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As the more astute of you will have noticed, hopkins81 has had a facelift. I thought about making a few minor alterations to the old design, but thought sod it and decided to do something completely different. This was thanks mainly to thanks to a grand fellow by the name of MX4. It certainly is quite a fresh design and here at hopkins81 we like to give the reader the illusion that their opinion matters, so would love to hear your thoughts.

I have written a plugin for Wordpress that allows you to display a random quote-of-the-day on your site. There does already appear to be a few quote-like plugins available but they all required you to manually create or add the quotations yourself. My plugin has a clear advantage in that it is self-contained. It pulls quotes from an RSS feed supplied by quotationspage.com.

In my opinion, the standards of quotes you get from this site are of a very high quality. Sometimes funny, sometimes political, sometimes philosophical but always witty! The plugin, once installed will select quotes at random from a possible twelve, which are updated once every twenty-four hours. Read the rest of this entry »

July 8th, it seems like so long ago now. Twas the date we set sail for the Canary Islands. Many people had said they would be coming with us, but in the end, it was survival of the fittest and six of us managed to make it. I have all but settled back into the daily drudgery, but thankfully, we have a few photos taken with some disposable cameras, to remind of us of a few quality nights out.

There are a few interesting stories I could tell but unfortunately we decided that it be best to not make those who wussed out feel too disappointed, so we introduced

Law-o-the-Stag

A pact that prevents us from going into detail about any event that occurred. We (I) have decided that it is acceptable to let everyone see the pics though! What happened on the island stays on the island. Read the rest of this entry »