Shoot the messenger who delivered MyBlogLog Sunday 26 late! Sorry, I was dreaming about the ocean and then images of storms from last night's film, The Day After Tomorrow, and I got all side tracked and distracted and... anyway. Rock y Roll, as they say in Spain.

The 10 MyBlogLog bloggers who last visited this site prior to my late start at blogging have been snapped and will get a mini review later on today. In the Ed style of things, these blogs will be summed up in a few choice words which include a juicy PR5 backlink and a link to their MyBlogLog community. If the bloggers leave a link to their own fave post of the week, I will stumble that post too.

I don't know if it is me being dumb, but I have Stumbled posts via the toolbar and sometimes I am asked to write a review, and other times I just get the Thumbs Up without any review options. I assume others have already stumbled and reviewed those thumbs-up posts and I am just adding to the votes or such like. Is that right, or am I failing in my Stumbling duties

Prize day
I only saw one Technorati mention of MBL Sunday this week, so the 25th birthday contest was a bit a flop. Rather than draw attention to the embarrassing turn out, I will quietly rethink a new contest. Dum de dum de dum....

Permalink is permanent
All mini reviews from today will stay on the homepage (PR5) all week and are instantly added to the archives for a permanent back link to your mini review

MyBlogLog Sunday info links

Be back later.

PS Since last week's first anniversary, I would like to announce that our second year of marriage has been going really well, thanks.

Having skilfully avoided taggings and memes for many months, I was seduced by Linda (metaphorically, you understand, )and I have joined the Desktop Free View party. So here it is, Ed's desktop!



This is an illuminating shot of the Plaza in Salamanca when Don Quijote appeared at an open air theatre extravaganza a couple of years ago. That is the demented knight on the left, tilting at windmills, 30 feet up. It seems to reflect the task of bloggers today trying to hit the big time!.

As per the rules of this blog tag, I haven't tidied up the icons, so this is a 100% Mac desktop in all its disarray. I use the computer too much to be artsy anal about a spotless desktop. At the end of the week, though, it should be a little more organised!

To continue the desktop freeview orgy

Viola, reveal your desktop if your name is Larry Hnetka and you go Hmmm, or Mike and you go aah at your Celebrity photos, or Matt and you invite bloggers to Blog about your blog, or Jeremy and you Tech It Easy, or Tyler Cruz and you are loaded.

Wot u guys should do

Post a screenshot of your desktop in your blog. You can also explain why you preferred such a look or why is it full of icons. Things like that.

Tag five of your friends and ask them to give you a Free View of their desktop as well.

Add your name to this list of Free Viewers with a link pointing directly to your Desktop Free View post to promote it to succeeding participants.

List of those who participated in the tag:

iRonnie
skippyheart
thesserie
domlawrenceosb
sasha-says
maiylah’s snippets
My Memoirs
Asara
Coffee 2 go
Are We There Yet??
The Pisstakers

I remember years ago, being shouted at by a punk rocker with green mohawk spikes and rings through his nose. What the hell are you lookin' at?

Er, you?! It seemed such a dumb question on his part. Why dress outrageously if you don't want to be stared at?

On another occasion I was at the bus station after school and was caught staring at a girl. When she called me on it, on that occasion, I wasn't sharp enough to reply coherently and missed my chance to impress her with my wit and humor. I blushed to my pubescent roots and prayed silently for the earth to open up and swallow me whole. (I saw her years later and thanked my lucky stars I had been a klutz that first time. In her case, time hadn't been kind to her. She looked like she had swallowed a few too many young bucks whole and then been hit in the face by a bus. Ouch.)

And finally, if you want to grab attention, David Beckham style, why not try a subtle and sophisticated Chinese tattoo? Stares and gasps can be yours if you try one of these cool Chinese tattoo designs for size! Go on, you know you want to be gawped at.

I will now don a sober gray suit and crawl back into my private hidey hole to avoid the embarrassing stares and glare of publicity.

Last week I did a tech post on the mind numbingly dull topic of 301 redirects. The message was loud and clear. If you make sure that all links from http://yourdomain.com are redirected to http://www.yourdomain.com, you could seriously improve your chances of being found by those pesky search engines.

