Back in the UK July 15, 2008

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And where’s the flag, where’s our proud, wonderful British flag? Where is the patriotism? I arrive at Gatwick airport, like all airports, it’s not a ‘nice’ place, but unlike the American airports, there’s no flag, there’s no patriotic symbols, there is absolutely nothing telling me I’m actually back in England.

Is Britain not proud of its own heritage? No. That sucks.

Viacom should just piss off July 4, 2008

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Leave Google/Youtube alone Viacom, you can’t defeat the pirates! Youtube removes the videos, the users simply re-upload, you cannot win. Even worse is the fact some moronic court judge decided to force Youtube to hand over all user data to Viacom, so Viacom can personally sue every.single.user who’s watched any of their thousands of copyrighted clips. This will mean uproar in the pirate community.

The fact of the matter is, people on Youtube aren’t really pirates, Bittorrent users are, Limewire users are. Is Viacom going to succeed against them? No. Will they succeed against Youtube users? No. The entire media community needs to stop fighting the masses and flow with them, explore the advantages of mass user viewing.

Viacom = fail.

Neglected but loved June 14, 2008

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That’s what this blog is.

What to remember when making a WP theme April 29, 2008

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I’ve created many many WordPress themes during my times on the internet. I create them because I have old unused templates, and sometimes specifically to gain popularity (like everyone else I claim it’s “for the community” though). However, I always miss something. In particular, there are three things I missed on this blog. Anyway, here’s a list I threw together:

  1. Archives pages & category pages. It’s just too easy to create an index.php to fit all of these, but customized pages make a theme more developed and interesting, experimenting with layout on each page always helps too - this is one of the things I missed here, and still haven’t finished (working on it)
  2. Comments. So easy to forget or neglect. I completely forgot to add them here, linked to the comments, but with no way to add a comment ><. It’s one of the things which most themers will leave till last, and possibly forget. And not only should you include them, they have to be nicely styled too (mine aren’t - yet)
  3. Feed link. As you can see in my navigation, the feed ling is simply text. This is because I forgot to add it until today, oops! The benefits of having a feed are numerous, and not allowing visitors to view your feed is simply stupid. Personally, I don’t use feeds, and I’m sure quite a few people don’t, but that link is oh-so important. A real image link shall be arriving here soon.
  4. Archives themselves. Every blog needs an actual archives page, again, something I forgot to add here. In a rush to finish, I didn’t bother, and this lazy attitude has meant I still haven’t bothered. Much like the feed link, an archives page is taken for granted, and it’s a requirement.

I hope the list is helpful, and I’m sorry about the lack of updates, I fried my Windows machine and I’m stuck on a laptop, and all my precious internet time is taken planning a new dos rig.

p.s: Pointless Ramblings now works in IE7 and Firefox, for all those who care…