A big new update to Battlefield 3 for Xbox 360 has just been released. The news they’re making the most of is that you can rent a server to play on via Xbox. Yes, PS3 has been offering this for a while and it is out for Xbox 360 at last. This means you can rent your own server and create your custom Battlefield 3 gaming space. OK, you could already do this by privately renting a slot on a server if you knew how, but now it’ll just be easier for those of us who don’t know. What Can
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Apparently, Brick is not only pestered by offers of champagne from aeroplane captains, and waived bar tabs from bartenders, but also suffers the agony of being disliked by other girls for being too pretty.
Keep readingI’m only publishing this to get something set up on the blog that requires ownership authorisation via publication of a randomly generated statement. Think of this as an unexpected fortune cookie, if you like: “This chopped board joins with the poke under the concluded fountain.” And there you have it. Moving on: would you like to see the naked ladies or read about food or toddlers instead?
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This is a guest post by Anthony on behalf of Janet Stones Counselling. In a confrontational move, thousands of people suffering from anxiety and depression are being moved from the therapy couch and placed in front of their own keyboards. After facing cuts in the NHS budget and high levels of stress and depression in the population, Ministers in Scotland are considering different ways to reduce the amount of scheduled appointment times. In order to reduce NHS expenditure and waiting times, patients who visit their GP with moderate symptoms may be referred to a new website. The online service will
Keep readingWell, that was painless. I got an email when Hew started moving stuff over, another when he was done, and Lo! it’s all here. My theme is still here, in its free-for-WP.org version, my sidebar and footer widgets are still basically the same, and they’ve added some plugins to replicate some of the features of WordPress.com that I was used to. Visitors probably don’t notice the minor differences on the site from yesterday to today. Slick! I’m sure I could have done it myself, but by the time I’d looked up how to do everything found and installed the right
Keep readingSo it’s all been arranged – a “Happiness Engineer” called Hew at the WordPress.com guided transfer service is going to take all of this stuff and move it over to a WordPress.org installation hosted by HostGator. That’ll happen between 02:00 UTC Wednesday and 02:00 UTC Thursday this week. [That's the wee small hours in the UK, evening in the US, and lunchtime in Australia.] When I wake up in the morning, I’ll have to wait up to a day before I can see the new site. So it may look weird at first, but I’ll get things all how I like them
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I just bought a “Guided Transfer” service from WordPress.com to move all the stuff on this site to, essentially, another site that looks roughly the same and has the same web address but is delivered to your screen from a web host that I pay, rather than from WordPress.com. If that meant nothing to you and your eyes have glazed over, feel free to wander off. There are some naked girlie photos here, or a few recipes. Anyway, what it means is that if you come back in a couple of weeks’ time, this blog may look slightly different. No
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Like I said the other day, I had this organic search traffic spike. Lots of people looking for Mike Crawley showed up, the majority of them from Google image search. About 20 hours later, I saw the news that Mike Crawley has been named as the new leader of the Liberal Party of Canada…. What this essentially means is that a whole lot of people were doing a quick spot of internet research on Mike Crawley, maybe looking for a picture of him to include with their blog post or news story, when they crashed into a couple of my
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I just had one of those mad traffic spikes: not a StumbleUpon flashmob, not a run of Facebook click-throughs, but a burst of activity that comes mainly from organic search. Look: As it turns out, I had a lot of hits from people searching for Mike Crawley. Which isn’t surprising, because he’s a superstar and because he does nudie photos. There were a couple of hours there when it was all just busy, busy, busy – for this place, at least. I’m used to pootling along at no more than a hundred or so views a day most of the time, so this
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Just a thought: Every day I submit several online forms with a “type the magic words” anti-bot security feature. Sometimes those words seem relevant to one another or to something I was doing at the time. Are they trying to tell me something? BTW, If I now say “yes,” then I’m officially a bit of a twat unless I’m suffering some sort of delusions. But I’m not, on either count, so hold your fire.
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