WTF?!?

So I’ve been having a look at my stats and they are hilarious!  Here are some of the search terms that have found my blog:

“i feed my husband dog poo” - I SWEAR to god I never have…tempted perhaps..but no

“eat her” - don’t think I want to go there!

“betty poo” - yes she is!

“david tennant teeth” - are very nice!

“carrots” - I’m sure there are lots of other blogs that can deal with this

“betty boob” - she’s got some lovely ones

“Poo Slave’ - please don’t come back

“Friends Mum in Leather” - seriously don’t come back!!!

“cu” - don’t want to know where that typing was going……

It’s great reading, I really must get a better analytics package on this account!

Google/Blogger SORT IT OUT!

Honestly what is wrong with the support staff at Blogger?  Angie Smith has been writing very movingly on her blog ‘Bring the Rain’ about the struggle she and her family have had since finding out their daughter Audrey Caroline would be born with terminal birth defects.  Audrey was born on the 9th April and died 2 hours after birth having met her family.

Angie and her family have been through the unthinkable and have shown great strength and grace since they found out their daughter’s limited life expectancy.  No parent should ever have to deal with this and I can’t imagine how they have got through this.

I just popped over there to see how they are doing and found the following message:

>>I just want to let you all know that Blogger has identified my blog as a potential “spam blog” because of the number of viewers (I don’t really understand this), and they have frozen it until someone has a chance to review it and determine that it is not. You can leave comments, but I can’t post

During this week in particular, I have really needed my prayer warriors, but it won’t let me update anything until they check it out (they told me it would be about 4 business days).  I will write as soon as it will let me…please pray that will be soon! Thanks, Angie<<

WHAT THE HELL ARE BLOGGER PLAYING AT?!?!?!?!  The woman has just lost her daughter, she doesn’t need this kind of rubbish.  I’m irate at the way they are treating this, 4 days…..it takes two seconds to log onto the blog and see that there is no spam there and no harm.  If they don’t want to host it because of the bandwidth then let Angie know, and I’m sure that lots of other people will in fact I’ll be first in the queue!!.

Blogger you should be ashamed at your actions and you should rectify this situation asap - it’s just disgusting.

***UPDATE Angie has her site back - hurrah!******

Firefox 3 Beta

Since I moved to my Mac I’ve been a little disappointed with my internet browers.  Safari is ok (but nothing special) and Firefox which was awesome a release ago has sucked since I upgraded to version 2.  It crashed on a regular basis, literally every 10 minutes and was as slow as hell.  It got to the point I was mourning the loss of IE7 despite my husband’s hatred of it (web geek moans about rendering from him!) but at least it worked!!

But yesterday my prayers were answered and I downloaded the new shiny Firefox 3 beta (frankly I thought it couldn’t be worse than what I was using!)  It’s wonderful, fast, doesn’t crash, rendering is better with fonts and it’s easy on the eye.  Much improved - thanks Mozilla! :)  Download it here

Awwww

X- Files: I Want to Believe

Ah screw it, I’m getting excited about this movie (Geek Mum and proud!). The new movie is going to be called….

X-Files: I Want to Believe

Bit of a crap title, but having read this excellent interview today on Shocktillyoudrop.com , I’m a lot more psyched about the movie.  I’m still in shock to realise the series first started 15 years ago, I’m going to have to start lying about my age soon!

But I just made this on elitemrp.net and it made me laugh….seriously I do need to get a job!

Picnik

I think I’ve had a play at somepoint with just about every online photo editing product there is. But I’ve got a new favourite Picnik. It’s really simple and free to use, apart from the usual tools you can also add a nice choice of frames or text and even whiten your teeth :). For basic blogging or just messing around with photos it’s great. It can link in with your Flickr, Myspace, Picasca accounts and you can just grab photos from there.

Here’s a picture I literally knocked up in a minute

Geek Husband was just looking over my shoulder and asked ‘is that a web app?’ in a disbelieving tone - thus proving it’s good

The people behind it are incredibly talented looking at their About Us page, so I’m not surprised it’s so good. I wish them the best of luck!

Geek Mum approved!!

1 Hour to go…

And the new series of Dr Who starts - hurray!!

My ‘alleged’ daughter hates Dr Who (she’s 5 and supposed to *love* it like the rest of the family!) So I’m breaking out the Ben and Jerry’s Cookie Dough ice cream, I’ve made her a camp in our bedroom and she can watch as much ‘Rough Science’ as she likes, so I can have some peace and quiet.

Anyway here is a picture of the lovely David Tennant…..well just because

New Look WordPress

WordPress has changed it’s admin layout and it’s just perfect now (and it was pretty good before!)  I’ve just been trying to use blogger and although you can update the templates more easily and for free unlike WordPress, the functionality is just rubbish.  I want to see my stats on the admin part of my blog and not have to log into Google Analytics everytime.

Why on earth is Google Analytics not the default stats system on Blogger without any configuration (which is a pain the ass for the non- technical), it should just be there.  Most people haven’t a clue how to code, and it’s something that is so essential to your blog.

So WordPress will be keeping me for a while longer, especially with the new sexy interface - nice work Automattic!