Do you think it is possible? I do but it will take honesty, integrity, determination and belief to archive it.

Disappointment hurts
It’s sad when things don’t turn out quite how you expected them to. I’m talking about Open Designs. The community promised so much when it was first launched under a fanfare of “a community site, run by the community for the community”. It seems that it wasn’t to be and the site has firmly remained under the control of a few people who seem reluctant to open the site up to the community.

Money is evil I tell you
Is it the money? The site must make a reasonable sum of money from adverts and donations. I’m sure there is more than enough to pay for hosting and a few prizes for competitions. I do wonder if money really is the “root of all evil”. It often seems that money causes more problems than it solves. I would rather see no money and a thriving community rather than a rich autocracy.

…and finally
Time will tell. I hope it is not the end of the dream and that the community can overcome it problems.

I recently got an email from Tim Zylinski who has updated his German translation files for my themes:

• Chameleon: http://www.zyblog.de/data/chameleon-de_DE.zip
• Ebony: http://www.zyblog.de/data/ebony-de_DE.zip
• WP-Andreas06: http://www.zyblog.de/data/wp-andreas06-de_DE.zip
• WP-Andreas09: http://www.zyblog.de/data/wp-andreas09-de_DE.zip
• WP-Multiplex 3: http://www.zyblog.de/data/wp-multiflex-3-de_DE.zip

While he was at it he also tested all the themes in WordPress 2.5 and they are all compatible.  Tim has kindly taken the time to enter them in the WP 2.5  compatibility list.

Thanks Tim. What a great guy!

It may seem unrelated but I went out for a run today. Yes I do that to try and keep fit! No I didn’t see loads of dog faeces but I did see loads of litter. I passed tons of the stuff. There were discarded McDonalds cups and bags, plastic bags full of litter, Christmas crackers, lumps of polystyrene, and even old clothing. All this was along the side of the road in the grass verge looking like it had been discarded from the passing cars.

Now I know dog poo isn’t nice, nobody wants to stand in it, it shouldn’t be left in the middle of the pavement, and you should clean it up, but at least it is biodegradable and won’t be here in a few weeks never mind the hundreds of years some of the other litter will be with us for.

It’s a shame the same effort that has been put in to the dog mess problem hasn’t been put into the litter problem!

Nobody seems to care as long as they don’t step in it!

I’m busy studying for yet another exam that I shall be taking in a few days! Only 1 more after this one so the end is in sight. There’s a bit of light at the end of the tunnel at last.

Once my exams are out of the way I have been thinking about changing direction here at Webgazette.co.uk. When I first started this website I intended it to be about other websites - a sort of "best of the web" type thing. Now I am thinking of going back to that.

I wouldn’t remove any of the existing content but I may rearrange it a bit.

What do you think? Has anybody got any thought or comments on this?

Now stop being boring and go party

Way to go! It makes you wonder what else the Government can inflict on us. Whatever it is, you know damn well that they’ll find a way to tax it

For anyone that really wants to learn more about the latest farce look here or for a little eye opener try this link. I’m not really sure if I want to laugh or cry!

Google has been getting a lot of press over it’s recent review of its Page Rank that has seem many blogs Page Rank dropping through the floor.

From what I have been reading it would seem the many are suggesting less that honourable intentions.

Is Google evil or are they just trying to make search results more relevant?

Everything seems to work as it should although there were some minor issues with the way categories are assigned class or ID names with the updated Widget code. I have also been informed that WP-Andreas09 has some minor issues with the way categories are displayed with Widgets. A minor style sheet tweak will fix these so let me know if you need the fix and I’ll send it or put it up for download.

I’ve still got to get my head around the changes that have happen to WordPress, so if anybody knows some good tutorials about working with the new features such as tags, please let me know.

I don’t want this to be yet another apologetic post for not posting, so maybe a little discussion of what could happen would be better.

In fact I’ve been giving the future of this website quite a bit of thought recently. I’ve never really been happy just abandoning it while I do my studies but the problem is my studies take up most of my spare time so there is little time left for blogging. There is certainly no time for web design or WordPress themes either at the moment. And, if that wasn’t enough, there’s that little thing called work that also seems to get in the way! So there you have it - I’ve no time and too busy to blog / design / make themes etc.

The other problem is that I’ve also lost a lot of the enthusiasm I used to have for blogging due to being so busy with other things. The question has got to be, what do I do with this site? Here’s a list of some things I’ve considered:

1. Ignore it and hope it goes away
2. Delete it and start again. Yes all of it, themes and all!
3. Sell it.
4. Change topic.

I’m not sure what will work. I think the root of the problem is that I have lost a lot of the enthusiasm for blogging and I am too busy to be bothered a lot of the time. On the other hand I don’t want to see it all thrown away.

Anybody got any advice or ideas?

I’m now glad to say that I have done the first exam and passed. Yay! There is still a long way to go so I can’t see me getting back to blogging as much as I used to do but it’s one step along the way.

Ok that’s all for now