Paul O'Flaherty

What A Week

I love weeks like this, where everything unexpectedly starts to come together.

Sara and I have been plugging away at out pet project, humor site Daily Shite, for months now. We’ve been watching it grow slowly and celebrating as we’ve hit various milestones. We’ve watched with pride and more than a fair few glasses of wine (to celebrate the occasion) as 100 views a day went past, then a 1000, then 5000, 10000 and 20000. We whooped and cheered like we’d one the lottery when we broke our first 50000 day, and last night we sat back in sheer amazement as we soared beyond our first 100000 (one hundred thousand) day.

This post isn’t to pimp out Daily Shite although you really should visit and join the Facebook page while you’re at it. It’s to say thank you.

Thank you to everyone who has visited, stumbled and dugg posts, retweeted us and pimped us to their friends. To our authors for their contributions and to our readers and friends who have been emailing and sending contributions via IM.

Most of all I want to thank Sara. She’s done a ton of work behind the scenes, not just putting up posts and pimping Daily Shite left, right and center and deserves more credit than I for us hitting this milestone.

Now, bring on our next challenge – the 200000 day

Kicking and Screaming

I'm Back!

It’s been almost a month since I posted last. Christmas, New Years and the fact that due to some misfortune I nearly lost all of the data for this site, it’s been hard to find time get things back up and running.

The long story short is that I lost all of the data for this site, but was at least able to restore all of the content from backups (actually loosing on the images embedded in the two most recent posts) and only had to deal with the loss of my theme.

Being the beginning of the year, a new start and the first year I am officially divorced, starting with Sara as my fiancé, I took the near destruction of my blog as a chance to relaunch and restart.

You’ll see that I’ve gone for a completely different style of theme this time around. For all of my ranting before about wanting to break out of the tech blogger mold, I never managed to break away from it in terms of the layout and theme of my blog. Now I have and there’s no looking back baby! Expect more of my callous sarcasm to grace your screen in the coming days, months and years (assuming I live that long!).

Now, far be it from me to sit on my arse and undertake the reworking of just my own site. Fans of Daily Shite will see that it was been completely overhauled, jammed to the gills with new features and given a swift kick in the pants for good measure.

We only reopened Daily Shite today and it wouldn’t have been possible without Sara’s help in editing a mountain of posts in order to fit the new design and future proof the content for any possible redesigns. Thanks babe!

Oh, and I almost forget to mention Daily Shite’s, ginger bastard child “Bit Slut“.  Go check it out!

So folks. New year, new life, new start! All I need now is a big old cranky stick!

Clearly Google thinks I need religion!

I was just over working on Daily Shite, (one of the pet projects of mine and Sara’s) when I was taken aback by the adverts being displayed on the site.

We’re currently using Google AdSense to monetize the project and have 3 advertising spots in the sidebar.

Today 2 of them were video ads for the Tom Cruise cult Scientology and the other is text ads for “God Pictures” and “Christian Dating Atheist”.

That strikes me as a fairly strange choice of adverts for a page where today the dominant content involved:

• A New Approach to Potty Training (bondage involved)
• Kate Gosselin Dating video (okay, maybe that one I can understand)
• Two deer humping to sell you condoms
• Inflatable Ingrid, every garbage mans fantasy!

See where I’m going with this? Clearly Google thinks I’m a very bad man that needs saving!

YouTube has PMS

Well that explains everything. Sara sent me a couple of links a few minutes ago to YouTube videos to check out for posting on Daily Shite.

Strangely, none of them would load, then I looked down at the bottom left hand corner of my browser and everything became clear:

Waiting for pms.youtube.com…