incubus: random stuff. A collection of stuff by me and links to elsewhereness

A little introduction

Thanks for stopping by. This used to be a place where i learnt how to do random things. Then it was a place where I kept random stuff. Then it became a temple of learning to do random things while storing random stuff. Then it stopped being anything at all. Now it is back! "Hurrah!" i hear little unicorns, deer, freaks of nature, and generally everyone but emos shout. Now this is a place for me to build random things anew, rebuild random things old & post generally anything random i really feel like posting. Enjoy! If you don't, at least leave with an overwhelming feeling of cynicism matched only by that of that old man you see constantly moaning about the state of life, the universe and everything in town centres across our lands during those lazy summer thursday afternoons. Ah well, while you're here, why not read a little about me & this site? Want something else? How about my Technorati profile, my Digg, my stumpleupon, my flickr, or my virb? When I get chance, I'll actually update each of them with some good stuffs. And before you say anything, this site is not named after the band incubus. It's named after the incubus.

new stuff for incubus: random stuff

just added:

comments system
social bookmarking
dynamic rss feed
dynamic google sitemap
dynamic yahoo url list sitemap
SEO fixes to navigation links
"Most Recent" menu
plenty of other stuff fixed in the background...

Groovy. thanks to Rajender Singh for his obsocialbookmarker plugin for wordpress which my own social bookmark stuff is based on. As an added bonus, I'm not using nofollow on the comments yet, so if you want an easy backlink, and a little extra search engine traffic please post some nice comments. Of course, offensive nasty ones will be removed, as well as obvious spam. I'll also be checking to see if you've linked to me too. So please do!

Version 6.5

I'm so chuffed with it, i skipped version 6.2, 6.3 and 6.4! Almost complete design overhaul but in keeping with the previous skin's colour scheme and style. Added a nice sidebar for extra menus, making things easier to maintain and easier for people to find stuff, things and whatever else there is. Bootiful.

pdincubus at virb°

i mentioned before about virb.com. I like their idea for a better online profile myspace type place. Soon there's a new version of the site coming. Bonus. Anyways, hop on over to my profile and you will notice it looks very similar to the design of this site. fookin' amazing that. It's not completed yet as the main content still looks a bit too standard, but I'll fix that too when i get some spare time. Once you set up your account, if you know a little XHTML and CSS you can completely redesign and re-jig the entire profile top to bottom, have anything anywhere on the page. Brilliant. You can have a truly unique profile. I think I might put together a few basic and maybe a couple or more impressive virb profile layouts and stick them on here for people to use. I'm nice like that you see. updates to come when i get chance. Just to get you started on your journey into customisation, here's some free virb layouts for you. I'll make some more when i get chance. Some fancy ones too. Rock on.

backlinks

I'm finding getting quality backlinks is actually a very tough task. I find sites that have thousands of backlinks sometimes don't even have good content. I've spent a lot of time on this site, trying to make sure that it's got plenty of original content, useful stuff and things of a resource type nature. You know, the kind of stuff I like to visit other people's sites for. SO why is getting good backlinks such a problem? I've noticed that there's a trend called blogtipping where you link to two or three people's blogs, do a little write up about the good points and a tip to improve it. An easy way to be useful and provide a backlink to someone i guess. But my site isn't a blog, it isn't really a business, and it isn't really doing anything except providing a bit of free info & displaying some of the stuff I've written & produced. I think it would be good for me to start compiling a list of places for quality backlinks. Well, here is the list so far. Please, anybody, let me know if you find any other search engine friendly directories or sites which you can list on.

Top tens & other various lists of useful stuff

To start my adventures in telling others how to do things they probably already know how, here's a list of my favourite lists of favourites.

Keywords & Page Descriptions Hassles

Apparently "and" & "the" are the two most important words on my site according to one online tool. But using another, I find that "stuff" & "random" are most common. Now, i'm sure as shit that nobody is ever going to find this site by typing the first two keywords into google. In fact, in recent times I've had some pretty random search terms bring me up. Not in an "I've been sick" kind of way. A few of my recent favourites are:

what happened in the year 1860
jan graba
caveman timeline
let me give you the subject of the day
a timeline of time
when was the discus invented
3000 bc - 1000bc zulu timeline

I'm sure there are many more I've not yet come across, so to speak, but it's amazing how one or two particular pages picks up more than anything else for search engines. I guess they have a hell of a lot of keywords that I just never realised. After all, I didn't exactly write those two pages for search engines, I wrote them to read. Fair play to timeline of time, & of course, the legendary university ramblings

