds (video game huds that is)
  • Yahoo! Design Patterns and UI Library
  • I’m O.K – video game violence
  • Games are good for you
  • The Hoff and Pepsi
  • FFVII: Advent Children dated
  • Adsense
  • The making of Shadow of the Colossus
  • How do people play games?
  • Movie Roundup – January 06
  • Bubble Blitz Online
  • Nintendo DS redesign
  • Flowers for Jack
  • Cheapo Hosting
  • Be a video game designer
  • Video Gaming Love Song
  • Make your website pretty
  • Dev Diary : Design
  • 2010 – a videogaming year in review
  • Save energy with your computer
  • Prince of Persia – Two Thrones
  • Million Dollar homepage completed!
  • King Kong
  • Happy New Year

2005#

  • Movie Roundup December 05
  • EbayEd – Ebay Image Editor
  • Grow Ornament – Christmas Flash game
  • Free Icons
  • That’s me that is!
  • Regulus 2.0
  • The Ultimate Man Cave Couch
  • Acclaim offers publishing rights to their back catalogue
  • King Kong – Woahh
  • Regulus in use
  • Flash / Javascript Integration kit
  • Regulus – Now Available on wordpress.com
  • Treadmill Bike
  • My first Hookah (aka what I did in Estonia)
  • Web Professionals no more
  • Movie Roundup November 05
  • Google Analytics
  • Projects section open
  • Regulus – New WordPress Theme released
  • Cool Bathroom Fixtures
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  • A Big Ad
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  • More WordPress.com invites
  • Wax on – Wax Hoff
  • Akismet – comment spam hell
  • WordPress.com API key
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  • My new favourite search engine – Preview Seek
  • Dev Diary : Feature Set
  • Shadow of the Colossus week at 1up.com
  • Harry Potter Conspiracy Theory #3: Snape
  • Microsoft Coding 4 Fun
  • Liquid Sculpture
  • WordPress.com invites sent
  • Dev Diary : Game Design
  • David Hasselhoff and Ice-T team up for new album
  • A Game of Thrones
  • WordPress.com Invite up for grabs
  • The Million Dollar homepage
  • Bubble Blitz Review
  • Game Development Diary – Introduction
  • Tomatoes are Evil
  • What I do at Miniclip
  • WordPress Theme Toolkit
  • Web 2.0? No thanks
  • Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
  • FSMism – a new theory of Intelligent Design
  • Harry Potter Conspiracy Theory #2: Dumbledore
  • Inside the Download.com redesign
  • Where there’s smoke there’s fire?
  • Google Talk
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  • The Escapist and the Ecomnomist on Video Game Alarmism
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  • How to use and abuse the gaming press
  • Zelda Twilight Princess delayed – new screenshots
  • The Free Sound Project
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  • Flash 8 officially announced
  • Bubble Blitz release
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  • 16 Things that Really Annoy Most Web Users
  • Harry Potter Theories
  • New Game Release Soon!
  • More Google Maps
  • Google Moon…
  • A Book Baton
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  • Uk – Small Ads
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  • Flash Player 8 beta release
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  • Railway Congestion Charges… Great!
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  • New Video Games
  • News Map
  • It’s official – David Hasselhoff rocks!
  • The Design One
  • I hate haxxors
  • Why Geeks and Nerds Are Worth It…
  • 419 eater
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  • Video Games
  • Star Wars – Revenge of the Sith
  • Google Maps come to the UK
  • Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool
  • Barclays Scam Email
  • Clocky – pure Genius
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  • A few changes
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