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New Enhanced Credit Links for Sites on Our Links Page [TFTS Link Love]

Andrew Tingle — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 01:45:01 +0000

Whilst we like to keep site notices to an absolute minimum, we felt it necessary to just offer a quick head’s up for those sites either already featured on our (newly updated and revised) links page or who are on topic and would like to be featured, as we are now implementing a new enhanced crediting system for sites who make our (ever so) discerning links list.

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TFTS Welcomes Two New Members to the Writing Team [Gary Sims & Piyush Bakshi]

Andrew Tingle — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 11:40:35 +0000

I am personally overjoyed to welcome two new staff members to TFTS with both Gary Sims and Piyush Bakshi joining our writing team today, both of whom are not only accomplished and proven writers in their own right but both of whom are bringing with them a great deal of enthusiasm for all things gadget and technology related.

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Get Active in Our New TFTS Forums – Win $250 (Talk About Incentives…)

Andrew Tingle — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 11:44:42 +0000

As you may be aware, TFTS has just opened its brand new forums and, as with any new forum, getting the ball rolling is an initial hurdle so we thought ‘how can we really act to get the ball rolling?’ and the answer is, let’s face it, in these time of worldwide economic doom, gloom and despondency, cold hard cash – to the tune of $250.

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New TFTS Forums Now Live – We Look Forward To Meeting You

Andrew Tingle — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 10:51:27 +0000

We are pleased to announce that, in a bid to engage with you more and to offer a means of free interchange, we have just opened our new TFTS Forums where you can talk about gadgets and technology, write your own mini reviews (which could appear on the site with full credits – therefore gaining you exposure to our 250K+ readers per month), tip us on gadget related news, offer feedback concerning the site and its development, tip us on your gadget sites (so we can come visit) and generally hook up with us and other geeks and gadget lovers.

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New Logo, Blown CPU, Dead Computer [Hence My Disappearance]

Andrew Tingle — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:48:58 +0000

Life eh? Just when, yesterday afternoon, I’d managed to pop the new TFTS logo onto the site and whilst still in my FTP program sorting out a little code my computer’s CPU decided to give up the ghost with somewhat of a pop leaving me with no computer and no access to the net (and therefore the site) and a number of site formatting issues due to some PHP that corrupted.

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TFTS Welcomes A New Staff Writer To The Team [TFTS Site News]

Andrew Tingle — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 14:14:07 +0000

As regular readers will know, we have been searching high and low for additional writers for TFTS for some time now and, whilst we’ve had a fair few applications, we have been holding out for writers who, we feel, will bring a genuine (almost tangible) passion and enthusiasm for all things geeky as well as a writing style that will compliment the site beautifully and we are therefore overjoyed to announce that we have now secured our first staff writer who will start writing for us from Monday.

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TFTS Taking a Week’s Break – Recharging Our Batteries

Andrew Tingle — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:23:26 +0000

Just a quick note to advise that, as I will be off sunning myself in warmer climes and consuming copious amounts of beer/cocktails/spirits for a week on a well deserved break, there will be no updates on TFTS for the next few days. In the meantime, however, please do feel free to check out the contents of our primary categories as listed in the far right sidebar and, if you happen exhaust the 1,800+ posts on offer here, perhaps you might like to check out our links page which offers a series of sites that we think particularly highly of (all of which are very much worth a visit).

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TFTS Gets A Fresh New Look [TFTS V3 At Your Service]

Andrew Tingle — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 22:45:29 +0000

Its been a while in the making and its taken a non-stop 48 hour stint – hence no posts during this period – to tweak it to match our initial ‘vision’, but at last the new look is now live and (touching wood) we appear to have most the creases sorted out apart from our 404 page which needs some work (the blissful irony of this page escaping our attention, considering our actual web address, is not escaping us, by the way).

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TFTS Posting On Hold As We Take A Long Overdue Holiday

Andrew Tingle — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 16:40:28 +0000

Having worked every day pretty much without exception for as long as we can remember, except for when we experienced a family loss, the time has come for me to recharge my somewhat depleted batteries so TFTS will be taking a two week break as the wife and I jet off to Perth, Australia to look around what we hope one day will prove to be our home.

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Updated – Notice of Forthcoming Downtime This Weekend Due To Server Upgrade [Completed]

Andrew Tingle — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 03:29:01 +0000

Some of you may have noticed that we have experienced a few ‘blips’ of late due to traffic surges bringing our server to its knees so, in order to resolve these issues, we are upgrading to a new quad core dedicated server which will, unfortunately, result in some downtime as the move is completed.

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TFTS Looking For Writers – Come And Join Us, And Get Paid

Andrew Tingle — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 02:35:55 +0000

If you enjoy writing, have a keen eye concerning gadgets and can write engaging prose we would very much like to hear from you as we are now looking to get a few additional writers on board to help us drive the site onwards and upwards by offering more content to our escalating readership.

