Alcoholic Drinks that Help Lessen your Hangover

Posted about 2 years ago on: 04/04/2007 - 4 comments
Tagged in: hangover, blog, booze.

Most information on hangover prevention talks about "drinking less," or "drinking water in-between drinks," or other "random advice" that's never going to happen. Realistically, hangovers are inevitable; it's just a matter of how much it hurts. If you aren't willing to take hangover prevention advice, you might as well consume drinks that help lessen hangovers.

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Planet Killers

Posted about 2 years ago on: 26/03/2007 - 1 comment
Tagged in: greenpeace, renegade, advert, chelsea tractor.

Link to youtube movie

I really REALLY am start to hate referrer spam

Posted about 2 years ago on: 26/03/2007 - No comments
Tagged in: spam, spammers, blog, rant, annoyed.

You know I'm getting sick of referrer spam in my logs. It makes trying to garner some basic web stats almost impossible. The latest trick is not just one URL being injected in to the referrer header but about a ga-billion (new numbers yay!). Of course the frequency is annoying. Take just now, I'm eating my dinner at work looking through my stats and I click the top referrer in my logs to see WTF it is because it has a sort of interesting to the everyday person type name and I'm AT WORK. Needless to say it isn't SFW! @$#! Stupid STUPID spammers.

I think spam is getting to the point where people are going to have to make connected networks in order to block out the spammers. I mean e-mail is almost all but dead in reality (and I for one will speculate right now that it will be superseded as the main contact/business tool within the next 5/10 years - you read it here first!) because for every 1 valid e-mail you get, you also get 10 spams. I mean I don't need viagra and I sure as shit do NOT need to be opening up a website while at work that has content that is not work friendly with no warning, you know... tossers. Ooo I could crush a spammer!

Repeat after me: Spammers must die!

/end rant.

Repeat after me

Posted about 2 years ago on: 20/03/2007 - 9 comments
Tagged in: free, blog.

How about some free hosting and something tribal

Posted about 3 years ago on: 05/03/2007 - 15 comments
Tagged in: hosting, free, woo, blog, web, tribe, web-tribe.

First five people to comment here with a good reason why I should give them free* blog and web hosting for a limited period of time can have it. If you like the service you can then pay a small fee.

I'll decide what's good or not.

*I want a link back somewhere visible that shows on all your pages.

Yes, this has been a helpful public broadcast.

Something Else

I'm also about to launch something new, well new for me. I'm sure I'll get slated to death for "copying" the digg concept but hey, they stole it too. Now remember a time, oOoo back in 2002 when I had karma (+/-) added to every post, you know exactly like digg (up/down); yeah doesn't seem so new now eh? Well I'm taking that and just making a website based around that theory, except everyone can submit to it. I'm not asking people to write for the site more like just submitting either stuff they have written or content elsewhere that they found interesting. Could be anything (bar the usual, no adult, racism or whatever unless it's to illustrate a VALID point).

However, without revealing the name, oh whatever... the url will be web-tribe.com and basically I am thinking of creating two or more groups, or "tribes" on there that can submit stuff. When you first join you'll be given a choice of which to join. You will then submit for that "tribe", as a further extension, people can band together to form "other" tribes that if enough of you ask a new one will be created. Everything else will be left to the social rules that I expect to arise out of it (read: got no idea!).

At the end of the day it's a user-driven website but with a tribal twist to make it more interesting. Ideas for names of the tribes, good/bad, red/blue... I'm looking at win/fail as names out of amusement but anything would be helpful. I guess as, or should I say IF the site evolves we'll have things like tribal elders (time spent and quality submissions) so the "look at me factor" will be part of it (why bother unless eh?).

Unlike digg I'll not be removing entries, being bought by companies to spirit submissions about them up to the main page (you can however make me an offer here nudge nudge).

Why do this?

Well I think digg is, frankly, a bag of pants. Enough said.