Design and such

What a nice surprise. Kitta.net was mentioned in Lars Holet's entry on 'Well-Designed Weblogs' yesterday. Its volume 2 in a series of entries on good design and lists some inspiring sites and I was happy to find Kitta.net in the mix.

I'm never really satisfied with my site, I tweak daily, but it feels good to be recognised and know that my tweaking is worth it. Thanks Lars.

Speaking of design, I have no idea where I got the link from, but this color wheel is fantastic. It informs you if a color is web-safe, web-smart or un-safe. It's one to bookmark.

I’d like to thank…

Some wanker(s) thought that it would a fantastic idea to edit out every acceptance speech during last night's Grammy's on channel 7. No, it wasn't a fantastic idea. I wanted to hear Justin Timberlake's apology for the super bowl boob incident (or 'malfunction' as he put it).

So I have no idea who thanked god, who cried and who has way too many friends and should have just thanked the whole entire world.

Bugger.

I downloaded the new Firefox today. If you haven't downloaded it yet, I urge you to do so, it's everything you need in a browser and more. Also, check out this post on the design process that went into the nifty Firefox logo.

Me: "Mmm, cheese."
My Brother: "What?"
Me: "Lets play the mmm game, I say 'Mmm (a food type)' and you reply with 'Mmm (another food type)'".
My Brother: "Ok. Mmm, money."
Me: "You can't eat money."
My Brother: "Yeah you can."
Me: "Alright, eat some money then."
My Brother: "Nah, I'm not that hungry."

Muffiny Goodness

I picked up some blueberries while I was grocery shopping yesterday and decided to make some blueberry muffins today with them. I just kind of threw together some ingredients (hoping for the best) and made my own recipe on the spot and I thought I'd share the recipe with you all because they turned out really yummy.

• 1-1/4 cups of self-rasing flour sifted
• 1/2 cup of brown sugar
• 1/4 cup of butter melted and cooled (I used a lactose free brand)
• 1 egg
• 1/3 cup of milk (I used a lactose free milk)
• 100g of blue berries
• 3 tablespoons of caster sugar
• A few drops of vanilla essence

1. Preheat oven to 200 degrees C and grease a muffin large pan (it makes about 12 muffins). Combine flour and caster/brown sugar in a mixing bowl.
2. Using a fork, whisk butter, egg, milk and vanilla essence together in a jug. Add it and the blueberries to the flour/sugar mix and fold together until just combined.
3. Spoon into the muffin pan and bake in the oven for about 15 minutes or until a fork inserted into one of the muffins comes out clean. Let them cool for a minute or two and sprinkle some icing sugar over them. Enjoy.

WordPress 1.0.1

I updated to the latest version of WordPress today. Normally this would be easy, because WordPress isn't hard to upgrade, but I have a cold. So the simplest things turn out to be the hardest things. It took me over 1 hour to figure out the database was upgraded and the error messages were normal and not to be concerned about. Grrr. It would have taken me only 5 minutes if my brain wasn't in ultra slow mode.

I should have spent today in bed, watching the 'Labyrinth', 'Dark Crystal' and 'The Luscious Grassy Place Movie' - I mean, 'Return To Oz' - which I scored for $10 each over the weekend.

Anyways, there are still a few things that need tinkering with, such as:

• Re-install the mobile hack
• Re-install the since last visit hack
• Install comment blacklist hack
• Re-do the smiley codes
• Install the grin hack
• Re-code the content (which I've been meaning to do for ages)
• Fix the CSS shadow effect around images
• Find out if there a stats hack for this version
• Check if it all validates

Fun times.

Spanking of the monkey

This is for the googlers...

• I have no idea how to get on The Oprah Show, I just write smart ass blog entries about oprah show dreams.
• That ‘bat the penguin’ (or spank the pingu) game you are all searching for is here thanks to Mark.
• Spanking of the little red monkey is not advised, but you can spank another monkey here or here.

There was a freelance reporter that emailed me today who was writing an article for The Courier Mail (either in Brisbane or Melbourne, I'm not too sure) and I accidentally deleted the email while deleting some other emails containing mydoom in mail washer. Oops. So if you are that reporter, please email me back.