Mr Happys online journal

Today we’ve got our first wordpress theme available to download. We’ve made a new section so I can stick more online as and when we make them.
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Have you ever heard of Mimobots? If you have you’ll know they’re fantastic – an absolute must. And the star wars mimobots are even more beautiful. It’s just been announced that series two of the mimbots is about to be released and I’m trying to work out how I’m going to geta hold of these little beauties.

What are Mimobots?

Mimobots are USB drives are more. Yep thats their USP they’re cool, sexy and utterly gorgeous 1GB USB drives. Floppy disk sucked – 5 1/4″ were too wavy and got scratched all the time- tapes were cool and loading screen on the speccy were part of their USP – zip drives for speccys were so much better, but mimobots are the ultimate way to transfer your information from PC to PC. They’re beautiful and useful – is that not what design should be.

When they ship you’ll probably be able to get them at Dinky Box. If you want more news on the new range of star wars mimobots have a look at Vinyl Pulse.

Last night I had a bit of time on my hands – and I’ve been messing about with ‘designing’ themes for wordpress. I am not a designer so it can be an arduous process. But with a little bit of time and using the wordpress sandbox theme I’ve been able to hack a feww together quite quickly – they’re nothing special but they work (which is good).
The glorious pink and blue theme you see before you was hacked together with minimal difficulty and just the addition of one image. Over the next couple of weeks I’m going to go through the anatomy of a wordpress theme and show how to develop simple themes quickly purely by using the sandbox theme and by building a css sheet.

As someone who dabbles in affiliate bits and piece one in a while I am highly interested in how affiliate programs are managed. Working in an agency you see how agencies manage their affiliate programs and from sitting on the other side of the fence (trying to make money for myself) I have an interest in how the programs I work on are managed.
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I really love comics – I still can’t bear to call them ‘Graphic Novels’ – they’re comics. Hand drawn images with/without nice inking and with great content. Its a genre which keeps redeveloping and redefining itself. Online comics have been about for a while but are generally rubbish. However some are kinda funny (and thanks to Wee Mark for giving me the idea for this post).

Cyanide and Happiness

In a word these are fan-dabby-dozie (sp?)

Umbraco is an open source CMS for .net 2.0 – a strange thing in itself with Dot Net stuff normally being expensive and rarely free. So when DotNetDave started talking about Umbraco I was hugely interested – I generally only code (badly) in php so having an open source CMS solution in Dot Net looked like something that could give me a starting point to mess about with .net code – cheers to the guys at Oyster Web for giving me some .net hosting space for free to mess about with.
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Over at Quick Ribbon you can develop ribbsons for your website. My favourite, as I made it is the one here Blogs are Pish.

Never been to Austrralia? Well neither have I and I really have no intention of going. But they do have a cracking little radio station called TripleJ and this glorious little radio station have the habit of putting out some great tunes you dont get over here.
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Urban retro, the home of cool stuff – including ipod geliskins. One of the cool things I’ve found on their website are poketo wallets – if you want to buy one use the promo code ‘Poketo’ to get 20% off expires Friday 23rd November 2007.

I’ve just spent some time trying to get the new Equator Wiki up and running. Which will be cool when I get up and running. However have justr ealised we only have PHP 4.4.7 on our server and need at least PHP 5. This means that the wonderful Wikipedia software won’t work. So instead I’m trying out a number of alternative pieces of Wiki-Style programs to find one that will work.
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