I’d like to welcome visitors coming from The University Kid/Blog Premiere and all the other sites that are coming here because of The Blog Premiere Extravaganza, to which I’ve pledged to donate a completely custom WordPress theme to the second prize winner.
If you want to see what sort of theme you will be getting if you win the 2nd prize, you should take a look at my other blog PhotoshopStar, or view my simple work page.
I’m happy to work on the theme as long as it takes until the winner is happy, but I would prefer if we could collaborate over MSN rather than by email!
Just letting y’all know that PhotoshopStar is having it’s second birthday, and to celebrate there’s $700+ worth of gifts to be given away 
All you have to do is leave a comment and/or link back to the post and the sponsors, easy as that!
Thanks to our sponsors:
- Blog Perfume and WebAppers (Blubs theme)
- PSD2HTML.com (free coding)
- The University Kid (one-year dA subscription)
- Daily Blog Tips (e-books)
- India Photoblog (GameWallpapers subscription)
- OIOpublisher (CGWallpapers subscription)
- Prizes that aren’t accounted for are donated by PhotoshopStar
I think the previous, much darker theme that I was using was getting a little out of date, so I’ve changed over to Kubrick 2. I’ve been looking for quite a while for a nice, clean theme with a lot of whitespace, and I think this one fits the description best.
One thing I can say about this theme is it is extensively customizable!
If you need a very customizable, pretty theme, check it out for yourselves.
So the CAPTCHAs these days are really trying to test the intelligence of us regular folk, particularly the RapidShare ones. You see, they want us to pick out the letters that have cats on them, but I got it wrong the first time, so the second time around I actually entered the number with a cat on it as well!
And yep, entering the number as well as the letters worked.
I wasn’t too thrilled with the complexity of it, to be honest!
I don’t mean to brag here (although as of late, everyone has so many subscribers, this is hardly a feat), but I have 1337 subscribers on PhotoshopStar 
For those of you that don’t know what 1337 means, check it out on Urban Dictionary.
Note: I’ve been an avid Team Fortress 2 player for about 6 months now. I have a fun clan that two of my brothers and I play online under: PS (Poker Strategies).
Down to business …
Any user of Steam will know that a Team Fortress 2 update as released recently. I want to ask though, who in their right mind thought it was a good idea releasing a batch of like 50 achievements for just one class? I think it would have been a better idea if they had released the achievements for 5 classes at the same time, as now there are more medics than other players.
6 medics and 5 other players does not work!
It seems taking a screenshot of the classes page didn’t work, so I can’t show you my team of 11 people and 6 medics.
Oh well! I normally play as the medic (most healed: 8800) but I’m going to wait until the medic has died down again before I start garnering the achievements.
/rant
I’ve been notified by a couple of people that a Google PR update is happening/has happened - and this time I’m in the good 
A few updates ago my website PhotoshopStar went down from 5 to 4 and stayed like that, but now it’s back up to 5! Must be those few naughty links I removed *cough*
My personal blog is also up to a PR4. Everyone will tell you that pagerank isn’t important in the least unless you’re selling links, which it isn’t really, but it’s still nice to know we’re being treated alright (when our PR goes up, anyway).
ProBlogger has reminded us that we need to forget about PR and continue building better blogs Which is true of course. It’s still nice to see that green bar in the middle there.
Some new Dark Knight posters were just released. I find it via /Film, who found it via Omelete.
I love quite a few of the new Dark Knight posters, I can’t wait ’til I can get them on eBay!
OK, so my pal’s website (WebAppers) has recently lost 2000 RSS readers, so he was a little concerned about that, while I’ve experienced a similar loss of readers - 200 out of 1300, if it weren’t a glitch with FeedBurner I would feel pretty bad about this
It seems to be a problem with picking up the Netvibes subscribers, as Ray and I have both found out (a few days ago I had 80 subscribers with Netvibes).
I certainly don’t have it so bad though, still having 1100 subscribers on PhotoshopStar.
I’ve also broken a record here, I have an average of 15 subscribers on this here little blog Keep it comin’.
OK, so some smart people have gotten together and come up with something called RSS awareness day. On May 1st we’re (bloggers) all meant to talk about RSS and the uses for it, how it makes our online lives much easier!
If you don’t know what RSS is, you should definitely check out the website, it explains RSS very simply and effectively.
Tell someone about RSS on May 1st.