Category Archives: Mr Happy Blog

Equatorlive upgraded to Wordpress Mu 1.5.1

After a bit of delaying - having the responsibility for upgrading and not killing all the blogs here at equatorlive.com was huuuggggeee. thought it was best to give shout outs to everyone online who helped with this:

ficial.wordpress.com - for giving me the basic outline of what to do
WordPress Mu Upgrade tag thread - whole host [...]

Playboy - hottest web bloggers (not in the UK) :(

Playboy have decided to start requesting online votes to decide which female blogger to invite to pose for them. Which is nice. I’ve just seen some of the pics and yep the girls are cute. I’ve decided to vote for Brigitte Dale, though it was a real hard decision with Natali Del Conte on the [...]

Chrysler (Spoof) Advert

Cheers to what would jack do for what follows.

Reddit goes open source

Just heard from Blog Herald that Reddit is now available as open source software. This is cool, I use pligg for digg style websites when I need to develop them but will be giving the reddit platform a wee go now that I have choice.
The best thing about the redit platform is the cool little [...]

Before you send that email - think!

Seth godinws published a list of things to check for before you send that email out to everyone in the office - those who like to send global emails that spam my inbox a number of times a day may want to have a read.

Bruce Lee Vs McDonalds

I’ve been pleased to see that McDonalds have been hopelessly flogging dead horses with ‘new’ partners and have relaunched this years Mcdonalds Monopoly. This time they’ve partnered with HMV - god knows how they got suckered into this but hey there is one born every minute.
On an even more pleasing note across in the East, [...]

MySpace Sux (That mis-spelling is for da kids)

In the modern day and age everything in indie music has changed. No longer do bands seem to have to trawl through waves of gigs, supporting people they don’t like in venues they’ve never heard of. Every indie stormtrooper seems to think that all they need now is a digital 8 track (DIGITAL - when [...]

What is the Environmental Impact of Bottled Water?

On Monday I watched a Panorama documentary on BBC 1 which was about the environmental impact of consuming bottled water. And for once I found Panorama to not really be giving me the facts.
In the first half they went through statistics and figures about how bottled water was affecting the environment, all of which were [...]

Maybe I was being previous by hating Arab Strap

For a long time I resisted the urge to buy Arab Strap records. Maybe its because they come from Falkirk, maybe its because they were always at the same clubs as me, maybe its because Aidan used to give me grief about the bands I liked as a kid. Anyway for whatever reason I may [...]

Torrent Police are coming to get ya

It would appear that the UK government is thinking of developing legisaltion to stop you all from downloading pirated music/movies/programs from the Internet.
In a Jedi Mind Trick of a move they want Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to uncover who is illegally downloading files (I thought that was the role generally given to the police of [...]

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