After mucking about with redirects, lo and behold, one week later thepisstakers have meteored from the 72% "quartile" to the top 82% slot in the internet heirarchy. Woo hoo. In other words, of the 100 million blogs online, there are only 18 million pulling more traffic, generating more backlinks and spreading better material than me!

Well, interestingly, this rise in "authority" coincides with a slight drop in traffic and a stagnating Technorati rank! Go figure.

Not saying that stats aren't interesting, encouraging and entertaining, but really, what are they worth in the real world? When I started about a year ago, I thought it was best to assume that the internet stats scene isn't the real world, and stats are a gamers' paradise where up is down and good is bad. Unfortunately, many advertisers and opportunist money makers have promoted the internet until it has become its own real world organic eco-system of 0's and 1's, and online stats are very important and highly reflective of the true state of websites published on the web. So people like me need to get over it already and play the game.

I guess I just need to re-jig my brain to "virtual" mode and live by the numbers rather than judge the true entertainment value of the content before my eyes. I need to realise that lists are good, and 7 How To do things lists are stellar; copied and pasted lists are gold, and saying Hi, thanks for the add is a basic building block to fame and fortune in the top 10.

With those simple concepts fixed in my mind I can blog in peace, and maybe one day, I will even understand what all the stats mean and learn how to interpret them and even profit from them.

Have a good day. (In internet terms, I think that really means you will have a bad day at work, but when you get home, you will discover a hot new link train on a I had a bad day at work type of blog?)

Where do you rank according to the Website grader?

Hey, don't tell anyone, but tomorrow, Sunday, is the 26th episode of MyBlogLog Sunday. Some say MyBlogLog is going stale, but I like stale and another 10 happy souls from MyBlogLog will get their blogs mini-reviewed tomorrow - whether they like it or not - just like these 250 past stars.

Anyone with a MyBloglog account who calls by this site tomorrow morning may be captured in the screenshot of my sidebar. By sundown they will then suffer a few wise words from sharp shooter, Ed.

Don't be fooled by the spin. This is all a thinly disguised attempt to garner some link love for you guys out there. The Pisstakers is a PR5 site and that means some Technorati and Google kudos for most of the blogs I review. So, join the Sunday phenomenon that is about as big as a Welsh village church congregation. You can even add to its weight with some mention or other of MBL Sunday on your own blog. Take a leaf out of Principled Discovery's book. They gave us a few moments of praise, it felt good!

Last week, to celebrate 25 issues, I did offer some gummi bears and an unidentified electrical appliance for the best review of MyBlogLog Sunday, but the response has been underwhelming. Therefore, i will have to dream up a more inspiring way to give away some goodies! Hasta tomorrow.

Hold on to your horses, folks it's MyBlogLog Sunday 25. Happy Birthday to everyone involved thus far.

For the 25th time in recent history the 10 most recent bloggers to visit this site have been snapped and will get a mini review later on today. In the Ed style of things, these blogs will be summed up in a few choice words which include a juicy PR5 backlink and a link to their MyBlogLog community. If the bloggers leave a link to their own fave post of the week, I will stumble that post too.

Prize day
If you care to write a killer post about MyBlogLog Sunday, send me the link. I will post all the links next week and we can have a little community vote and the winner will get some goodies, including Gummi Bears and an electrical appliance.

A brief history of MyBlogLog Sunday
When I was thinking of new ways to be a good community-minded blogger, I did think about sending free articles, $25 gift vouchers, and a partridge in a pear tree to every visitor to my site. On reflection (and a quick financial appraisal) MyBlogLog Sunday mini reviews seemed to be a more practical way to provide link love whilst adding content worth tuppence to the internet. And so, I launched the format and apart from a mid-summer glitch, every Sunday has been the same here!

Judging by the stats, though, I think that I was a bit idealistic about the aims of MyBlogLog Sunday. It seems that if I had simply added bloggers' names to a link train or some such list, they (and me) would rapidly have a Technorati ranking to die for without needing to suffer 250 mini reviews!

Despite the evidence, though, I prefer to remain idealistic and will continue to mini review MyBlogLog members until the unlikely event that MyBlogLog fizzles out and/or Technorati rankings trail off into statistical irrelevance. Enjoy.

