HD-DVD is dead, Toshiba President announces

This morning i was watching BBC News and the Toshiba president was talking about if the company stayed in the HD-DVD business they could go bust. Toshiba have officially announce that they had to drop out of the HD-DVD business giving Blu-ray the clear winner and great victory to Sony. Did the Playstation 3 help with this? I mean Blu-ray players were way more expensive than HD-DVD players and even some of...

Statistically Addicted!

I think i have a problem because i check my stats every single day, multiple times a day!  While checking your stats is a good way of seeing how well your site is doing, there is no need to check them every couple of hours like i do. I also login to my feedburner account to see if i’ve any new subscribers but i know i won’t have because my blog isn’t popular yet. I use Google Analytics...

Blog stats first week online

My blog has been online just over a week and im pretty happy with the results so far. daparky.com launched on the 8th February 08 and each day i’ve gained more visitors according to Google Analytics. Below is graph from the 8th up until now. (click to enlarge) As you can see i had a big spike yesterday due to an article submitted to digg. I currently have 4 subscriber via feedburner but i’m...

10 Unique Toilet Designs

I was browsing through my e-mails this morning only to find some very funny Unique Toilets.I’ve no idea where this has come from and i was basically in a forward. Some are crazy and some are even crazier. I would never think twice about having any of these in my home. I wonder if anyone has actually got a toilet design like the ones below in their home? Which one do you like the best and which would...

Rainbow Six Vegas 2 single player gameplay

Gametrailers.com have released a world exlcusive single player gameplay video for Rainbox Six Vegas 2. I was a bit iffy whether to buy the second Vegas game because it wasn’t that long ago when i bought Vegas for the PS3, it only came out 8 months ago. But after watching the following video, i can now say that i’m deffinately going to buy this when it comes out in a month or 2. This video is...

I’ve just joined Technorati

What is Technorati? Technorati is a search engine for blogs. If your looking for a specific blog, then you would use Technorati to try and find it for you. It is free of charge to join. Technorati indexes over 112 million weblogs as of December 2007. This is a huge number shows just how busy the blogosphere is. What i like about Technorati is the fact that you can search by tags. A tag is basically a...

time, time and time

When your a blogger you really do need to manage your time well. Over the next few weeks i’m going to be looking at my time schedule and see exactly where my time goes. Remember i’m a web developer working from 9 until 5:30 monday to friday, although i am sat at a computer all day and may sneek a post or two during the day. I need to see my girlfriend most days, and spend time with friends and...