Monthly Archives: August 2009

Wasps

Here are about a third of the wasps that family Parker killed before midday yesterday. We have had so many its crazy!

My New Lamp

In celebration of my exam results, Claire’s parents got me this lamp from Ikea. Its orange and solar powered, what could be better! The picture isn’t great, but you get the idea!

New Paris Photography

From my recent trip to Paris, I’ve uploaded just the first of a load of very nice photos on to Flickr. You can see them by clicking this link. Please do comment if you like them, oh and the always brilliant, up-to-date feed is available to subscribe to from here. Enjoy!

Accepted to Uni with 3-straight A's

Today is exam results day for A-levels, and I have managed to achieve 3 A’s in Economics, Maths and Geography – which I’m really, really impressed with! This means that I have been accepted onto the fabulous course of Real Estate at the university of Reading – here I come!

Been painting and sanding some more windows today, and my hands feel relly dry

This is the first post with Yourls

This afternoon I have installed the Yourls plugin for WordPress. It creates a short URL service (like tinyurl.com or bit.ly) from your own domain, so mine will be http://robparker.org.uk/l/(characters) The l stands for link by the way! You can see more and even try out the service by visiting robparker.org.uk/l The plugin takes your posts [...]

All sorts of URL shortening things I've played with this afternoon

Having a very strange day where I'm even impressed by electricity!

WordPress Tools and Plugins – WP Greet Box

This is a great little plugin that adds a message to each post instructing the user to subscribe to an RSS feed, follow, friend or bookmark the site. It is so easy to use and to install and it is just another tool to get repeat subscribers and to help push up awareness of your [...]

Been very geeky this afternoon and learnt how to use Custom Fields in WordPress