The slightly more eagle-eyed amongst you (and by jimminy, you’d have to have bionic as opposed to eagle eyes) might notice a few differences. Then again, some of you might not notice a damn thing. I tried playing around with one or two templates but couldn’t get them to work nicely in internet explorer and [...]
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BASTARD….. I thought WordPress 2.1 was supposed to have a bloody autosave feature? My luck. Anyway, as I was saying, before I rudely interrupted myself by accidently clicking on the back button: apologies to anybody getting some weird posts in their feed over the weekend. I upgraded to the newest version of WordPress on Saturday [...]
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Tinbasher Mobile
Oh I crack myself up, I really do. With the aid of this awfully easy plugin to implement, you can now point your mobile/cell/psp/bacon butty browser to The Tinbasher and get a passable reworked version of it on your phone. In other words, it doesn’t take an eon to load. Plus, when it does load [...]
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Rocking Around the (Stainless Steel) Christmas Tree
There I was in a state of pre-Christmas wind-down (I have no idea what excuse I have for the rest of the year) and I thought I’d do something festive in a sheet metal stylee. It didn’t take me long to punch the words ‘stanless steel christmas‘ into Google and it didn’t take too long [...]
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Do They Know It’s Christmas?
Being a foreigner in a strange land affords you occasional whimsy as you hanker after the grey, grey pavements of Pendle. It’s essential not to overplay your hand when it comes to homesickness as it can get quite tiresome, but used sparingly you can summon all manner of favours from all and sundry. Alternatively, you [...]
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Retail Charity, Retail Therapy and Retail Retards
Yes, it’s coming round that time of year again. And, with all the hoopla surrounding ‘Cyber Monday’ over this side of the pond, it might be wise to try and point you in the right direction concerning the spirit of Christmas as opposed to just pointing you in the right direction after imbibing too many [...]
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