Version 6

Ok, I've left my site alone for far too long, & thought I would have to start updating it sooner or later. I've completely redesigned it, ground up, new templates, new code, new features, new just about everything really. I've been on a testing mission whereby I'm trying to make incubus as accessible & standards compliant-ish as possible (within reason of course!), so this site has once again become my playground. Hopefully plenty more updates to come soon! v5 of 1ncu8u5 can be found over at v5.1ncu8u5.co.uk. I've spent a hell of a lot of time working on v6 over the last couple of months - and have improved it in just about every area. along with giving up on the fact that nobody is going to ever remember the name 1ncu8u5, I've actually attempted to write my content properly too. Well, kinda.

On ilkley moor bar t'at!

Web Standards

Visit my web standards site, ~~where hopefully one day soon I will update it to make it a bit more current, add some new stuff & fix all the stuff I never actually got around to doing int' first place.~~ I've updated at last, started fixing all XHTML & even some CSS errors. I will even start (hopefully) adding new content to it - like i first intended. It began as a mini-site to go with my University Dissertation, but i've kept is just in case. There might be handy stuff, it might be total bollocks.

Chronicles & Anti-quality

Newly updated right about here. ~~Sign up, have a rant, go to bed feeling a little better. Antiquality~~. Not quite working, as in totally broken.

Dear nobody, we wrote you a letter

In the light of recent events we have decided that you are a complete arse.

A nice man came to our village today & offered to plumb in some electricity for us. He said it will only last a while but the burns will heal. The children might be permanently scarred.

Haparently eiiiiiiii, der is deese fings dey call playnes or somet & they hactuley make you fly.

You could hav done wiv somet like vat.

We play you see. For your pleasure

We recorded some songs. Look, some of them were a first attempt. Some a second. Some a third. But we're getting there. :0)

From our First Jam:

From our Second Jam:

Enjoy. Or at least try. Please. Think of the children. Not like that. You dirty pervert.

well i erm yeah hm.

i fell out of my bed into the sky below which was very cold considering it had jus been heated up. i wandered into a back room via a front door and stood on a seat above me. a lady at the entrance took my coat as i left & put it on a stand for me to get when i returned to leave later that day.

i was unsure of her logic but she assured me all calculations had been done prior to mathematics being invented so i could only take her word for it as she had no proof & nowhere to live.

i pondered momentarily on the existence of time, space & all things within it but instead gave consideration to the headache which had been welling in my feet for some time & took off to live elsewhere somewhere anywhere really as long as the sun smiles & the people shine.

it was a nice holiday after all even though it was last minute. the ones before were very good & this last minute was better than any previous last minutes although it was entirely possible that it was all false advertising.

surely if the last time was last time & this time was also the last time then surely last last time was the penultimate time & this was the last time but what if there were more last times what would the next one be?

he listened to the newspaper the entire way there & when he arrived he greeted a lost man standing at the exit to which he entered.

he walked down some stairs to a room at the top & hung his coat which he had left at a show the night before with a woman who said i could pick it up when i returned to leave again later that day.

that was all behind me now as i turned to face a man looking away from me. he looked at me sternly as i stared at the back of his head.

wiiiiiiiiiiith... karate i'll kick yer arse.

ok, so this is my rendition of "karate" by tenacious d

Guide to Masturbation - i wish i had written this

heheheh~~, & http://members.fortunecity.com/tms3/young.html - this is supposed to help blokes with t'old pud pulling is it? :0) think not~~.~~also glad i'm not a http://www.dulac.ca/cookdocs/mast.html mormon~~. Anyone who dislikes the word masturbation, & is not in a situation to use standard synonyms like wank or toss might want to have a quick read of this. "bugger my hand" i think is definitely in my top three on this list :0). Just in case you're still struggling with this subject,here's some help :0)

now if you'll excuse me, i'm off to be my own best friend....

Once, i knew a monkey

his name was brian, & he was

blind
Deaf
Mute
Paraplaegic
Psycho
Legless
One armed
ambidextrous
One fingered
bad tempered
With a twitch

argh! scary religious types!

some people really do scare me - especially religious fanatics.

I read the news today

oh boy. read my paper. Dave enjoyed it anyway.

he was a monkey & he could dance

don't believe me? here he is.

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