Permalink is permanent
All mini reviews from today will stay on the homepage (PR5) all week and are instantly added to the archives for a permanent back link to your mini review

MyBlogLog Sunday info links

Be back later.

PS As well as being the birthday of MyBlogLog Sunday and Lord Likely fan, Andy Fanton, it is my first wedding anniversary, so I have a feeling that the reviews will arrive quite late in the day!

According to Reuters, the Togo art of decapitation is alive and well. 12 people dead.

It appears that the protagonists of recent ritual murders think that by removing other people's body parts, they will improve their own social standing and feel better about themselves! Each to their own. Read more of the gruesomeness

Imagine my excitement on Wednesday when I was alerted to William Shatner's horrendous 1978 rendition of Rocket Man. And even more exciting was the discovery of the Family Guy parody by baby Stewie. And it was stellar tele to see both versions juxtaposed on the same screen.

I was going to share this gut-wrenching experience here today, and we would all have lived happily ever after, a little more enriched by the stomach wrenching embarrassment. Alas, alack, 48 hours later, it looks like 20th Century Fox have spoiled the parody party and had the footage withdrawn from Youtube. Sorry, folks.

If you would care to go to 20th Century Fox store and spend umpteen dollars on a Family Guy DVD, be my guest.

I would have thought that since Apple dragged the music corporations kicking and screaming into the 21st century, there was ample evidence that an expansive on-line presence was all good for media moguls. But apparently, video fat cats still don't get it. Perhaps when another 30 million video iPods have been sold they will wake up? Who knows.

Personally, I am going to express my disgust by not buying any Family Guy memorabilia plus I will stop watching Family Guy too. What do you say to that TCF? Does it feel profitable to be so exclusive and out of touch with how the internet works to the advantage of those who use it properly? And what is it with a company that is so damn good at what it does that it forgot to buy the rights to 21st Century Fox. Next dinosaur for the chopping block, please.

In the world of blogging, there is always the next big networking idea to stir it all up. First MyBlogLog, then BlogCatalog, Wavumi, and now, Blogrush. Never slow to jump on bandwagons, I am there, bottom right sidebar, with my cut-off Blog Rush widget. I will just lean back now and wait to become famous!

I jest, of course, because networking success and fame take time to pay dividends - unless you decide to kidnap the opposition and / or steal back your own material. Read the rest...

301 redirects, oooh, that sounds geeky. Indeed, it is, but 301's, as we call them in the game, are a part of blogmeistery that you need to be aware of.

The advert on TV from Gibbs, the career people, has a horrifying message, I think.


Wall St is smarting right now, but it was black too, back in February. The Chinese stock market fell 9% in a day and corporate America did as expected and panicked. China watched and smiled.

Garry Conn found a cool way to leverage some link love for the blog posts you Stumble. Look in my right side bar under "Recent posts" and you will see a link to the RSS feed on Ed's Stumble account. Clever, hey!

When you realise you have a voice for print, leave it to Odiogo to produce all your podcasts for you. Click and listen. It is quite something to hear what they can do with your RSS feed!

Roll up Sunday for another chance to visit MyBlogLog Sunday and win a mini review and a hat-tipping PR5 backlink.

The air will be full of 10 mini reviews of well known, unknown and little known blogs from the MyBlogLog network. Many online stars have been featured.

All you have to do to participate is be a MyBlogLog member, and if you visit here on Sunday morning and are caught in the side bar widget when I take a snapshot, you will be reviewed, like it or not! And if you leave a link to your best post of the week, regardless of being reviewed or not, I will Stumble the post too. (See the new sidebar widget that actually generates real link love for the Stumble posts!)

If you are reviewed, perhaps you might find time to link back to The Pisstakers in some simple way, just to keep the momentum going. See you later.

Bobbarama, a top notch humor blogger has awarded The Pisstakers with a Break Out Award. My first reaction was That reminds me of when I was called Pizza Face as a kid. Thanks for nothing, Bob.

On closer inspection, it is quite the boost to my spirits, and a great way to start a new week. Thanks a lot, Bob

Read all about the award and meet 5 lucky starlets who have been awarded the award too The one and only Lord Likely, Linda of Are We There yet? TechIT Easy, I Eat Snowman Poop and Wolf Bernz.

