I have launched the site with this seasons Formula 1 in mind. So I have set up two leagues so far. F1 drivers championship and the F1 constructors championship. This means you can follow a combination of drivers and teams/constructors.
Soon there will be more motorsports added. Feel free to suggest other motorsports you’d like to see in the feedback forum.
Please check it out and let me know what you think.
After the amazing success of the h1debate Twitter hashtag poll. I decided to create another one for a slightly specialised topic. Do you love or hate marmite? Available at lovehatemarmite.com Obviously this is just available in the UK and South Africa.
So how does it work? Well if you have a Twitter account, simply tweet #lovemarmite or #hatemarmite along with your reason to vote! For more on Marmite check out the official site at marmite.co.uk.
There may well be more polls to come soon. Don’t forget to check out the h1debate.com
Paul Randall had some discussions on Twitter last week about where on a page you should use an h1 tag. There are 2 possible options. Either as the sites name for instance <h1>Acme labs</h1> or as the main heading <h1>About page</h1>.
This lead to Paul getting into a bigger discussion and finally approaching me (after our awesome collaboration on the design of FootyTweets) to help develop a site to integrate the Twitter discussion.
The site idea came at about 6:30pm yesterday (2nd Feb 2009) and was finished at 10:30pm ish the same day.
H1debate.com integrated Twitter hashtags and the Twitter Search API to create a voting system so there can finally be an outcome and settly once and for all the correct use of the <h1>.
As people who follow me on Twitter will know, I cracked my iPhone’s about 3 days before Christmas. I tried to replace the screen on my old iPhone and consequently broke the ariel meaning it immediately became an iPod touch! But this time I made sure I paid for insurance. So I took the my broken iPhone 3G to the Carphone Warehouse and they said it would be atleast 2 weeks to repair. I did point out that I think after the extortionate premium I pay that I should get a replacement. Instead they gave me a shitty Nokia that looked like it has a screen resolution of 100px x 100px! I was not impressed.
I got back to work with this shitty phone and immediate looked around for my old Windows Mobile phone that was locked to Orange and therefore spent the next hour finding out how to SIM unlock it. I succeded but during the process lost my 3G coverage. I then had to get it to sync with my contacts on my machine using Microsofts ActiveSync. I had to spend 40mins importing my Windows Contacts into Outlook (whihc I don’t use) just to get ActiveSync to see them! I was pretty much fuming at this point.
I then had to find a Twitter client for it. I ended up with Twobile. A nice little app that does everything you need, except it looks like it was a microsoft app i.e. broing to look at and took atleast 3 clicks to get to what I wanted.
Move on 3 weeks, I was walking down the high street and suddenly got a pain in my chest, it ended up being a Spontaneous Pneumothorax which at the time of writing I still have! But this meant for the next week I could not walk far without being in agony from my chest. So I couldn’t get to the shop to get my iPhone back.
Back to today (15th of January), I collected my iPhone and paid the £29.99 premium that clearly said 17.5 VAT (which is obviously wrong), I couldn’t be assed to argue over it. The guy then announced that it was a replacement handset, I could have told him they would do that 4 weeks ago! Instead I had to go back to the office and wait 5 hours till I could get home and sync the dam thing and get everything back to how it was.
Anyway I took a pic of what I got back:
A nice little box
A new (probably refurbished) iPhone
An official Apple paperclip
Anyway that is my story, my phone is still syncing (30mins so far). My recommendation: Do not drop your iPhone!
Hello! Welcome to 2009! I know we are already a few weeks in to the year but I have yet to say anything on my blog! I have been working on a few projects. I will be announcing them over the next few days and weeks.
As you can tell I have a new theme. The last theme was starting to look a bit cluttered so I opted for a new theme with a space to put some free text. That way I can keep everyone up to date with my latest prjects without directing them to a particular page
Anyway how was your new year celebrations? Mine was quite quiet really, just went to my girlfriends parents house for lots of drinks and food.
This is just a quick note to let you all know that I was a guest on this weeks episode of Tuck In To Tech. If you haven’t seen the new website I designed then you need to check that out too! Tuckintotech.com. In this weeks show Alistair and I talk about the latest news stories in the tech world from this week. I also do a bit of Microsoft bashing!
I have announced on Twitter that I have stopped Magpie from sending sponsored advertising into my Twitter feed. Basically it comes down to the fact that a lot of people expressed the fact they did not like advertising going into the Twitter and would ruin it’s image as a networking tool.
I would like to explain why I signed up for the service. Apart from writing a review for this very blog, I have been looking for ways to make a little bit of money on the side of my full time job, none of my web apps make money as they are just there for other users’ benefit. Like TwitterLeage, which was created to enhance the fun and competitive nature of follower counts. So this seemed a nice (not too intrusive way) of making a few pence.
But I didn’t see the line between making a bit of money on the side and clogging up my feed with advertising that may well have been suited to people following me.
So there you go. No hard feelings to anyone and thank you to the users who pointed out what I was doing.
This is the fastest blog I have ever created. Using my great managed VPS at Everycity I set up the blog and edited the theme inside 3 hours including 2 stories to launch with!
The blog is called Tweeter Stuff and is all about Twitter. This can be Twitter applications, news and intersting info about the awesome micro-blogging service.
I started listening to this weeks episode of Tuck In To Tech (awesome new site coming soon!) called “Blister Packaging…why? Just why?” [download]. Anyway thats slightly by the topic. So the co-host, James announced that he had an “angry” to get off his chest. I was intrigued! But I was shocked to hear that he was blaming Alistair for not producing a good enough show and losing 12 listeners :). One point to remember is that I helped Alistair by co-hosting the episode from 2 weeks ago. So really I can twist it to say that 12 listeners just like me!
Anyway I am not trying to pass blame :p. So instead I am asking you, the readers, where have the 12 listeners gone? Are you one of them? If so please leave a comment.
On a separate not please submit your answer to the poll below.
I had the great pleasure of going with my dad to Wembley stadium. There was some confusion about if we could get our tickets! My dads friend bought them from TicketMaster, they failed to deliver the tickets to her address and that meant we needed her and her ID to collect the tickets at the stadium! How ridiculous! Anyway she was stuck at gatwick airport after getting back from holiday so we didn’t have her or her ID when collecting the tickets, just her credit card. This is not fraud by the way! We know her and she bought the tickets and my dad paid her back!
Anyway we got to the ticket office and managed to get the tickets after a bit of convincing. So then it was into the statium! The atmosphere was amazing, we all got three flags.
The Sterophonics started us off with their new single and then my favourite track of theirs “Dakota”. Then Neyo sang the american national anthem so well, Joss Stone sang ours, not easy to sing along to with all her high pitch melody!
Then the game started. Thats all your getting about the game!
At half time we had a stripped down New Orleans Mardi-Gras. I have a few photos attached.
The whole evening was amazing and I would do it again when it comes back next year. The actually game was more entertaining with last yeat. The New Orleans Saints have a new fan!
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