Solar Polar - Dave Walker

Ginger Nuts cause anger

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:45:15 +0000

McVities Ginger Nuts

My mate Steve loves a cuppa and some ginger nuts to dunk. Imagine his delight today when his new pack of McVities Ginger Nuts claims to “now have more ginger”.

Delightful you would imagine?

Well, once you get to a certain age, apparently not. Steve wanted to now exactly how much more ginger there was. There was no indication on the pack ingredients or packaging so what to do? Email McVities. That’s what.

Dear McVities,

I want a percentage rate to tell me much more ginger my tastebuds are gonna experience.

Regards,

One angry dunker

Now McVities have got in touch and taken Steve’s comments on board. Well done there fellow. But when did it become ok for a once hip trendy dude to complain about biscuit content. I’m not sure his 16 year old self would have thought it possible.

The thing is.. I’m totally with Steve here and am becoming that grumpy old man too.

Wordpress Plugin : Flickr Search Wall

admin — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 13:26:35 +0000

I’m developing a new Wordpress plugin to show a FLickr Wall of photos.

Might be fun? Check out the beta page here and let me know what you think?

www.solarpolar.co.uk/flickr-wall

It’s like a dream come true

admin — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:29:38 +0000

A dream come true

My dreams are simple.

Batmobile FAIL

admin — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:24:31 +0000

Holy Insurance Claim Batman

Creating a Wordpress Plugin

admin — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 12:28:41 +0000

I’m currently working on some development of some Wordpress plugins. There is a wealth of information on the net but sometimes it’s difficult to put it all together.

This post will build over time and the links below will show what sites have helped me understand plugin development from basic learning to advanced techniques.

How to Build a simple Wordpress Plugin

http://www.unmatchedstyle.com/news/how-to-build-a-wordpress-plugin.php

Kipper has eaten…

admin — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 08:00:05 +0000

Kipper

Over the course of his 1st year with us our slightly manic black lab “Kipper” has eaten…

His first (expensive) foam bed
His own hard plastic bed
His own blankets for keeping warm at night
The tin cans from the re-cycling bin
Horse poo
Various footballs
The dining room chairs
My hand
The laptop cable
A 2kg tub of cooking butter
The Rabbit food
The Cat food
Thomas
a packet of “Nick-Naks”
the portable heater
rabbit poo
all the slippers in the house
a stuffed zebra
adidas gazelles

more to follow no doubt….

The funniest Simpson Episode

admin — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:20:03 +0000

In my opinion this is one of the funniest bits of the Simpsons….

Gentle Ben from Homer Badman

Solar Polar got hacked

admin — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:52:22 +0000

We’ll I’m not sure how yet but our site got hacked. Some dude called “North Storm” got in and changed some code so that it started running malicious code on the server.

The lovely team at Heart Internet we able to identify it and switched scripting off and inform me so kudos to them.

I’ll report fully on the attack later because there seems to be no further information on it.

In the meantime I’m trying to get back all previous posts.

Mr T hits new heights

admin — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 09:46:52 +0000

Mr T‘ >Mr T

Polar Bear Attack

admin — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 11:57:20 +0000

WARNING: This page contains scenes of violence and may not be suitable for young audiences.

These explicit photos of a polar bear attack are not for the faint hearted.

Polar Bear Attack

Click here http://www.clevelandseniors.com/forever/polarbear.htm for more shocking pictures.

(Thanks Pete for that link)