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Excuses, excuses

Due to moving over to a new server, I haven’t had access to make regular updates to the site over the last few weeks.

I’m going to try and get something sorted soon, though, as it’s about time my site had a proper admin system rather than going in via the database managment tool, phpMyAdmin.

I’m also trying to come up with a redesign while I’m at it, which has been a bit of a stop start process since I seem to be lacking inspiration at the moment.

As usual that could all turn around in a matter of days, so fingers crossed I have a flash of brilliance at some point. :o)

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Sold the the highest bidder

I successfully sold the Nokia 3650 I out on Ebay. It went quite well, considering I didn’t pay extra for any promotion of the product, like giving it a thumbnail or bold text in the title.

Granted I only got about ?70 for it, but that’s fine by me – I get some positive balance in my PayPal account and somebody else gets to use a perfectly good phone that would have been gathering dust in a cupboard ’til the day I finally threw it out.

Fliss began to wonder what else we could get rid of, although I’m sure the things we could have sold for a decent amount have lost that luster a long time ago.

Still, it was pretty easy to offload the phone, now that I’ve done it, so it could pay quite well to have a hunt around for possible cash conversion opportunities.

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As good as blue can be

Dave Shea’s latest re-design of Mezzoblue is fantastic. I love what he’s done with it this time around, and although I’ll miss the old-old site, I think it’s the perfect answer to the critics of his “proton” design – an experiment that didn’t please everyone, by Dave’s own admission.

Nothing shows your true character like the ability to bounce right back with a sock–remover, though, and in this case regular visitors can have no cause for complaint. A job well done.

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