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Hey everyone, today I decided that Piksels.com is going to be offering 2 months of free advertising (125×125 image ads) for a maximum of 3 websites.

If you’ve got an interesting website which you want me to advertise, just leave a comment below (make sure to fill in your email and http address so I can get back to you) and I will take a look at it.

After looking through everyone’s websites, I’ll pick out my 3 favourites and set up the ads.

The advertisements will be placed in the sidebar, replacing the “Network” section.
The ads will be images (jpg or animated gif) sized 125×125

(I’ll make my choice by August 13th)

Currently piksels.com getting about 1000-1500 uniques per day, and now that I am finding some more time to write again it is steadily increasing.

And if I some sites really are interesting I’ll mention them in my next post

Specifics:

• No illegal / adult / offensive content
• Preferably websites related to technology / web / etc…
• Direct link only (no forwarding)
• The advertisement will be hosted on my server
• The advertisement may be animated, but must not be annoying =)
• The advertisement must be visually appealing
• I retain the right to remove the advertisement

That’s it, hope you all had a good weekend =)

-joel

Today while browsing the ever so beautiful interwebs, I came across something interesting about Shakespeare. Turns out that our second favourite William (after the one and only William Gates of course) invented over 1700 of the words we use commonly use, by simply turning nouns into verbs, adjectives into verbs, and so forth..

Here is a very small list of words he invented:

1. Accused
2. Addiction
3. Advertising
4. Amazement
5. Arouse
6. Assassination
7. Bandit
8. Bedroom
9. Beached
10. Blanket
11. Bump
12. Cater
13. Champion
14. Countless
15. Epileptic
16. Fixture
17. Flawed
18. Generous
19. Hint
20. Lonely
21. Mimic
22. Negotiate
23. Obscene
24. Premeditated
25. Rant
26. Summit
27. Torture
28. Varied
29. Worthless
30. Zany

Well the list goes on, and you can read more about it here, or phrases he invented here. It is not surprising that he has had so much influence on the English language, as he is arguably the greatest playwright ever. But it is remarkable how he never felt confined to using only ‘true’ lexicon.

It is disappointing that we are taught that there is a word for everything, because it hampers our imagination to develop, to feel, to express, anything which has not been defined before. And sometimes we convince ourselves that if there is no word for it, then it cannot exist.

I hope we all can take an example from Shakespeare, and dare to break the structured guidelines.

Right now everything is pretty much working. Fixed the Feedburner issues, theme is working properly, and now I am ready to move the blog to the correct server address. Hopefully the RSS feeds will work correctly with the move, and if not I will make sure to fix it promptly.