My oh my, it's MyBlogLog Sunday 24. None of us are getting any younger, and it is harder than ever to wake up on Sundays, but now I am up and at 'em, "YEEEEHAAH"

The good thing about blogging on Sundays is that instead of washing the clean car, mowing the manicured lawn or contemplating heaven in a noisy church, I can have fun on my own, promoting 10 MyBlogLog blogs that you may or may not be familiar with. Praise the blog world for such mercies.

In case you are thinking, "wtf is he blabbing on about", today's featured bloggers got snapped in the left sidebar widget and get a mini review for their troubles. With a juicy PR5, this will add to your link ranking, or at least consolidate your technorati rank if you already have a link from me.

Also, as it is Sunday, I will Stumble anyone who leaves a link in the comments to their best post of the week. You have till 6pm Eastern time.

Technorati troubles

Judging by the paucity of back links to MyBlogLog Sunday, I guess there has been trouble in Technorati land.

I just pinged the big T manually and they updated my account. Let's hope that evidence of past MBL Sunday reviews filters through Technorati to the reactions page of 200+ featured blogs.

In a perfect world, when bloggers check their Technorati account and see they have been promoted here, they should be motivated to mention the Pisstakers on their own blog in a good, bad or indifferent way? We shall see if this recent technoratical glitch is the source of a communication break down.

Meanwhile, would people be so kind as to join my Stumble network, currently populated by 2 friends. Maybe Stumble love may prove to be a more balanced indicator of the state of a site's health? We shall see

Permalink is permanent
All mini reviews from today will stay on the homepage (PR5) all week and are instantly added to the archives for a permanent back link to your mini review

MyBlogLog Sunday info links

Be back later.

A quick trip through some recent articles from Ed. There are more in the right sidebar, and even more if you hit Browse at the end of any article.

Just when you thought Firefox couldn't get any better, along comes the Campus version of the browser.



Scary to think that 2 million people downloaded the Zwinky drag n drop toolbar on day one of its release. Why is that scary?

A couple of years ago, Synaptics touchpad specialists lost 60% of their stock value within a few knee-jerk days. As Cramer would say - They know nothing, buy, buy, buy.

An extensive look at on-line shopping stores and carts. No need to spend a dime, just read! (Shopaholix)

A wooden boat rescue project too far?



You don't have to pour gas over yourself and set yourself on fire just to break up with me. (Fisher King)



If you have written about any of these topics, let me know so I can link to you.

It is a big day in Ed land so enjoy a blast from last September that you may not have seen before.

Just when slimmers thought it was safe to eat out at MacDonalds again...

“We did not expect these new salad entrées to be so loaded with fat and cholesterol,” says Brie Turner-McGrievy, M.S., R.D., the clinical research coordinator at PCRM.

Brie continues

Americans thinking about getting in shape and heading to the beach this summer should steer clear of the heavily hyped ‘salads’ that are smothered with chicken, cheese and other fatty foods.

It burgers belief that MacDonalds' style of salad can be fattier and more cholestrol laden than the famed Big Mac, but it says so here.

Is it not just more honest of the vendors from hell to say

"If you are fat, that's the way we like you, and our salads will keep you that way!"

Good luck to all concerned, especially the Chinese currently in MacDonalds' sights. Just like Mickie D's execs study stats, so the Chinese should record their waistlines now and again in 2017. Compare the growth. It should be stellar results for all concerned.

We already have a natty mobile version of the site, and now you can keep up even further with The Pisstakers, thanks to a mobile RSS feed. A really simple system from Feedm8 takes your RSS feed and formats it to fit a tiny, or not so tiny phone screen.

I know, sounds like just another way to drive up your phone bills, but at least, as you go bankrupt glued to your screen, you will have a smile on your face.

Meanwhile, if the bumf is to be believed, I will make millions from the ad revenue. So if you fall on hard times because of me, give me a call and I may be able to do a Ben Bernake and bale you out!

Give it a try. Thumbs up to Matt Jones and his slick Blogging Fingers for revealing this slick idea.

Enter your mobile phone #


Powered by FeedM8

A quick trip through articles from Ed in the last 48 hours. There are more in the right sidebar, and even more if you hit Browse at the end of any article.

Ed's brain and typing skills are too slow for a Mac Pro - or any other computer with two 2.66GHz Intel processors inside.


