Designing a good logo is a tough task. It’s no where near as simple as it sounds. It’s fair to say I’ve had a bit of a fixation with graphic design recently, and I’ve posted about logos before (anyone remember the Phallic Logo Awards?). This latest crop of logos don’t quite fit into the phallic category, but they could be … Read More
Well here’s some sloppy reporting from the Sydney Morning Herald (SMH), with the SMH website reporting that Meg White, “drummer” of the White Stripes, was the ‘star’ of the latest celebrity sex video doing the rounds. As of writing this, the SMH “Meg White sex video claim” story is the second most viewed story on the SMH website. The story was first … Read More
My ears are still ringing from last nights Silverchair/Powderfinger double bill, Across the Great Divide show at Rod Laver Arena. From where I was, the stadium appeared to be at near capacity. Support act for the night was Expatriate. They put on an entertaining half hour or so of music, but I have to say, playing the support slot must … Read More
As you may have read, a few days ago I found that I was having a few issues with bandwidth theft with people hotlinking to images on my automotive blog without permission. I decided I’d have some fun for a couple of days by replacing the hotlinked images with some non-auto related, border line inappropriate, images. Yesterday I decided I’d had enough fun and … Read More
Well it’s been over 24 hours since I identified the ‘bandwidth theft‘ occurring on one of my other sites. It was the first time I’d found this happening, so I thought I’d conduct an experiment, firstly, to see what sort of images I could display on the offending site, and secondly, to see how long it would go on for … Read More
Looking at my Google analytics statistics, it seems that anything involving celebrities is big business, organic traffic wise. Half the people that visit swollenpickles.com, do so to look at a couple Paris Hilton memes (PG13 rated) I posted some time ago. So in the interests of giving the public what they so clearly want, here is some click bait – … Read More
For webmasters interested in building back links to their sites, this just might be my most useful post ever. The list below is of forums (with a page rank of 3 and above) that currently allow you to post signature links that “dofollow”. I’d searched around for a while but haven’t found a decent sized list, so I thought I’d … Read More
Like Muse the night before, this was my first time seeing Tool play live in the flesh. Having listened to their albums for years, and hearing about their live show second hand, my expectations were fairly high. I’d heard the last time they played Melbourne, for the Lateralus tour, they were on stage for close to 3 hours with a … Read More
Last night I saw Muse live for the first time. I’ve got both of their live DVD’s which are cool, but after seeing them play live last night, I have to say, they don’t do them justice. The support act, Ground Components, weren’t my cup of tea really. The lead singer got on my nerves, carrying on like a kid … Read More
NBA 2K7 is probably the most addictive Xbox games I’ve played in a long while. Compared to NBA Live 2007, NBA 2K7 is worlds apart in terms of realism and feel. Controls take a bit to get used to and don’t have the ‘arcade’ style feel of NBA Live 2007. I like to start with a rubbish team and then … Read More
