After about 48 hours of trialling ecommerce systems I think I’ve finally found the one I can hack into enough to achieve what I want. I’m making the mother of all baby stores and it’ll look amazing. More on that soon. Slideshow from The Guardian: “Peter Walker talks to North … Continue reading →

I’ve finally finished my South African News aggregator website. It’s a website that collates news items from various news sources from South Africa and puts them on one page. You click through to the actual news story website if you want to read more than just the short excerpt. Why … Continue reading →

No, this isn’t a post about Allo Allo, just a collection of some rants I’ve seen on the net recently. We all love a good moan and here are some of the latest. Warren Ellis took a well deserved shot at the inane celebrations of St Patrick’s Day by people … Continue reading →

No, I didn’t go to see Fat Boy Slim yesterday. There’s some good pictures at The Argus though. Including this famous Brighton face I haven’t seen in ages: The webstats for KingOfMyCastle during December really skyrocketed. This site had over 80,000 hits and nearly 6,000 unique visitors. The BBC’s John … Continue reading →

Had this in my mind for the last few days what with all the mid-term elections in The States. 15 minutes in Photoshop later:

Ha! Check this advert that was running on US television earlier this year. This was created by the CEI, the Competative Enterprise Institute, which, funnily enough, is sponsored by Exxon.

It’s so nice to see the US winning the trust of the Iraqi people. “Sean Smith, the Guardian’s award-winning war photographer, spent nearly six weeks with the 101st Division of the US army in Iraq. Watch his haunting observational film that explodes the myth around the claims that the Iraqis … Continue reading →

Here’s a couple of games I’ve been playing this week: First we have Line Rider. Just draw a simple line on the screen, press play and watch a man toboggan down the slope. You can redraw the line in more complicated waves as seen on YouTube. Secondly we have Picto. … Continue reading →