Month of June, 2008

Today I took part in the Shrewsbury Dragon Boat Race to help raise money for Shrewsbury Hospice. Our team made up of 17 people from our office (The Pump House), the majority representing Marches Energy Agency, I represented Information Solutions (and obviously world famous ImAFish).

Click on any picture to see a larger version on Flickr.

The boat we had to race.

The team lining up the boat. We are all dressed as superheroes (under our life jackets).

Much love to Jonnie (also representing ImAFish) for coming in at last minute to fill the team. You can see my superhero mask on my head.

Everyone was nervous that we might fall in.

Jo, Tessa, Sarah and Jeremy.

A discussion on climate change (I guess).

View the complete set on Flickr.

Much love to Laura for taking the photos.

It's been a while since I've updated Comment Luv for Drupal and I've had a number of requests for a update for Drupal 6.

I've been talking to Andy from FiddyP who's updated his version for Wordpress recently and I hope to have an updated version of Comment Luv within the coming weeks. I've not used Drupal 6 much yet so this will be a good chance to learn some of the updates, I had been waiting for the CCK and Views modules to come out of beta before starting any work on Drupal 6 (I've not used it on any production sites at work yet either).

 I know there are a fair number of sites out there using Comment Luv which is great.

In less than 7 years, Mercedes-Benz plans to ditch petroleum-powered vehicles from its lineup. Focusing on electric, fuel cell, and biofuels, the company is revving up research in alternative fuel sources and efficiency.read more | digg story

After one of my recent rants I used an image of Gordon Ramsay saying 'Done'. I received a number of comments saying how funny it was and how it would make a great Internet meme so I've put together an image generator that lets you create your own Gordon Ramsay sayings!

Once your happy with your image right click it, select save as and change the extension to .png, you can then use it anywhere on the web.

Note: If your reading this through the RSS feed or Facebook you will need to visit the post on ImAFish.

Much love for Terri Ann and her writing text to images with php tutorial which was 99% of the work DONE.

With all the hype over the new 3G iPhone as announced by Apple last week that we have a new website launching today dedicated to videos of the iPhone.

www.iphonevideos.net

The site is constantly updated with the latest videos of iPhones, iPhone tutorials, iPhone unlocking and iPhone Adverts. 

I stumbled upon this site earlier which asks 19 questions about your site in order to calculate how much its worth. Apparently ImAFish is worth $23,000 (£11,500) - any takers? You can pay me through Paypal.

The questions includes current revenue, Alexa and Google Page Rank, RSS subscribers, monthly hits and future projections.

23,930
How much money is your blog worth?

How much is your blog worth?

Often I get writers block, sometimes it last for days, othertimes weeks. When I emerge with new inspiring ideas they fall in one of three categories.

1. Something useful often techical - these sorts of posts often end up as articles like my recent 10 useful mac tips article. If I'm lucky these sorts of posts go all around the net getting me a few hundred thousand new visitors.
2. Rants - these posts not unsimilar to this one are highly sarcastic, humorous fast paced and often hard to follow. Phrases such as 'much love' are used and more recently photos of Gordan Ramsay saying 'Done' (like he does in the fword).
3. Unfinished posts - I often start writing top X lists only to write the first three or four and run out of good ideas. Either I fill it with a few lame entries or give up for another day.

I guess what I'm trying to find out is how does your writing style change depending on your mood and inspiration? In this sense is writing a blog different to say writing for a newspaper or magazine?

June 5th 2008 - Shrewsbury based world famous ImAFish celebrates its seventh birthday today. The site's had a bumper year with over 250,000 visits with one of its features hitting the front page of Digg.com.

Site founder Pete White said "It's been the best year ever for ImAFish with such a huge number of visits and increasing revenue. It is a testament to the brand that ImAFish has survived for seven years and I can imagine it will be around for seven more. Our move to Drupal at the beginning of the year and our updated design have been a great move. We have recently launched two new sites to go along with ImAFish and have high hopes for both."

Some of the highlights of the year include:

Ei42.com - A Revolution In Cash Back?

Make Hundreds of Pounds Through Online Bingo

How To Handle The Jerk Next To You On An Airplane

Getting Dugg and Surviving - 70,000+ Hits in One Week

Comment Luv for Drupal

Pete’s Egyptian Diary

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