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TFTS Surpasses Magic 1,000,000 Unique Visitors Mark

Andrew Tingle — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:02:23 +0000

We’re genuinely thrilled to announce that TFTS has passed the somehow rather meaningful 1,000,000 unique visitor mark today (courtesy of a visitor from Jackson, Mississippi) within 18 months of featuring our very first post – an occasion that we couldn’t possibly let pass without a brief acknowledgement and the cracking open of a few beers this end.

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TFTS Wishes You a Very Merry and Peaceful Christmas

Andrew Tingle — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 13:42:31 +0000

Whilst it’s our intention to continue posting through the festive season as best we can – allowing for periods of apparent lack of activity due to excessive alcohol consumption and the traditional bout of food poisoning occasioned by my wife’s continued attempts to craft a Christmas dinner that doesn’t result in us all having to visit our local casualty unit to get our stomachs pumped (think yourself lucky that you’re not invited) – we would like to take this opportunity to wish you all, wherever you may be in the world, a very merry and, above all, a very peaceful Christmas.

Where’s The Missing Post – Or How Not To Get Your Product Featured on TFTS

Andrew Tingle — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 16:52:11 +0000

If you are one of the hundreds of people who subscribe to our feed then a few of you may have noted that a post that temporarily appeared in your feedreader has since gone AWOL on account of us removing it, thus resulting in a 404 error – here’s why it has been deleted.

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TFTS – As Featured on Reuters

Andrew Tingle — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 22:19:28 +0000

We are overjoyed to announce that, following our site featuring in Belgium’s edition of Maxim Magazine a while ago and our recent celebration concerning TFTS passing the magic 1,000,000 page views mark within fifteen months of the site’s conception, a TFTS reader has kindly been in contact (thanks Matt) to advise us that none other than Reuters are also beginning to feature our content.

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TFTS Celebrates 1,000,000+ Page Views

Andrew Tingle — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 11:51:50 +0000

Ever so often we like to celebrate something concerning the site and, being that we passed our 500,000th unique visitor mark some days ago without so much as a whimper, we wondered whether we should also sit back and watch our one millionth page view pass equally unmarked – then we thought, what the hell, let’s mark the occasion with a brief post.

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TFTS Posting Suspended for This Week

Andrew Tingle — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 20:42:26 +0000

My sincere apologies to regular readers, however, for the next five days there will be little (if any) in the way of posts on account of the fact that I have matters to attend to away from TFTS Towers as a result of a recent death in the family (alluded to in a post a few days ago).

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TFTS Reader Feedback Welcomed – And Received

Andrew Tingle — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 11:52:27 +0000

Yesterday we received some feedback from a reader which we thought we really ought to draw attention to as he raises a number of points that we felt we should address in full and, as we are always looking to learn and move forward as a result of feedback, we would readily welcome your take on the developing (in places somewhat heated) discussion.

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TFTS Online Store – Shop with TFTS and Amazon

Andrew Tingle — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 00:28:59 +0000

Long term readers of TFTS will no doubt recall that, back in the day when TFTS was a predominantly orange affair (we like to think that the new colour scheme is a little more pleasing to the eyes these days) we had our own online store which suddenly went MIA – well the good news is that its back, and its better than ever before so not only can you read TFTS, you can also shop with TFTS.

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TFTS Celebrates First Birthday

Andrew Tingle — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 12:07:26 +0000

We couldn’t possibly pass up on quickly marking the fact that Thoughts from the Sidelines celebrates its first birthday today – and what a year it’s been.

Whilst we are by no means a considerable presence on the net, we are extremely pleased with what has been accomplished in our first year not least due to the considerable amount of work we have put into the site. And we’ve loved almost every second of it.

In the space of the last year we have (at the point of writing) published a total of 808 posts which have received 717 comments and have been linked to 977 times by other sites which fills us with a warm fuzzy feeling (its either that or the beer). We have also received over 352,000 visits and served over 697,000 pages and our traffic, thankfully, is most definitely on the up.

If we can drop the curious use of ‘we’ for a brief moment and become an ‘I’ then I would like to thank all the sites that have linked to TFTS (big and small) as well as raise a beer to all the friends and contacts I have made during the course of this year and, or course, I would also like to thank those regular readers who visit the site day in day out or who access our content via RSS.

Here’s to our next year…

Concerning Recent Site Issues

Andrew Tingle — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 17:38:31 +0000

As regular readers of TFTS will know we recently moved to new hosting environment due to TFTS outgrowing our previous home and, initially, all was well.

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New Server Up and Running – Lets Get Back to Business

Andrew Tingle — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 03:04:07 +0000

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TFTS Now Back Online – What Happened?

