Year In Review Ditty

Another year over, another one starts, is there no end to it?
Perhaps one day, but lets make hay before the ozone depletes!
‘Tis was a good year though, with an heir turning one and a wedding to boot.
Newly anointed parents have done more than their fair share.

Now with Ma and Pa Kettle hankering for a bakers dozen across the lot,
And two other sons itchin for a courtin and a hitchin,
There’ll be no rest at Malfunction Junction until the deeds done.
Yes, by hook or by crook we’ll settle for no less.

Base Images ℅ PhotoXpress

For the last twelve months we’ve been going hammer and tongs,
Thankfully post ankle-biters leaving home renos are completed.
Friends made on the way will always be remembered,
As long as meat pies are left off the daily menu for another twelve months.

Did you have a good year? Will it be remembered above all others?
What were the highlights? What were the lowlights?
As we celebrated Christmas may we all welcome the New Year in.
May peace and happiness follow us until the end of our days.

New Years Eve Events & Specials:
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Christmas Goodies Galore

Wishing a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to my extended family, friends and acquaintances on the blogosphere.

To say a big thank you to each and everyone of you I’ve done a deal with Santa. Yes, Santa and yes, I still believe ! Below you will find Christmas presents that I endorse and trust completely, so you can take one or as many as you would like. Now, if it was me I'd take the lot !

Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year !

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Images ℅ PhotoXpress & Public Domain Image

Keep safe and to those that are ill, I wish you a speedy recovery.

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LinkWithin Widget Alternative – Howzat: Part II

This article is a follow on from LinkWithin Widget Alternative - Howzat, my three column three story version of the popular related posts with thumbnails widget from LinkWithin.

Here I explain how to make a four column version of the Howzat widget. Howzat is still highly customisable, even allowing you to place it wherever you want, use whatever pictures you want or if you want, leave it out altogether as I have done in my Blogroll post.

Four column Howzat widget screenshot

Like LinkWithin, Howzat allows you to click on a thumbnail to view a related post, but has the added benefit of being visible in Feedburner, Atom and RSS feeds - In this case use the icon at the bottom of each column.

Howzat however, does not automatically add related posts with thumbnails to every post. You have to insert the Howzat code into every post.

Now for the code: Yes, it does look like a lot of gobbledygook. Not to worry though. Just copy and paste the code below straight into the “Edit HTML” section of your blog post, or, into the source section when using Windows Live Writer.

