Monday 27 November 2006

Wordpress advent-ures

Wordpress is one of those blogging tools that people go on about being the dog's bollocks. I like Blogger: it's easy, customisable, generally very reliable. The new Blogger Beta is even snazzier in that you can sign in to your blog from the page itself and from here you can change the template and stuff without having to do html things. It looks good and one of my blogs has already switched over to Blogger in beta.

However, not being one to dismiss things without trying them, I've taken advantage of the resources offered by Taz and Pig and I've set up a blog over on their server - FOC, they're so benevolent for a pair of vicious little queers. They use Wordpress for their blog utility and this has a snazzy tool whereby you can import another blog in its entirety. So that's what I did, I imported all of Cakesniffers over to "Click next when ready". And it fucked up my formatting back here in Blogger.

Cunting shite.

But I'm impressed that I can do this and have the option to perhaps switch over to the Taz and Pig site... perhaps, maybe, one day - no more popups if I get myself a new Url.

Click next when ready? Well, when I was setting up the T&P blog I clicked next before I was ready and the blog was initially called "Sni".


Advent calendars
Friday is 1st of December and this equals day number one for those eager to get stuck in to their Advent calendars in the countdown to Christmas. Most advent calendars have little doorways that open on to a picture that is obscured for a nanosecond by a small chocolate that rapidly finds its way into the mouth of a small child or excited Trump.

But I've been thinking about Advent calendars; it'd be brilliant if they could do savoury snack ones where each door reveals a speciality salami, cheese, salty snack or pickle. That would be an advent calendar worth having!


Radioactive like sushi
What about the UK being witness to a spy drama straight out of the Cold War? How fantastic is it that assassins would go to the trouble of killing somebody with polonium-spiked raw fish rather than just putting a bullet in the back of their head? It's so exciting!

Of course, by fantastic, I mean out of the ordinary and totally mindblowing, rather than really good. This is the sort of thing we want the security services investigating, not your pathetically unoriginal islamic so-called plots to just blow up buses, planes and trains - this is real espionage. Pol-fucking-onium! Brilliant! Bring it on!

Essentially though, the Russians can get away with anything because they supply all our gas and oil - fall out with them and we're much more fucked than when we faced the threat of nuclear war.

10 comments:

Anonymous said...

Yay.... I'm first.

My She Monster has eaten her whole advent calendar already (cardboard and all). Greedy little devil.

I didn't have to go to work today because of snow. YAY.

Anonymous said...

Bitch. She never comments unless it's to gloat.

Anonymous said...

They eat alot of sushi in Canada don't they...and funny how you mention radioactive fall out in your comment in April's snow pic?

Anyhow..How do you tell the time in Russia?

If you get a knock on the door you know its 3am in the norning.

Anonymous said...

As much as I hate blogger some days, I really don't like Wordpress. It sucks. Still scared though to make the big switch to Beta though.

I love advent calendars but the chocolate in them is shit. This year my niece and nephew have decided to make their own - we took a trip to the bulk section of the grocery store the other day and picked out all the best candies and chocolates.

Anonymous said...

Seriously, try Blogger in Beta if you can, it's top notch.

We have fairly decent advent calendars over here - proper chocolate and everything. Unless of course you're really cheap and buy some scratty thing off the market.

Anonymous said...

Yeay isn't it great that a spy gets poisened with a dose of "neverheardofitandislargelyunobtainium 210"

And it has brought to our attention that the Ruskies have recently passed a law saying it's OK for them to kill people they don't like in other countries.

Hang about, how did I get here?

Anonymous said...

I dunno. Tickers doesn't comment in months and then three come along at once.

Anonymous said...

I've been unsure about whether to change over to beta. I will now.

Anonymous said...

Clearly Alexander Litvinenko should have filled up on advent calendar chocolate - he'd have been fine.

Anonymous said...

Well, that's what you get when you criticise your government. Of course, all the criticism of the UK government that you'll find here is done purely in gest, I think they're really very good. The cunts.

Perhaps if Alexander had spent more time doing Christmas shopping online instead of messing about in secret meetings, he wouldn't have ended up like a real life ready brek advert.

Bad taste I know, and the situation is really rather serious and very nasty for him. But killing somebody with radioactive stuff? It's brilliant!