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Gareth — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 21:43:10 +0000

You may remember that earlier in the year I mentioned CreativePhotogenic. What I said before was all true; now I have more to say.

Not too shabby eh? There’s more but I don’t want to bore you. What’s that? You’re not bored? Righty o!

Ooh, you can see the Big Hungry Giant in the background of this one. How cute! The baby, I meant the baby!

Fun with helium balloons

Gareth — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 02:21:40 +0000

In the nineties, there were all sorts of warnings associated with breathing Helium gas. It’s pretty common stuff so despite the risk of blue lips or passing out everyone has had a go at the squeaky voice gas. Everyone that is apart from Joe Pasquale, who from birth never needed any. In short anyone who is anyone at all has given in and had a go at some point. For most of us it’s before we even make it to being teenagers. For some, well, it lasts a lot longer.

Click here to view the embedded video.

To my mind, that’s pretty funny. When she finds out this is on-line she may not agree; enjoy it while it lasts.

Wondrous WordPress

Gareth — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:10:10 +0000

Some friends of ours have recently joined the Wordress crew. I’m not sure that they’ll thank me for it but you can see what they like over here.

Installing WordPress for them, yes they’re noobs, helped me realise just how powerful and user friendly the software is. With minimal effort you can produce a clean and professional looking website to showcase your thoughts. Ultimately content is king, but well presented and easy to read content is always better than content which isn’t. With this in mind I thought I could post my first ever list as an essential part of a blog entry.

1 – WordPress is free.

Yep, it’s first and foremost! Contrary to that most popular advice many things in life are free. At many retail outlets for instance you can buy one product and get another free. Why today at my local food store you can buy one bottle of Coke and get another free. Even Burger King have a buy one get one free offer. They don’t like it if you ask for 50% off one though. And they really don’t like it if you try to take the free burger or the free coke and leave them with the one you have to pay for. In these instances, buy one get one free is a clever man’s 50% off. The retailer gets the full price of one product where if they had offered you 50% off the price they would probably have taken half the money as most people would only buy one. I.E. the one they actually needed/wanted.

The other poor, miserable, and reprobate type of free is best evinced by considering free gifts. Almost invariably the result of hidden cost or items of minimal worth. Take a look at any of the free templates from Template Monster. You’ll see what I mean pretty quickly.

WordPress isn’t just free. It’s brilliant and free. That’s outright remarkable. The only question you should have now, as you wander away from this post, is whether a legitimate list can really only have one item in it?

Word of the day: Ocelot
-noun
1 – A spotted leopardlike cat ranging from Texas through South America