Andrew Tingle — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 22:04:12 +0000

If you are a regular reader of TFTS you will no doubt have noticed that we’ve been inaccessible for just under 24hrs – which, it has to be said, have felt like the longest 24hrs of our lives.

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Announcing Our Sister Site – e-Potpourri!

Andrew Tingle — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 12:04:07 +0000

We’ve thought long and hard as to when would be the best time to publicise our new site, as referred to a few posts back, and, after much head scratching, we’ve decided that there really is no time like the present. Besides, we’re very keen to hear what you think of the new design (which we toiled on through multiple revisions for longer than we care to admit).

So, without further ado, we present to you TFTS’s sister site – e-Potpourri – which presently offers only a few posts, but enough to give you a general feel (which is poles apart from TFTS in terms of aesthetics) as well as an insight as to its direction and how the site works in practice.

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Support TFTS and Get Noticed – Come Write for Us

Andrew Tingle — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 00:27:54 +0000

Can you write in an engaging style? Can you find original gadget related content that you think would interest our readers? If so we are now opening our doors to invite additional writers to the TFTS team.

If you would like to be read by thousands, but do not have the time to maintain a site yourself, or if you just enjoy writing and would like to reach a truly international audience here’s your chance. And, as if international recognition wasn’t enough we’ll even pay you on a per post basis.

Anyone interested in joining us should contact us for further information via our contact form, preferably offering us samples of your work (or links to previously published work) as well as offering some indication as to your price per post expectations and, you never know, you too could be read the world over.

We look forward to hearing from you.

IE6 Issues Resolved

Andrew Tingle — Tue, 29 May 2007 19:53:09 +0000

We would like to sincerely apologise to any Internet Explorer 6 users who have had issues accessing TFTS over the last couple of days. Since the issue came to our attention (our thanks to Mike Perth in this respect) we have been working tirelessly on trying to replicate and resolve the problem – including having to install a Virtual Machine and paying for cross compatibility tests (which, helpfully, confirmed the problem we already knew about without giving any feedback whatsoever as to the possible origins of the error).

We now believe that we have isolated and resolved the problem which appears to have been a Javascript library for a smooth page scroll which we were experimenting with and yet, even when disabled, appeared to refuse to play ball (we will be contacting the author of said script to advise as to these cross browser compatibility issues).

It’s official – Maxim Magazine reads TFTS

Andrew Tingle — Fri, 04 May 2007 18:01:12 +0000

I am genuinely thrilled to announce that a story that I featured a while back in TFTS concerning Guillermo Sureda-Burgos’s beautiful personal submersible concepts has been featured in a half page article in Belgium’s May edition of Maxim Magazine.

I have known about this for some weeks, in honesty, but thought it best not to post about it until the time was right but, having returned home from work to find the complimentary edition of Maxim waiting for me, this seems a fitting time to let the cat out of the bag (so to speak).

I would like to thank Maxim Magazine, and in particular Tijl (thanks Tijl) for not only featuring the story but also for offering a link back in the magazine to TFTS. And, needless to say, I very much look forward to working with Maxim in the future.

Needless to say I would also like to extend my sincere thanks to Guillermo Sureda-Burgos for granting TFTS an exclusive concerning his submersible concepts and are thrilled that his work is getting the publicity it undoubtedly deserves.

At this point perhaps I should add that if you are a designer that would like your work to be featured or you work for a company that has a product that you feel would be of interest to the site’s readership, and you would like to have your work or products featured or reviewed in TFTS for that extra spark of publicity we would very much urge you to get in contact with us, (having versed yourself with our submission guidelines), via our contact form.

TFTS Moves to Full Feed with Imagery

Andrew Tingle — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 21:28:25 +0000

Following on from user feedback, we are pleased to advise that we have now updated our site feed from a summary feed to a full post feed inclusive of imagery.

We would like to thank all those who have been kind enough to offer feedback concerning TFTS and we hope that moving to a full feed will be welcomed by our readership.

(Incidentally, we are afraid that we must disappoint those of you who emailed us as asked if we could display a larger RSS Feed icon on the site on the basis that Aunt Agnus, who regularly visits for her dose of gadgets, curiosities and spelling mistakes, only has a 800×600 monitor – ).

TFTS Reader Feedback – Help us Improve

Andrew Tingle — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 10:24:03 +0000

Whether you are a seasoned subscriber to our feed, a regular visitor or are just passing by we would love to hear your views about the site – positive or negative.

As we gain in popularity – and we have you to thank for this as well as the countless hours we put into the site – we are constantly looking for ways in which we can improve your experience of Thoughts from the Sidelines. So if you could take a moment to offer some feedback we would greatly appreciate hearing from you (you do not have to register to leave a comment by the way).

