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I need to test to see if my advert blocks are appearing correctly, so here’s a post. With an advert.
Now that wasn’t so hard was it?

Well that works perfectly, so I guess I’ll stick a little text in here. Might as well include some real content eh?

I’m in York. It’s winter. The geese have left. Well, the dumb ones. The smart ones hang around and feed off the scraps they are given by the students.

A whole load of stuff has happened over the summer and I didn’t tell many people because I’m like that. Electronics is out - things were going badly, and the exams confirmed that. I’m now doing Computer Science (or Computer Systems and Software Engineering if you listen to the admissions department), and it’s going surprisingly well. If you want to learn esoteric programming languages, York is the place to be. Scheme will blow your mind, not to mention being thoroughly useless after the first year.

Life’s been good, course is easy (for now). The website switched to a new server, and I was a lazy shite but knew that it was about time to redesign the thing. So I didn’t, obviously. Instead, I made websites for other people:

• James College, where I lived last year
• Ennef, my mother’s own venture into language teaching and translation
• Question of Balance, for a friendly guy down the road. He’s made a few alterations to it though, and the code isn’t valid any more. Not my fault, I swear.

And now it’s time to do my own. I’m trying to make this theme as elegant as possible, and hopefully I’ll be able to package it up and make it available for download. It looks ugly just now, I know. That’s because it needs images, and images need photoshop, and installing photoshop requires me to get off my arse. One day, I promise.

Oh, and if you’re wondering what all the extra hints at galleries and photos around the site are for, it’s because I found one sweet photo management plugin. It’s gonna rock.

This is actually just a test for something that a friend wants to try out. If you’ve ever heard of Albino Blacksheep then you’ll know who he is - he runs it. If you haven’t seen the site before, check it out, it’s stuffed to the brim with talent.

Anyways, it’s some javascript thing that creates links to social networking stuff. I’m not sure exactly what it does, because he wasn’t that clear about it, so I guess I should find out.

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Now, let’s see if that worked.

It did! Good! Now let’s see what it does! It didn’t, give me a few minutes.

I hacked it to make it work. What a waste of a test :\