Either I have become a sceptical old fart before I turn 30, or he is on the scam. Any bets?

It’s uber professional, I even have a stylish lanyard and pass to get in and out! I can’t fault it though, plenty of space and it’s quiet, so productivity is definitely up. I’m relishing the extra work too!

• Facebook (5 page feeds)
• Flickr (5 feeds)
• Instagram (5 feeds)
• LinkedIn (1 profiles status updates, subject to OAuth being installed on the server)
• RSS (5 feeds)
• Twitter (5 users feeds)
• Vimeo (5 profile feeds)
• WordPress (Choose your categories from your blog)
• YouTube (5 playlists)

You can see the block in use here on my blog, where it will be staying. I can honestly say that this has been quite a tough one, but it was well worth the effort. I’m hoping it will be up on Headway Extend soon but in the meantime, you can buy a copy right here by going to my online shop.

Nah, no-one went for that… Did they?

I have made the plunge and purchased a New iPad. It’s not called the iPad 3 you see, they wanted to more clever than that, but failed in my humble opinion.

What they don’t seem to have failed on is this amazing piece of kit. It smaller and lighter than my old iPad 1, the screen truly is better than my eyes can process and this keyboard isn’t a problem at all speed wise.

I’m genuinely impressed with the improvements made.

So this is my first blog from the new iPad, it’s hopefully no more riddled with spelling, punctuation and grammar issues than anything from my iMac, and I quite enjoyed typing it direct onto the screen. I might even dictate the next one!

So, a perfect moment to be quick off the mark eh, do something James Bondesque, make myself look cool on street view? Probably, but it’s Saturday and I’m taking my gorgeous wife to watch Batman TDKR then for Mexican food tonight and was hurrying to get the girls gone. So, instead of doing something cool, I remained half bent over into the boot of the car, my buttocks pointed squarely at the camera and craned my head around, gawking at the car with a wide open mouth. A very sexy image to none, I’m thinking.

So that’s it, when they do the next update, I will be able to look proudly at my home, however, I will have to look past a blurred version of my face appearing around the side of my ample backside, whilst bent precariously into the boot of the car and holding a bag full of toy story figures. I feel blessed!

What does distinguish this act in my life, is that despite having been capable for quite some time, I have never let my stubble get beyond 3 days growth. I expect the firm grounding in the art of soldiering as a much younger man had something to do with it, however, despite the fairly serious reservations of my now five years old eldest daughter Grace, who is quite firm in her detestation for the current state of my face, I am now on day 9 without a proper shave.

I would not make the claim to be the worlds richest man when it comes to body hair, so I was expecting the growth to take a little longer, however, so far I am fairly pleased with the results. Having been clean shaven since a parade ground ‘bollocking’ when I was 16, this is quite an experience, and I have to say… I am fascinated and very slightly obsessed with it.

Here’s to the continuation of both of beard growth, and the quiet life that allows me to spend time considering such inane pursuits.

It was an interesting project, I have used aMember in the past, and to be honest, found it over filled with options. Don’t get me wrong, integrating it was extremely simple, I just would never use 90% of the great features for my simple needs. After a good few hours of research I stumbled across a FREE solution!!!! Yep, free, it’s a plugin called ‘s2member’, there is a pro version that does much more and probably integrates far easier, but hey… I’m a coder!

I wrote a two widget plugin that integrates s2member, gravity forms and the gravity forms user registration add-on, thanks to above average developer documentation for s2member, it wasn’t the programming that was tough, the difficulty was getting the user low right and being able to pass details around between different items in a secure way. Anyway, the overall functionality is quite nice, and very secure. Lets hope it gets a couple of sales and some positive feedback eh!