I have been very busy, and even though I have not been able to blog, I have been very involved with WordPress stuff.

What can you expect from me soon?

• 3 Products going live all running on WordPress - more info to come soon
• 1 Free WordPress theme - demo to go out on my next point
• My personal site to seperate WordPress developments from my person life and visa versa
• A few websites for friends all running on a WordPress backend (5+)

So as you can see, even though I have been quite, I have not been doing nothing!

Also I will be devoting an hour minimum a day to blogging on all my sites.

This is a real tester for me but the advantage I have is that I have been in a small business for a while now so the work and array of things I have to do is now second nature. This has also made me rethink how I run my website, and similar to how Adii is doing I will be moving personal blogs to another domain and run my ‘lil web business’ from here.

Along with the change will be 2 new websites, I like the idea of this theme for my personal website but I need to juice it up a bit and then with the range of business I will be doing I need to have a more professional site on seagyndavis.com. So over the next few weeks I will have to new themes out and hopefully I can get to the point of releasing the theme on my personal site to the public.

Lets see how it goes.

From the name you can easily guess what it will do and what it will do is going to change the social arena for good. Many of the features that are being worked on are features that you will find on any of the major Social Networking site such as Facebook or MySpace and so on but obviously as the creator of WordPress, Matthew Mullenweg, seeming tries to do with every bit of code he is involved in is try and make it 100 times better.

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I live by this now.

I have really taken well to the WordPress Model and already have future project ideas lined up ranging from design to plugins.

Please also thumbs for me because I might be starting on my first WordPress freelance job in the next week or two.

Will keep you updated.

If you were old fashioned or just could not afford an LCD screen then yes, you will save about 5% - 20% of the power your computer is currently drawing. However, if you are using an LCD monitor or have a laptop, you are probably not saving anything. This is because a LCD screen still uses electricity to create the black colours on the screen. So if you have a CRT monitor you can save electricity by using Blackle but in all fairness you would save more energy using an LCD monitor than using a CRT monitor with Blackle as your default search engine.

My girlfriends mother put me in contact with her friend about making him a website. I was glad to accept and started on it right away. The current situation is that he wants us to build him an amazing site full of hardcore programming at the original cost. I find it difficult to say no to him without running the risk of getting a bad word in with my ladies mother but on the other hand I have now had 2 sleepless nights building in pagination, GD Library and advanced mySQL sorting queries for all his products.

I must admit I have learnt a lot from this project, but I think you need to be able to tell a client when they flying in the clouds and say this is your limit we will do it for you.

So unless there is an agreement layed down beforehand then I will no longer do business for friends and family unless it is a little venture. If I do get that referall there must be no strings attached or I will push it onto someone else.

After arriving last night I got a call from a client who needed their website updated this weekend for a show during the following week. There goes my relaxing weekend and here come a few problems; Power and internet. Now because I have all my camera equipment with me I took my other camera/laptop bag and left my 3g card behind, read - how to upload a site in the sticks. I was silly enough to go ask at reception if they had any form of reception, and sure enough they did! Wireless internet at that!

So now I am connected to the internet, deep into the Drakensburg… Is that cool or sad?

I heard on the radio this morning that Zuma is opening discussions for the death penalty. Now it is important to note that he did not state that he was for or against it, he just stated that why not have a debate about something that has been decided on in the past and most importantly why not in a country that follows ’strict’ democratic principles.

I have always thought that Zuma would always be a good president even though I might see him as a buffoon.

The topic of the death penalty should bring up very interesting and heated debates - I have always love the topic.

What do you think of it, do you think it is a viable fix for crime or do you think that it could potentially ruin lives of innocent people with our current Judicial system in shambles?

Coincidently at the same time a member on the E30 Club Forum brought up a few tips.

1. Fill up early
   No this does not mean you must beat the rush. Petroleum is effected by temperature and .5 of a degree could change the amount of fuel drastically. The cooler the fuel the denser it is thus making sure you get every drop you are paying for (the warmer it is the more likely you are not getting the full litre the meter is telling you).Remember that the tanks are underground, so filling up in the morning after a long cool night will be best.
2. Slow and easy
   If it is possible, ask the attendant to put the petrol in as slow as possible. You might be in a rush, but the vapors are also in a rush to leave you tank and go back straight into the vapor return on the tank.
3. Do not leave it until the last minute
   Petrol evaporates very easily, so if you leave your tank until it is empty you will have a tank full of vapor which will disappear as soon as that fuel cap is opened.
4. Drive consistently
   It does not matter how fast you drive, if you can keep you foot steady (not flat) you will save that valuable liter. The worst thing you can do is drive slow and put your foot flat to over take a vehicle (Ever wondered how driving on the open road uses less fuel than driving in town?)

Tip: Do not put petrol in whilst a tanker is there putting fuel in. The petrol is being pumped in the tank which “stirs” the tank and brings up all the dirt from the bottom of the tank. Now you do not want that in you motor!

Hope these help you ease that budget for 2008!