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July 29th, 2010

The New Forums are Now Available

Check Out the New Forums Now

After about a month of delays the NEW forum system is now up and running and ready to be used.

To start using the forums simply follow the above link or visit http://www.glenbracegirdle.com/forum/ and follow the links to register, For security reasons only registered using can post.

Please feel free to leave any feedback about the forums in the appropriate thread or as a comment on this post.

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Daily Life., Internet, Random | Posted by Glen

Update On Life

July 11th, 2010

Daily Life

First thing sorry about this being my first post in nearly 2 months.

Life has being very busy with work and doing a lot of overtime, and a trip up to Sydney for the weekend to go to the AFA Sydney get together and catch up with some friends, Also went to Port Macquarie for the day, Was a great weekend but came home so tired.

Went and checked out Shrek Forever after and cinemas the other week,

The movie was better than I expected, My main complaint was it took to long to get into the movie kind of a fast overview of the first 3 movies which I don’t believe was really needed.

Holiday Plans

Also being busy organizing my trip over to the US where I am visiting Washington DC and Los Angles (Disneyland) I will be away about 12 days I leave for the trip on Wednesday. Very exciting.

I will try and make a couple of Blog entries while I am away if I can get access to the computer.

Tech Update

When I get back from US and I am planning on purchasing an iPad and new Mackbook laptop and also looking a getting  iPhone 4 in a couple of months once they are available in Australia.

Web Projects

Still working away on a few on my web sites have a bit more work to do before it will go live, However I will keep everyone updated as things progress,

In Project news I have now updated my Blog to run on WordPress 3.0 have not noticed many major changes yet however am hoping to have a bit of look through over the next couple of days and will try and get a reivew up before I leave to go overseas on Wednesday.

Today

Today I am off to see Toy Story 3 in the movies with Kat.

I will post a short review of the movie later today or tomorow.

I am sure there is plenty more I could write, but I have to run and get organsied to head out soon,  So until next time hope every one is well.

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Apple, Daily Life., Internet, Movie Trailers, Random | Posted by Glen

Project Update

May 13th, 2010

Today I thought I would I give an update on a few of my different web site projects,

  • Easy Web Accessibility – Is a Information based site providing a large selection of articles, On Web Accessibility and how to make your site accessible.
  • Spare Change Station – Spare Change station is a project I have started work on to try raise money for charity, For information check out the site.
  • VIP Fun Online Store -The VIP Online Store offer a selection of Merchandise with Fun Messages / Comments on  them, more items are added daily.
  • Wobbly Eyes Shop -The Wobbly Eyes Shop contains a heap of different products with the Wobbly Eyes Logo on them from Coffee Mugs, Tshirts, Calenders.
  • Wobbly Eyes Site -Wobbly Eyes has now come online at this stage the site is still Under Construction so all you can see is a Holding Page, However this site will be online in October 2010.
  • Glen Bracegirdle .com – New Contact Me Page with Easy to use contact form, and Cool Sites pages with links to a few of my favorite web sites, Also New Forum page now available.
  • Web Building 101 – Will be coming online as of July 1 2010 and will be a weekly tutorial to web site building starting from the basics, working all the way through advanced web site building and trouble shooting code to find problems.
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Daily Life., Internet, Random | Posted by Glen

Reasons to Keep a Facebook Account

May 11th, 2010

So last week I look at reasons to get rid of my Facebook account this week I have decided to look at reasons to keep my Facebook account, I thought I would make a list of reasons so here it goes:

  • Keeps in touch with Friends
  • Great and easy way to Share Photos and more with Friends and Family
  • Lots of fun games to play and waste time including my favourite games, Hotel City, and MyZoo

Wow that was a short list of reasons to keep my account, As this stage I have to admit deleting my account is winning, I never would have thought, But being me I will not rush into it and delete my account, I will think about it over the next few weeks, If you can come with any more reasons to Keep or Delete a Facebook account feel free to add them as a comment.

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Daily Life., Internet | Posted by Glen

Site Stats

May 6th, 2010

Ok I know it is a bit sad but I thought I would share the stats for my site for the last 10 months, So here the are:
Monthly Report: Number of requests by  Month.

Month Number of requests Number of page requests
1. August 2009 3,466 417
2. September 2009 1,771 288
3. October 2009 2,148 427
4. November 2009 5,330 1,071
5. December 2009 3,064 771
6. January 2010 2,570 477
7. February 2010 3,372 701
8. March 2010 3,523 1,033
9. April 2010 4,284 1,566
10. May 2010 1,171 335

Most active month April 2010 : 1,566 pages sent. 5,330 requests handled.

Monthly average: 708 pages sent. 3,069 requests handled.

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Internet, Random | Posted by Glen

NASA Balloon Crashes In Australia

May 4th, 2010

As most people have probably herd in the last week a NASA Balloon crashed in Australia when they attempted to launch it, No one was hurt or injured which is good news,  But it does make we  wonder how can they launch a rocket a simple thing like a Balloon can go so wrong.

Below are few links to some of my favorite News articles on the crash:

Gather.com – NASA Balloon Crash VIDEO

Bigpond.com NEWS – NASA balloon crashes in outback NT

National Geographic – NASA balloon crashes in Australia

You can find thousands more articles on this by Searching Google News.

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Internet, Space | Posted by Glen

April Fools – Happy Easter

April 1st, 2010

Today being April 1 or April Fools Day I thought I would share a few random things I have found net

Apple iTable – Apple iTable – http://www.cnet.com.au/apple-announces-the-itable-339302183.htm

Channel 7 Sunrise Aussie Rules the World – http://au.tv.yahoo.com/sunrise/soapbox/article/-/article/7009815/afls-new-round-ball-plan/

I found this video a great inspiration.

Happy Easter and Have a Great Weekend Everyone.

Well this weekend is the Easter Long weekend, Hope everyone has a nice relaxing long weekend, and eats lots of choclate LOL, I know I will be :-)

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Apple, Daily Life., Internet | Posted by Glen

Web Projects

March 30th, 2010

Well my time the last 2 weeks has being consumed by Work and different web projects I am working on,

The first Web Project I have being working on an online forum for a charity I am working with, This project has being a particular challenge as the site needs to meet very strict accessibility guidelines and be highly customizable by the users who log in.

The Second project is an online guide to making a web site for beginners, This site is going to be based around weekly entries exploring different topics.

The Third project is my Easy Web Site Accessibility Blog, I have being busy writing different articles to post none of them have being posted yet as they are with my editor getting checked and any changes being made.

The Fourth project is a online charity portal which is going to contain information on different charities kind of like a directory.

I will post links to the different web site as times goes and sites are out of testing stage.

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Daily Life., Internet, Random | Posted by Glen

13 February 2010

February 13th, 2010

Today entry has being a challenge to write so far I sat here for 10 minutes and not written a thing.

I have decided to start this post off I will post the visitor stats for 2010 if anyone is interested

Month Number of requests Number of page requests
1. January 2010 2,570 477
2. February 2010 1,754 362

Top search terms on my site for all time:
1. bracegirdle
2. glen
3. misty’s
4. diner
5. @words.txt
6. christmas

I will make a real post in the next couple of days.

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Daily Life., Internet | Posted by Glen