Well, I finally got the chance to convert my gaudy old skin over to the new version of the blogs. Don't know about you lot, but I happen to like my tacky little pad ...... and I'm the one who codes the skin, so you're kind of stuck without an opinion .... of course, if you feel strongly about my tacky little pad then feel free to leave a comment with your views .... I might even pay attention.

If you're using Interdebt Exploiter then things might look groovy for a while until I get round to writing in all the crap needed so that IE can understand the terms XHTML and CSS. Until then you have three choices, 1/get a better browser, 2/ put up with it, or 3/ leave .... of course, if things are groovy enough, then you won't be able to see this post.

Other stuff that's happened recently, not that y'all care, it's just because the new version has a word count for posts, so I want to see if I can reach 500 words ....... those of you that know me are probably thinking "can you say that little?" .... anyway, other stuff....

I'm going to be starting a site with [stk], it's going to be kind of a merger of my dev blog and his fluffy article style on his blog ..... damn, that's gonna confuse the natives.... with a bit of luck, and a hell of a lot of effort, we intend to make the new website a source for plugins, skins and tutorials for [b2evo] as well as articles on other stuff such as XHTML and CSS, and other geeky acronyms.

Other geeky news ..... yeah, yeah, I know, you're not interested, it's just for the word count .... I'm sure there'll be more blonde news further down ;) .... anyway, other geeky news ....

I've been working on recoding a search engine called [elsie] for the last few months, she's not open to the public yet so no link I'm afraid, and she's finally starting to look like she can answer questions ....... which is a hell of an improvement on the Mighty V who just goes "urm" and then wanders of to some blonde place in her head ....... anyway, back to Elsie ...

I'm hoping that Elsie is going to be a very different experience from your normal search engine, whilst retaining all the functionality that you expect from one ....... I'll soon know, we're expecting just short of half a million visitors a month within a few months of going live ...... damn, that's gonna test my code !!! ... I'm sure she'll stay on her feet *crosses fingers ...... buys lucky rabbits foot for extra insurance*

Blonde news ...... don't get excited, I haven't actually got any, it just means more words .... urm .... sheesh ..... urm ...... I wonder if "......." counts as a word? ..... urm ... I'm still not top for pond pumps in google (uk), no suprise there then, but I have had 1,332 unique visitors to my and still not a single request for a link a day email .... it's a damn shame the spammers don't give a toss about stats that prove their worth.

Talking of my spam trap, I must appologise to those of you out there who link to it. The image died for a couple of days when I was testing the new blog software because I forgot to copy the image across. Obviously it's now back and I'll remember in the future.

Anyway, I'm pretty sure I've hit my 5,00 word target, so I'll stop boring you now

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