After many happy years my ps3-tribute theme for linickx.com is retiring. Today linickx.com as a new shiny theme, this version is a bit more self indulgent than the last and returns to having a home page with /blog type layout rather than a single entry page.The main aim was to go minimal, I’ve always admired simple themes, hopefully this lives up to the dream! This new linickx version 4 themes is based off of twentyeleven and I’m hoping to leverage some of the new features, I’m already taking advantage of post types and custom backgounds as I digg deeper they maybe more to come

I’m in the process of tweaking any bugs, if you find something that doesn’t look right please let me know.

Yesterday I completed the subversion mirror of my WordPress projects – phpbb_recent_topics , root cookie and linickx lifestream – now this isn’t a migration, it is a mirror! For the time being I’m happy using the subversion tools provided by Automattic and the WordPress team but I understand that git is gaining momentum and many are switching, basically I’m hoping this makes it easier for the WP community to get in touch or make suggestions to the code.

I’m also working on uploading some of my old work, I rely heavily on google to broadcast my wares and perhaps there are some old dinosaurs that need resurrecting by a new community of devs? Well if you’re feeling nosey “A is for Abandonware”

It’s likely that new code and projects will appear on git hub, I’ve been toying with running subversion on linickx.com but now that Xcode4 has git built in this cloud based social service might be a better option…. I guess only time will tell!

Enjoy!

I got the “beta” site up, and pestered some non-technical friends and family to try it out; I came across a fundamental problem: ebays fees are complicated, so there’s only a certain amount of simplifying you can do, general feedback was it was too much hassle… and they didn’t feel the benefit, i.e. they’d much rather just pay the fees…. isn’t funny how large companies can make a fortune by charging lots of people the odd pence here and there, and people would rather pay it than “waste” time finding a way not to pay it.

I’m quiet sad that this didn’t work, but I’m sure there’s another simpler avenue I can explore in the future, good luck to any one who decides to my old domain… well unless your one of those retailers that just buys expired domain names and then charges loads for someone genuine to use them… what I think of you couldn’t be pulished

Some content still needs to be ported from my custom php to wordpress, but it should all be finished soon. I’ve got the wonderful redirection plug-in taking care of everything, if you experience any problems please let me know !

Anywho, all is sorted now, sorry to those that couldn’t get to my wordpress goodies!

Well our ISP had a spam issue, as part of the investigation, to protect calcylator I closed the site; development has been v.sloooooow after the last few months and I thought I’d take the time to reflect.

I stand by that the site is a good idea, working out true profit from ebay is important to individual sucess. The fundamental problem is working out your exact fees per transaction is difficult & time consuming, so users just don’t want to dedicate the time. I’ve been through two iterations of calcylator, and discovered that I just can’t make the process easy enough for users to be bothered. Financially it doesn’t bother me if people can’t work your their profit accurately, but I do want the site (idea) to be successful, so calcylator is moving into a new phase.

The first phase will a gimmick, but hopefully useful, from their we’ll step towards what will hopefully be a better solution… once again, another empty space to watch

I think the best thing about firefox is the extensions, the problem is there is sooooo many; so how do you find the good ones ? Well I’ve decided to set up my own firefox aside, this will allow me to post short notes about the latest extension I’ve found am using.

I’ve just posted three fav’s to get started (loads more to come), if you have any recommendations please let me know else check out my firefox page to see the complete list