Domain Name Humour :)

I spotted this blog on Top Posts from around WordPress.com with a list of amusing concatenated domains names (look closely). Heehee, made me chuckle.

http://gavilan1010.wordpress.com/2006/11/06/10-wrost-domain-names/

Aceeeeeed!

I was tinkering with the text-to-path & inset functions in Inkscape and created the following smiley and thought I would share it under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 license. Derivative works are welcomed & encouraged.

Disclaimer – Any similarity or resembalance to characters past, present or future is purely coincidental

Woot! Blog Stats Reach 1K+

Yesterday the stats of my blog show it has reached the 1000+ mark (if only I had a £1.00 GBP for each visit), and within just over 30 days of starting it. I gotta admit I’m surprised that it has had as many visits.

So far the most popular post is the “Gnome-Screenshot & Beryl Screenshot Plugin” which I posted purely on a whim. A search on Google for the term “beryl screenshot” puts my post at numero uno (I guess it’s all down hill from now on).

I’m pleased that people have found it useful. If it has, please feel free to leave a comment and thanks for visiting

Chavs, Halloween & Bonfire Night

Yesterday evening (Halloween), I spotted a group of 15 youths in their mid teens parading down the street I live. As it’s close to Guy Fawkes/Bonfire Night (Remember, remember the 5th of November, gunpowder, treason & plot) these youths found it amusing and entertaining to throw banger fireworks at peoples property and even at passing motorists, along with the usual shouting and general loutish behavour that ensues.

Eventually they got closer and as sods law would have it, they decided to stop and congregate right outside of my property, and proceeded to bang on my windows. They even caused damage to an outside exhaust vent by shoving a live firework in it! With this I immediately contacted the police in a hope they would attend and put a stop to it, maybe even caution or arrest them.

During my call to the police I was asked the usual questions, my name, address, date of birth, but then I was asked my employment status. What the hell has my employment status got to do with it!? Did the police arrive? No! All I got was just a statistical crime number 601.

I have a myriad of words I could use to describe these youths, all derogatory such as; plebs, louts, plonkers… and some which are far harsher and expletive – therefore unmentionable here. The one word that I can use to describe them is “Chavs” and YES, some of them was wearing tracksuits, burberry & bling which this stereotypical caricature is so apt.

Boo!

I decided over the weekend to start blogging here on WP instead of on Blogger. A couple of reasons prompted me to make this transfer. First WP is a Open Source project and was suggested to me as an alternative. The main reason for moving was so I could start to add categories to my blog, so that certain categories could be aggregated into a “Team Blog” on www.hullfloss.org.uk
I was impressed to see there is a facility to import from other blogs into WP. As it turns out this didn’t work due to my Blogger account being the beta version. A search on the support forum produced a couple of suggestions to resolve this, from “cut & paste” or alternatively a rather convoluted method. A quick feedback about this resulted in the following reply;

Hi,
Our blogger beta installer is not yet completed and full tested yet. You
could always start a blog here and import though at a later date?
My apologies though.

Podz

I think I shall wait for the built in importer to be resolved, before attempting other exotic importing methods.