In the World of contests widgets and funny quotes, I recognise the pioneers who have installed or blogged about the assorted Pisstakers widgets on offer.


Fire everyone! According to the latest string of economic indicators, fewer workers are buying more stuff than ever. Maintain the trend and let your workforce go.

Postapoo clear up the true message of their controversial St George's Day campaign.



If you have written about any of these topics, let me know so I can link to you.

Oh yay, oh yay, Sunday is another chance to visit MyBlogLog Sunday and see the light in mini review heaven.

Ed writes 10 marginally witty mini reviews of well known, unknown and little known blogs from the MyBlogLog network. Many online stars have been featured and get a free PR5 link.

All you have to do is be a MyBlogLog member, and if you visit here on Sunday morning and are caught in the side bar widget when I take a snapshot, you will be reviewed, like it or not! And if you leave a link to your best post of the week, regardless of being reviewed or not, I will Stumble the post too.

And if you are a good marketer, you might find time to link back to The Pisstakers in some simple way. Not many PR5 sites are as willing as us to link to and promote bloggers of all ages.

MyBlogLog Sunday 23 has arrived seven days after the last one. This is proof positive of a weekly event promoting 10 blogs that you may or may not be familiar with.

I see some old regulars have returned, bienvenidos, and I wish bonne chance to the newbies, especially those with the provocative names. I feel some satirical sparks coming on!

Today's featured bloggers can enjoy a double whammy if you play your cards right. You get a mini review by default, but if you leave a link in the comments to your best post of the week before 6pm Eastern time, I will also Stumble you.

Stumble Upon
Talking of Stumbling... Originally I was hoping that the MyBlogLog Sunday feature would do something for my Technorati ranking, but you know how hopes go. I am still languishing! According to the internet popularity game that seems to have evolved, I am considerably less popular than loads of blogs with a fraction of the traffic I attract, go figure.

I am a reasonable person, so, until I get my head around that bizarre state of affairs, I will only raise one finger to Technorati, instead of the preferred 2. That will, of course, change when I come up with a novel game the technorati rankings strategy that adds content not just link lists to the internet.

Meanwhile, would people be so kind as to join my Stumble network, currently populated by 2 friends. Maybe Stumble love may prove to be a more balanced indicator of the state of a site's health? We shall see

Permalink is permanent
All mini reviews from today will stay on the homepage (PR5) all week and are instantly added to the archives, so you can get a permanent back link to your mini review when it appears later.

MyBlogLog Sunday info links

Be back later.

A quick reminder that tomorrow is another round of meaningful link love in the epic feature that we call MyBlogLog Sunday.

This will involve mini reviews numbers 221 to 230, and a mighty fine group you are set to join, if your site is reviewed. From the founder of MyBlogLog, Eric, to new kids with no friends in their community, many online stars have been featured and linked to.

All you have to do is be a MyBlogLog member, and if you visit my site and are caught in the side bar widget on Sunday morning when I take a snapshot, you will be reviewed, like it or not! And if you leave a link to your best post of the week, regardless of being reviewed or not, I will Stumble the post too. How much better can it get? Episode 25 will be good!

John is one of ten writers at Fuel My Blog, head of the Homeless Family, and the main man in Lapland. He will definitely deserve a break after Christmas.


Lord Likely appears to have more brothers than Andy Fanton has websites. The three hell-raisers, Lordy, Lancey, and Ludlow look set to have a great time in New James York city. Is it a big enough place?

You heard it here first, OS9 User has the inside scoop on the wiping out of Iran's military capabilty. Personally I prefer his less world-threatening story about a bulldozing cop hater, but that may just be me.

Linda was literally struck down, or glomped as we call it, in the excitement of an all day rock concert, whereas her daughter was not at all star struck in elite backstage company, and even plugged her Art.

Selaplana writes in a language not his own, but I don't subscribe to the Filipino point of view that because he isn't fluent with a pen he is stupid. His ideas on how to write better posts show he certainly ain't dumb.

After suffering a 4am start, typical crap English weather, Ryanair and unreasonable baggage limits, Claire deserved a good time people-watching ahead of take off to Italia. Stay tuned.

Templora has templates, tutorials, a forum, and articles, in fact it seems to have everything you need to get online and stay there. Brilliant looking site, very classy.

