Archive for March, 2006

Dragonflys and Demons

So, what’s the point of this post? I’m glad you asked, as today’s
rc heli events have really made me stop and think a little..
I can now do this stuff on a shoe-string budget and yet still be able to re-kindle some of that youthful joy we all lose as the years progress. The VNR3D […]

Venom AirCorps VNR3D micro heli

Okay,
.. for those who don’t know yet, I’ve gained a growing interest in Radio Controlled micro helicopters. The above is the result of today’s visit to the local hobby store. This little hot-rod is a fully 6 channel, fully aerobatic, proportional control micro heli.
In my youth, such a nimble, electric powered model of this type […]

Finding the right mix

I’ve found myself recently searching, almost yearning, for a fresh, clean wordpress theme that scales well, contains the right mix of content yet doesn’t overpower the reader.

Hemingway has been great, I’ll not deny that. I felt the call of a darker layout and it has served me well, but as with anything it’s time for […]

Wordpress 2.02 release

Matt has just released the latest security focused update to Wordpress.

Smarter Advertising

text-link-ads

After several months of watching Google’s Adsense revenue flows slow to a trickle, it became apparent that the once darling of online advertising, just doesn’t cut the mustard for smaller blog sites, like is.

So, the search was on for an online advertising agency that actually had a better method of renumerating it’s advertisers and rewarding those who choose to advertise through them with better profits.

I did not want massive graphical depictions of vallium, or porn, nor did I want the pathetic returns of the usual ‘pay-per-click’ advertising that is all the rage of today’s fashionable advertising merchants. You would think those two ideals would be at odds, right?

Quake 3 running on 24 monitors - resolution of 10240×3072
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Naked shopping

It’s official.. shopping naked rocks. Image of today’s deliveries, courtesy of my Nokia N70 camera phone.
You know the ’shopping in underwear’ is a common phrase when one’s local iSupermarket
bananablue actually uses the concept as a slogan.
While this may not seem like anything special, (dependant on where it is you’re reading this) — […]

NASA - Steve Robinson: First Podcaster From Space
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78th Annual Academy Awards/Oscars Torrent
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Binary Podcasting

Bye bye links.php

Looks like in the frenzy to move lots of shit out of 2.0 legacy files, someone forgot to do a sanity check on wp-settings.php.