<table style="margin: 0px auto" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" height="210"><tbody> <tr> <td bgcolor="#f0f0e9" colspan="4"> <div align="left"><strong>You might also like:</strong></div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="cursor: pointer" onmouseover="this.bgColor=&#39;#E3E4FA&#39;" onmouseout="this.bgColor=&#39;#f0f0e9&#39;" onclick="window.location.href=&#39;http://stvincentsdarlinghurstmalenurses.blogspot.com/2010/06/linkwithin-widget-alternative-howzat.html&#39;" bgcolor="#f0f0e9" valign="top" width="120" align="center"><img style="margin: 5px auto; display: block; float: none" title="Article link" border="0" alt="Article link" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_tpq91pcqIw8/TLSB7mPohpI/AAAAAAAAJZY/LuPLsc3cdKQ/howzat.jpg" width="100" height="100" /> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100"><tbody> <tr> <td valign="top" width="100"> <div align="left">LinkWithin Alternative</div> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> </td> <td style="cursor: pointer" onmouseover="this.bgColor=&#39;#E3E4FA&#39;" onmouseout="this.bgColor=&#39;#f0f0e9&#39;" onclick="window.location.href=&#39;http://stvincentsdarlinghurstmalenurses.blogspot.com/2010/07/open-source-social-networking-widget.html&#39;" bgcolor="#f0f0e9" valign="top" width="120" align="center"><img style="margin: 5px auto; display: block; float: none" title="Article link" border="0" alt="Article link" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_tpq91pcqIw8/TQd8IARY8MI/AAAAAAAAJ5g/b3q3tgQLFYc/Social_Networking_Widget.jpg" width="100" height="100" /> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100"><tbody> <tr> <td valign="top" width="100"> <div align="left">Open Source Social Networking Widget</div> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> </td> <td style="cursor: pointer" onmouseover="this.bgColor=&#39;#E3E4FA&#39;" onmouseout="this.bgColor=&#39;#f0f0e9&#39;" onclick="window.location.href=&#39;http://stvincentsdarlinghurstmalenurses.blogspot.com/2010/03/flushed-with-success.html&#39;" bgcolor="#f0f0e9" valign="top" width="120" align="center"><img style="margin: 5px auto; display: block; float: none" title="Article link" border="0" alt="Article link" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_tpq91pcqIw8/TQd-av5qIgI/AAAAAAAAJ50/yBZVeZScaWc/flushed.jpg" width="100" height="100" /> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100"><tbody> <tr> <td valign="top" width="100"> <div align="left">Flushed with success - Change Image on Mouseover</div> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> </td> <td style="cursor: pointer" onmouseover="this.bgColor=&#39;#E3E4FA&#39;" onmouseout="this.bgColor=&#39;#f0f0e9&#39;" onclick="window.location.href=&#39;http://stvincentsdarlinghurstmalenurses.blogspot.com/2010/10/random-rotating-header-images.html&#39;" bgcolor="#f0f0e9" valign="top" width="120" align="center"><img style="margin: 5px auto; display: block; float: none" title="Article link" border="0" alt="Article link" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_tpq91pcqIw8/TQeAgSKI3wI/AAAAAAAAJ6I/781Gqrm92Rs/random.jpg" width="100" height="100" /> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100"><tbody> <tr> <td valign="top" width="100"> <div align="left">Random Rotating Header Images</div> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#f0f0e9" height="30" valign="top" width="120" align="center"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody> <tr> <td bgcolor="#f0f0e9" height="15" valign="top" width="15"><a href="http://stvincentsdarlinghurstmalenurses.blogspot.com/2010/06/linkwithin-widget-alternative-howzat.html"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; margin: 0px auto; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="Atom/RSS Readers click here to read this post" alt="Atom/RSS" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_tpq91pcqIw8/TBEbKM2nmgI/AAAAAAAAHsk/Od3VItQAIB4/readers.jpg" width="15" height="15" /></a> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> </td> <td bgcolor="#f0f0e9" valign="top" width="120" align="center"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody> <tr> <td bgcolor="#f0f0e9" height="15" valign="top" width="15"><a href="http://stvincentsdarlinghurstmalenurses.blogspot.com/2010/07/open-source-social-networking-widget.html"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; margin: 0px auto; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="Atom/RSS Readers click here to read this post" alt="Atom/RSS" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_tpq91pcqIw8/TBEbKM2nmgI/AAAAAAAAHsk/Od3VItQAIB4/readers.jpg" width="15" height="15" /></a></td> </tr> </tbody></table> </td> <td bgcolor="#f0f0e9" valign="top" width="120" align="center"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody> <tr> <td bgcolor="#f0f0e9" height="15" valign="top" width="15"><a href="http://stvincentsdarlinghurstmalenurses.blogspot.com/2010/03/flushed-with-success.html"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; margin: 0px auto; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="Atom/RSS Readers click here to read this post" alt="Atom/RSS" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_tpq91pcqIw8/TBEbKM2nmgI/AAAAAAAAHsk/Od3VItQAIB4/readers.jpg" width="15" height="15" /></a></td> </tr> </tbody></table> </td> <td bgcolor="#f0f0e9" valign="top" width="120" align="center"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody> <tr> <td bgcolor="#f0f0e9" height="15" valign="top" width="15"><a href="http://stvincentsdarlinghurstmalenurses.blogspot.com/2010/10/random-rotating-header-images.html"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; margin: 0px auto; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="Atom/RSS Readers click here to read this post" alt="Atom/RSS" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_tpq91pcqIw8/TBEbKM2nmgI/AAAAAAAAHsk/Od3VItQAIB4/readers.jpg" width="15" height="15" /></a></td> </tr> </tbody></table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#f0f0e9" colspan="4"> <div align="right"><a style="text-decoration: none" href="http://stvincentsdarlinghurstmalenurses.blogspot.com/2010/06/linkwithin-widget-alternative-howzat.html"><font color="#c0c0c0">Howzat</font></a></div> </td> </tr> </tbody></table>

Recommendations:

1. Code in red must be changed to your related post http address.
2. Code in green must be changed to your image http address.
3. Code in blue must be changed to your post title.
4. Code in purple must be changed to an icon hosted by your site.
5. Change background colour code matching - #f0f0e9 – to suit yours.
6. If editing, do so only in “Edit HTML” mode – Blogger Blogs.
7. Make thumbnail images about 2500 bytes and 100 x 100 pixels.
8. Try this in your test blog first.
9. If using the code, retain the credit.

If you have any questions I will endeavour to answer them the best I can. Well, that’s about it, enjoy.

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Blogroll & Blog Lists

The 31 May '08 marked the first anniversary of my blog. It’s now 2011 and a lot has happened since the conception of my blog so I thought it best to update my blogroll once again. As for my blog lists they are found at the bottom of this post.

This is my way of showing the ones below my gratitude. To put it simply, I couldn't have done it without you, so thank you. If I have missed anyone, I apologise.

Anna	Moonshadow	Peter	Simon
Max	Janeywan	Jayne	Mayet
Lynda	Jim	Trauma Diva	Paul
Chessnoid	Jazmin	Mike	Taeran

Click on any of the images above to visit their site

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