So one of the things I have noticed while making many of the changes to OSNN over the last few weeks if the quality of the adverts.

Giving the users the option to subscribe and hide all adverts is far too tempting to not include myself so I honestly won't see them all that often. However, as I have been working on the site I have not only had them enabled for my various test accounts but been fairly disgusted at how bad they are.

Every other advert seems to be about how some house wife has discovered the ultimate way to make her teeth whiter and while I briefly found this fairly interesting, my attention was not held.

Now that the various ad blocks have near enough been finalized I am going to try and work towards making cooler and more relevant adverts.

The current OSNN adverts:
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If you have been waiting for more information on my fish tank, then tonight your dreams will become true. To everyone else, I have fish. Obviously the meer existence of such a blog means I am avoiding doing something else, but I promise I will do that next! You are not the boss of me!




So firstly I am sad to report some deaths in the community! One of the algae eaters and both Firemouths died sadly, I think the firemouths were rather prone to infections and although I tried my best, they seemed to get weak and die. It was at different times and the second clearly had an infection which seemed to be going away after treatment but it suddenly became very clear I would be removing it from the tank the following morning.

I didn't buy any new fish for quite some time, last week actually. The remaining fish are getting quite big so I was very hesistant to put more in - there is plenty of room but you alwas want to give them their space especially...

So the longer term members will have noticed that over the last year or so and a gradual decline before that I hadn’t been playing a large part in the OSNN community and I just wanted to go over what I have been up to.

I guess part of it stemmed from the pressure to redesign the site which would have meant skinning and tweaking two separate systems. When I came home from work at night I really just wanted to chill out and enjoy myself. The Virtuanews system was an interest project, but hard work to skin with almost all page elements being spaced out in different yet similar templates. With the collapse of its own site and no real design community it got harder and harder to maintain it as vBulletin continued to change.

Regardless, I was looking for a new style but never really found anything. I met a girl and she became my everything, nothing else mattered. I wanted to be with her all the time and that was perhaps too much because a year and a half later...

I sent some screenshots of the new Windows Mobile themes over to Long Zheng (from www.istartedsomething.com ) two days ago and I can’t help be amused at how far they have already spread around the internet. Perhaps I should have posted them up myself, but I wanted to go a little more in depth and cover my experiences with Windows Mobile 6.5 and what we can look forward to with its release.

The Windows operating system for desktops and servers aren’t the only versions getting a new release this year as Microsoft are also releasing Windows Mobile 6.5 and rebranding the lot of them as Windows Phones.

Windows Mobile 6.1 seemed like a minor upgrade to Windows Mobile 6.0 and although the Standard version received an update to its interface the Professional (or touch screen) version did not. Changes included mostly things for Enterprise such as domain enrolment and compatibility with System Center Mobile Device Manager.

6.1 did however start attempting...

So here we go, this post is completely irrelevent to technology and completely and utterly getting in the way of my review of the HP mini as a few thoughts about the HP PhotoSmart and MediaSmart - but I am doing it anyway.

So in Summer of 2007 I decided one day I wanted a fish tank so I rocked on down to Porton and during the selection of tanks it suddenly dawned on me that I could go ahead and make it tropical with the addition of a heater

So, I wanted to take this seriously so I got it setup - waited a week to let the bacterial agents do their thing and convert the ammonia into nitrates and then the nitrates into nitrates (or was it the other way around?)

My 15 litre tank was'nt very big at all and was only support a single fish to start with (or I was playing it safe) - this fish was a Synodontis - a type of catfish and I still have him today, two of them infact.

I experimented with more fish such as Kryptopterus bicirrhis (glass...