Grandad May 17th, 2008
Some of you may have been wondering what that yoke is on my side bar?
This is Damien Mulley up to his tricks again.
Is there any limit to this bloke’s ideas? He is giving an award for Blog Post of the Month, every month.
I think it is a great idea, because it gives everyone an opportunity. I have nominated one or two posts [not any of my own, I hasten to add] and I hope they are in with a chance.
I got the badge from Le Craic [with permission] and I think it is a great piece of work.
Unfortunately, I have one or two problems with it.
- It is in Flash, and Flash is something I’m not fond of.
- I’m a modest bloke, and it does somehow look like I’m pimping for a nomination.
- It takes up quite a lot of space.
It’s a pity, because I really like it. It has everything, like a mini web site. A brilliant piece of work.
But I think I’ll replace it with something a bit smaller.
When I can get off my arse to do something.
Grandad April 28th, 2008
It seems like a long time ago, but the Irish Blog Awards were only last month.
AJ@Lecraic has put a great deal of effort into producing a nice little virtual book about the awards.
Kudos, AJ
Grandad April 27th, 2008
I was thinking of changing my colour scheme a little bit.
I’m just a wee bit tired of the colours that are there at the moment.
I’d go for black and blood red, but that’s a bit Goth.
Any ideas or suggestions?
Grandad April 20th, 2008
Head Rambles has moved. It hasn’t moved far, but it needed a new home.
As with all moves, a few things got broken. I smashed that nice bone china tea set I got from Auntie Aggie, and a few things got dented.
I had to whip out the Super Glue and everything seems to be now fixed.
One or two of you may have called during the move, in which case you would have seen the mess. Sorry about that.
So, I hope you like my new home.
You may find one or two other ornaments that were cracked in the move. If you do, just let me know.
I will leave the windows open to try to clear the smell of fresh paint.
Update: Had a little ‘woops’ moment [well, quite a few moments].
The floor caved in and the site broke. Fucking builders!! You can’t trust anyone these days.
Grandad April 3rd, 2008
I was talking to herself earlier.
“D’you know,” says I, “but your blog is doing very well?”
“What do you mean?”
“It’s getting a hell of a lot of traffic, all of a sudden.”
“But I haven’t written anything in ages.”
“I know,” says I, “but they are all people searching for the word ‘granny’.”
She laughed. “I expect they are all looking for a grey haired old woman called Mavis doing her knitting, and instead they find a fag smoking old cow.”
“Tell them all to fuck off,” she added.
Charming…..
Grandad April 1st, 2008
There has been a bit of hype about the release of WordPress 2.5 and it finally was released last week.
I had heard great things about it, so of course I installed it.
The first thing I found was that it was the easiest upgrade I had ever done. It didn’t even disable all my plugins. OK, I had to tweak Bad Behaviour, but that was easy.
The next thing I noticed was the very fancy new dashboard. There are loads of new facilities, even if it will take a little time to get used to.
So you want to know my impression of this new release?
It’s crap.
It is utterly useless.
It still churns out the same old rubbish onto my blog.
I was expecting great things. I was expecting to see articles that would hit the world’s headlines. Digg, here I come. StumbleUpon won’t know what hit it.
But no.
Same old shite.
