Jon Jolly

my life and youth work…

Entries Tagged ‘website’

Paper Robots In Disguise

As a kid (and adult too) I had a great love and fascination of Transformers. I still have a huge box of the toys at my parents and the original cartoon series on DVD.
There have been many incarnations of the heroic Autobots and evil Decepticons (Gen 2, Armada, Beast Wars, Energon, R.I.D., etc.) and [...]

Stop-Motion Music

I found this awesome video a while ago but never posted it here. After posting the Beatbox Recipe I thought I should probably add this too… He says he cannot play drums or piano, just edited the video!

Check the guy out at myspace.com/lassegjertsen

Teenagers and porn

There’s a really interesting article on the BBC website about the use of pornography by children and young people. According to the article:
figures obtained by the BBC from Nielsen NetRatings reveal one in four of those aged 12 to 16 who goes online at home looks at sexual images at least once a month. [...]

Stuff for free or waste of time?

So I followed this link about a free ipod. Apparently the BBC ran a news item on it and it’s legit. All you have to do is buy, try or participate in one of their offers and sign up some friends to do the same. Unsurprisingly the offers include insurance, sky TV etc. I’m not [...]

Spiders on Drugs

A randomly funny YouTube video.

Thanks to ysmarko

Behaviour-Changing Parasite

Ok, I know this is a random post but I had to link to the following story about “A ridiculously common parasite [that] can change people’s behavior, making us dumber and more sexy”. Enjoy!

Happy New Year!

I’ve been trying to think back over 2006 and sum up my thoughts of the year. All in all it’s been quite an emotional ride and I’ve taken on a lot of responsibilities; buying a house, working towards my DipHE Level 2, staff changes at work, etc. So I thought I’d be fun to take [...]

ebay hijacking…

so I got back to my desk this afternoon after being out the office for 3 hours to find around 60 emails from ebay! Most were confirming that I’d listed a Chanel bag/purse, three were asking questions on the listings and the around ten were ebay telling me the listings had violated trademarks and were [...]

Sorted!

Finally, I worked out what was slowing the site down - and of course it’s obvious now I think about it. All the RSS Feeds that I placed on the front page just sucked all the bandwidth! Anyway, it works fine now so go back and read all the great stuff you missed!

Wordpress internals

I’ve been playing around with some settings in the wordpress dashboard for this site. The first thing I’ve done is changed the permalink structure. Now, instead of the url for each post being http://www.jonjolly.com/?p=120 they are something more memorable such as http://www.jonjolly.com/2006/10/08/Wordpress-internals. This may mean that some links to old pages have been changed, so [...]