From Gretsky to Ron Jeremy, ball sports fan Falls interviewed the best of them while in broadcasting. He is a real comedy writer too, so I think I will take a step back and fall off the stage while you enjoy a class act.

Abigun abandoned his personal blog back in June, but has reemerged with Yakov at big guns.com. It is a site I would love to review except, it won't open at the moment. The enigma continues.

Behind the hardened shell lies an educational health blog with a heart. And when he can link gun stats to health matters and put a smile on the reader's face, you know the writer is doing a lot right..


As a tip to bloggers: if you call by next Sunday, feel free to leave a link to your best post of the week in the comments. That way, even if you don't end up being captured in the widget when I start blogging, at least you get to spread the word about your blog.

Don't be worried that The Pisstakers aren't in your genre, and somehow a link from this site to your site will be to the detriment of your PR. If you have a neat blog, I will mention it at some stage in the future in an article posted in an appropriate section of the Pisstakers.

Neither will you be seen to be associating with urine lovers!

So endeth the MyBlogLog Sunday posts for this week .

Come back next Sunday to see the next 10 featured bloggers from MyBlogLog.

A quick trip through articles from Ed in the last 48 hours. There are more in the right sidebar, and even more if you hit Browse at the end of any article.

Classic cars are rusting away in a yard in rural France. A no top Fiat, a dead Bentley, everything for discerning car fans.

A Small Orange have been powering The Pisstakers for a while now. They rock as far as I am concerned and here is why.

They say John Lennon was killed because of one throwaway modest comment about the Beatles being more popular than Jesus. See if you are at risk from assassination!

Celebrity hair takes a mild swipe at Keith Richard who took a swipe at Swedish journalists who accused him of being drunk on stage. Er, yeah!

I managed to prise Mrs Ed into the Bourne Ultimatum and judging by the bruise on my arm, even she enjoyed the highly improbable action-packed trip round the world of CIA dirty tricks.

If you have written about any of these topics, let me know so I can link to you.

MyBlogLog Sunday grew up last week and I celebrated the special landmark of 21 weeks with a bumper edition presented inside an accordion! Tomorrow is edition 22, an unspectacular number, unless you are a duck, so I will resort to the traditional format.

25 is a lucky number round here, and I may well be throwing some prizes and goodies into the Sunday mix in a month's time. Just so you know!

Talking numbers, thanks to the 8115 people who visited the site in August. It looks like over 200 have been visiting daily via the xfruits RSS feed too, so not a bad result for a holiday-riddled month and the visitor trends continue upwards.

5 are better than 1 There are rumors circulating that the Pisstakers are going international and Ed is seeking correspondents in (or somewhere sort of near to) London, Paris, Vancouver, or Sydney. It is mad. The paparazzi say he is offering a slice of the Pisstakers action to select writers who don't want the hassle of running a new blog, but do have the inclination to submit ONE measly article a week with local flavor and a bit of wit thrown in.

It sounds crazy to me, but if you feel like making the rumors come true and piggy-backing off the traffic here, let's talk.

All the 2's, 22. MyBlogLog Sunday comes to you in the middle of a holiday in the US. Don't feel bad about Ed sweating over a hot laptop while you sun yourself in the shadow of an above-ground pool, sipping on tooth-rotting sodas and gorging on charred barbecue food. It's all good.

Just to remind today's featured bloggers that if you leave a link in the comments to your best post of the week before 6pm Eastern time, I will also stumble the post. (One more MyBloglog Sunday bonus to drool over .)

Permalink is permanent
All mini reviews from today will stay on the homepage (PR5) all week and are instantly added to the archives, so you can get a permanent back link to your mini review when it appears later.

MyBlogLog Sunday info links

Be back later.

I am not one for getting in ruts - unless there is a lot of money to be made - so I have launched a celebration MyBlogLog Sunday special subsite. Uh? Exactly!

The 10 lucky bloggers on this first auspicious landmark day, get to have a go on an accordion! Check it out, brothers and sisters and tap those fingers all over the headings.

And don't forget, regardless of whether you are in the screenshot or not, today is the day to leave a comment with a link to your best post of the week. Visitors will read the comments, and I will stumble the links too.