UK Royal Navy Warships for Stranded Britons. Do it!

For the senior service, this is surely a major PR success and a great way to see the UK taxpayers money at work.

Personally, if I were stranded in Europe and I had the choice of returning to the UK on a plane or a warship, c'mon there is no choice.

Hopefully the powers that be actually do this. Imagine the delight on all those kids faces when they are told that they will be returning home on board one of Britain's mighty warships.

I also bet that the Royal Navy would receive a sharp rise in applications shortly thereafter.

Just make sure that you keep an extra eye on the ASBO's. I am sure there will be quite a few of them trying to get home as well.

Do it Britain, do it for the publicity if nothing else!



Muzzerino.com

Windows 7 Theme, Nova Scotia, Canada

Hey fans!

I decided to try my hand at creating a half decent Windows 7 .Themepack file, based on some of my best Nova Scotia photographs so take a look and download!

This is a Canadian Windows 7 theme using photos of one of my favourite places, Nova Scotia. Enjoy!

• Nova Scotia, Windows 7 Themepack : Download >>

A Fairer Union Jack? Alternative Design

Controversial? Yes I am sure it is. I have always loved the Union Jack Flag design, but I do acknowledge that it is not representative of all the people of the UK.

Wales is of course left out completely as they fall under the English St George's cross due to complex historical reasons.


Scotland is well represented in the Union Flag, but has been a little bit diminished since Ireland was joined to the UK in 1800 and thereafter the St Patrick's Cross was added which covered up some of the Scottish St Andrews Cross.


I decided to go ahead and Photoshop the above alternative to include the Red hand of Ulster which from what I have read is not an official flag, however it is often used by British Unionists and therefore I reckon it is suitable for this topic.

Wales of course has to be included as well and although they have an awesome flag, it is very difficult to fit it into the overall design without completely changing it. I thought if the Welsh Dragon was included in the middle, it would be quite cool.

Please let me know what you think in the comments!

muzzerino.com

• Dear American, this is NOT the Flag of England >>
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Unacceptable Swear Words in New Zealand

Warning: Adult Language ahead!

We are being desensitised toward profanity!

The New Zealand Broadcasting Standards Agency has published a document called 'What Not to Swear: The Acceptability of Words in Broadcasting'. Original document @ BSA.govt.nz

It has revealed that many NZ'ers are not too offended anymore by words they hear on the radio and tellybox, such as, bugger, bloody, crap, bullshit, balls, shit, bastard, prick, arsehole, wanker, whore, retard and faggot just to name a few.

51% of NZ'ers do not appreciate having their South Pacific ears soiled by the word 'Fuck' but in 2009 a massive 74% (down from 79% in 1999) of people still consider the undisputed heavyweight champion of swear words to be the one which is absolutely guaranteed to offend. I am of course talking about the one, the only. 'C-u-n-t'.

See You Next Tuesday.

Check out Kiwiblog's take on the issue >

Video: Auckland in High Definition

This is my 2nd effort at making an HD 720p video for YouTube on the Flip Mino HD.

I put the camera on a tripod and jammed it between the dashboard and the passenger seat, making it very solid. I did however get some of the bonnet in shot and a few reflections but nothing major.

Overall, I think this is the type of filming the Flip Mino HD is ideal for. The camera does have quite bad shimmering effects (like many small lens cameras and mobile phones) but a static tripod shot like this seems to defeat that. This journey was From the North Shore to Auckland City. Featuring Browns Bay, Waiake beach area, SH1, Northern Motorway, Auckland Harbour Bridge, CBD, Ponsonby and Karangahape Road.

hope you like it.



Music by Alexander Boyes and Manolo Camp, thanks to Opsound.org

Wordpress Comment Discarded. Why am I not surprised?

Why am I not surprised?

I have never been quite able to put my finger on it, but I think one of the reasons why I have never really taken to Wordpress is that it seems to have the vibe of that smug, superior mac user thing going on behind the scenes. You know what I mean, they are the guys who never to to the pub, they only go to the trendy cafe.

This is quite a lot to discern from one simple thing, but I feel now is the time to write it down.

I just visited a blog which uses Wordpress and attempted to leave a comment. After writing for a few minutes I hit the submit button and what did I see?

A white page with the word 'discarded' at the top left hand side. No explanation, no apology, just 'discarded'.

This is extremely annoying.

I read up on it and apparently there are Wordpress setting which will cause comments to be 'discarded' if the post is more than 30 days old.

How the hell is a visitor supposed to know this? Or do all Wordpress users have some kind of internal process which informs them of such things in advance?

I know I am bathering (blethering) but has anyone else had this type of vibe from Wordpress?

I certainly hope so!

Muzzerino.com

YouSayToo Adsense Sharing, does it work?

That's what I want to know. I have been signed up with these guys for a while and forgot that the point of it was to gain a bit more readers and a little bit of Adsense sharing.

I paid them a visit today and they certainly have Adsense blocks pasted over their pages, but why have I not seen a since cent from it?

I double checked my code and publisher ID, but still. Not a single cent.

Perhaps this is due to lack of traffic? of course, this could be the reason, but many of my most read articles rank much lower in organic results of Google than the YouSayToo copy of the same post. Yet still, no Adsense. I get approx 400 unique visitors a day with around $1 - $4 in Adsense each day. Sometimes more, sometimes less.

Some other sites that I use Adsense with seem to rotate my pub-id with their own and I can verify that my ID is being shown by checking the source code on the page. YouSaytoo.com seem to use a different method, I cannot find my pub-id in the source code anywhere...


*Update,
The guys are YouSayToo got in touch with me and drew my attention to the URL channels set up on Adsense. I have added www.YouSayToo.com to it and I am waiting to see if there is any impressions or clicks recorded under it. I will let you know what I find.

Muzzerino.com