What ho? A ping!

Following hot on the heals of the toadstool post where I first talked about the new XML-RPC features and the lagging behind post where I first moaned about not having them. Logicfury the software my blog runs on now supports pingbacks.

Primarily I use the one ping to ping them all service Pingomatic to dish out my pings also coupled up with a few default ones just to be sure.

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Have a Slicehost hosted site? Come and steal this button!

What's this all about then? A couple of weeks ago Summer Daze was stealthily moved to a new VPS server. My previous host, JaguarPC, turned out to be not as wonderful as I had hoped, well less than wonderful and more of poor to be fair. Slicehost however are (currently) amazing me with their service. So what's so special about it? Well, nothing to be perfectly honest. It simply does as it claims for once and does it well. A decent VPS for a fair price that you get to customise and setup to your hearts content. A web developers nirvana in other words, well server wise anyway. My actual vision of nirvana has less servers and more girls

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Isn't it great? There was a time when my blog was lagging behind in terms of all this new XML-RPC stuff (a fancy word for being able to post to my blog from various sources and perform a few other tricks). Now I can select one of my pictures from Flickr, hit the blog this button and here is where it all ends up, no messing about.

Ah yes, I almost forgot, enjoy the picture

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Sometimes I feel like this blog is left behind in the dark ages of the internet, I can't post pictures from flicker my blog because it doesn't support XML-RPC, ping backs don't work and so on. It would be so nice to have these features like so many blogs do, I feel I would be more inspired to blog if this were the case. So why am I not using some online blogging service like Blogger or some blogging software such as Wordpress that already comes with these nice features?

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I'm not a small guy, in fact I'm taller than the average guy which is why it's so degrading for me to have to buy clothes labelled "small". That aside, it really comes to something when even small is too big.

I got a jumper from a retailer, nothing unusual there. I got the same small size that I'm always forced to have, took it home and it was too big on me, too baggy and the sleeves were too long. How very annoying as I was rather fond of that item of clothing and the retailer doesn't do "extra small".

This made me question the whole size rating scheme. If your a big guy you can choose from "large", "x-large" or sometimes "xx-large" depending on how hungry you were this morning. If you are a small guy you have no option since small has been removed and medium re-branded as small. So why has this happened? Well, the UK is the third fattest nation in the world so perhaps, if we factor in all the obese people I am indeed small by comparison. It's also possible that it's ploy to re-rank all clothing one size lower in order for obese people to get the impression they are fitting into some clothes smaller than they really are.

With the joking aside I think it's a simple case of supply and demand, there's little call for normal sized clothes in England nowadays so rather than remove the "small" range they just increased the size of each range. Curse you abnormally oversized people, I shake my fist at you sirs!

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