Published on Tuesday, 5th February, 2008 .
I just spent what feels like my lifetime widgetizing the sidebar. Well part of the time was finding a workaround for the id=links validation bug and part was finding a way to widget-wrap the theme switcher. Still, it’s now good to go for easy manipulation my-side.
I did this as billie-jo’s blog is widgetised and recently I’ve been adding hundreds of links at a time to the blogs for blogshares purposes. Adding them to this blog and my blogshares blog was disgustingly difficult to do with all the navigating the back end to get to the sidebar file, then putting the links in the right place without messing anything up, yuck! with billie-jo’s I just opened a text widget and threw the links in there. So, now I can do this here too! woohoo!
Published on Sunday, 5th August, 2007 .
I’ve realised I’ve never really blogged about IRC. I don’t know why either. So here goes.
I’ve been using IRC since I first got on the internet and after a few weeks of surfing the ‘net began to wonder “where is everyone else?” Innes mentioned some program called mIRC and gave me a copy to toy around with. I was hooked after my first day. At the time mIRC was set to default to the DALnet network. mIRC was the largest windows IRC client so DALnet was the largest IRC network. This has since changed though so now more of the other networks get a better look in. The website NetSplit has loads of IRC related stats for the more anal amongst you! I like the smaller networks however (less assholes!)
One of these great networks is the WyldRyde IRC Network which I have recently joined as part of my BlogShares journey. IRC and these smaller networks in particular are a great place to “meet” folks from all around the globe to discuss any and all subjects. I’m obviously using the blogshares channels at the moment but even within that there are many levels of discussion. Plus if you are using mIRC you can pretty much entirely customise it. I write my own scripts but there are millions of other’s available too.
btk (this sounded like an essay didn’t it!) 
Published on Wednesday, 1st August, 2007 .
I mentioned in my last post about blogshares, well, I’m taking part in a competition on it by the 23,000 chippies corporation. A part of this is to blog about the competition.
The whole 23 thing is run by Rantz, an offbeat ozzie 
who has a fixation with all things 23, annoyingly this is also the 23rd competition he’s run so I reckon he’s beside himself with excitement. 
I took part in the last competition in their IRC Channel and what a laugh it was. It was fastest fingers first(generally a guy called Ken) to answer Rantz’s bizarre questions, one example:
Question: H-I-J-K-L-M-N-O
Answer : Water
It was nevertheless strangely addictive and I sat up until after 4 one morning answering them! The big prize this time is 23,000 chips. Chips in blogshares are used for many things, personally I sell them for B$ cash, as each chip is worth over B$25,000,000 at the moment. That cash is handy to buy up shares in blogs and “tools” for takeovers and things. Well this post only needed to be 150 words so I’m gonna stop now! Thanks for reading and get onto blogshares NOW!
btk 
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