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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I caught a cold last week and it’s just moved on to the coughy coughy stage which is killing me! I’ve got to work all through this phlegm (great word!) and try and portray a happy go lucky person who just so happens to sound like a stoned Darth Vader

No matter though because I notice I have gone sub 90k on my Alexa rank, Technorati authority is up near 300 and there have been quite a few click-thru’s on my uVme ads so, not too bad considering…

Because of my extended man-cold (an extreme version of flu that only the male of the species gets), I haven’t been up to making any decent posts, even my drafts that I usually keep for such occasions have dried up (plenty of titles, no content though). It’s a shame because I have some super ideas for posts and for the life of me I cannae be bovvered at all, luckily I don’t charge an entrance fee for this blog because I’d have to start issuing refunds!

I’ll get some quality stuff up soon like how to make a countdown button with php (see the 125×125 button at the top), create some AJAX Stumblebait, update CommentLuv to use AJAX and generally lark about with words and stuff….

now where’s the Lemsip?….

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I’ve made an update to the CommentLuv plugin so it behaves better, the speed should be better too after rearranging the different parsing routines and I’ve added a bit of code submitted by Edward De Leau of http://edward.de.leau.net/ to handle web-log.nl blogs. Thanks Edward!

The second part of the AJAX series is coming soon, I’ve been literally worked off my feet this week so I’ll have to squeeze some typing in during the evenings this week to get it finished.

I’ve added some adsense code here and there to see if it has any potential, I’ll see how they perform before deciding if I want to keep them. Lots of impressions so far but no clicks and I’ve also added a couple Tradedoubler ads. One at the top for PC World and one to the right on the main page for special offers. A few clicks but no sales yet but it’s still very early to decided if they will be worth it or not.

I’m also trialling the Google search box instead of the Wordpress one, it can search the web and this site and display the results within the FiddyP template which is pretty cool. I’ll test it for a few weeks to see how that goes too.

AntiBarbie has prepared a holiday themed short story for here and it’s great! Look out for it on the 1st of December, she’s a dark writer that one. You’ll see why when you read it.

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