We have implemented a number of additional components on the site of late but, never ones just to sit back, with your help and feedback we can act to tailor TFTS to your expectations.

New Incoming Links Feature Implemented

Andrew Tingle — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 00:07:09 +0000

As regular readers of TFTS will no doubt have noticed, there has been a great deal of interest in a number of stories we’ve featured here on TFTS of late and, by way of thanks to all those sites that have been kind enough to offer links back to TFTS concerning content featured obtained from us we have now implemented an incoming links feature on the site, which can be seen on the right sidebar.

Apart from offering something back to sites that send readers our way, we hope that the sites listed will prove of interest to readers of TFTS once you’ve exhausted the content we have to offer – which, incidentally, presently stands at over 500 posts!

This new feature follows on from our extremely popular, recently implemented browse by image page and in addition to the provision of a full sitemap to compliment our extensive post archive – all of which, we hope, will enable you to dig deep into the wealth of content we have to offer.

Needless to say, if you would like to keep a close eye on all future content offered here you can do so by subscribing to our feed to get our latest posts delivered straight to your desktop by clicking on the feed icon at the top of the left sidebar or, if its proving a little hard to find (can you possibly miss it?), by clicking here.

Finally, if you run a related blog and you would like to see your site featured in our incoming links list, just link to us and, if readers come our way you’ll get a link-back as thanks from us.

TFTS Featured as Tech Blog of the Week

Andrew Tingle — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 14:03:22 +0000

We’re overjoyed to announce that Thoughts from the Sidelines has been awarded the great accolade of being the featured Tech Blog of the Week for this coming week by the discerning chaps over at Daily Cup of Tech.

We are, obviously, delighted to have received this accolade and we would like to extend out sincere thanks to Daily Cup of Tech for their very kind words and extremely positive review concerning TFTS. It is also nice to see that our browse by imagery page has also been singled out for some attention, as well our random images from posts (as can be seen on the main page and at the bottom of every post) as we put a fair bit of work into this.

If you would like to read Daily Cup of Tech’s review of Thoughts from the Sidelines you can do so via this link, but in the meantime, here’s a taster:

‘I’ve actually got a major beef with this week’s Tech Blog of the Week is Thoughts from the Sidelines! They have so much cool stuff that if I were to buy everything that I wanted from their site, I’d have no money left for other, less important necessities in life like food and shelter.…’

[Source | Daily Cup of Tech]

TFTS Now Welcomes External Submissions

Andrew Tingle — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 12:29:56 +0000

TFTS has opened its doors, as we are now welcoming submissions from readers, bloggers, designers, conceptualists and product representatives in a bid to bring our readership more in the way of stimulating content.

Whether you are a reader who would simply like to tip us off about a news item you think we should feature in turn for being fully credited as the source, a conceptual designer who would like to get your work seen by a wider audience, a blogger who would like to share a story with us in return for a highly visible linkback to your site or a product rep who would like to offer us a heads up concerning a product you think would be of interest to our readership we would urge you to get in touch with us.

We cannot promise to feature every submission we receive, but if your submission is featured then, apart from being seen by a ceaselessly escalating audience, we will ensure that any submission posted is correctly and justly credited.
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First Post for CG Makes Guardian Unlimited

Andrew Tingle — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 17:15:44 +0000

I am overjoyed to say that my first post as a guest blogger for Coolest Gadgets – linked here – has not only seemingly caused quite a stir on the internet, with the majority of major sites picking it up but, to my surprise, I’ve just noticed that it’s even now featured on the Guardian Newspaper’s technology blog. (I’m a loyal Guardian reader myself so this is a great cause for celebration).

Cause for Celebration – Invitation from Coolest Gadgets

Andrew Tingle — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 18:34:58 +0000

It’s nice to be noticed and, with that in mind, I am overjoyed to announce that I have been formerly invited to become a guest blogger on none other than the Coolest Gadgets website – a particular cause for celebration as far as I am concerned as I have been a loyal follower of the much respected CG for some time now.

If you are a regular reader of TFTS, please rest assured that I will be continuing to work tirelessly on Thoughts from the Sidelines in unabated fashion, beer in hand, climbing mountains and swimming shark invested oceans for that all important content (well, ok, sitting in a decrepit swivel chair with West Midlands Police helicopter invariably hovering overhead – nothing I’ve done, I can assure you).

I would, of course, like to thank Coolest Gadgets for the interest they have taken not only in myself but also in TFTS and I very much look forward to working with them in the future.

By way of celebration TFTS now has an orange striped background (for no obvious or logical reason). Terrible, isn’t it.

TFTS Now Available as a Widget!

Andrew Tingle — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 18:33:44 +0000

Thoughts from the Sidelines has been Widgetized – and it didn’t hurt a bit (though, admittedly, we were heavily anesthetised during the ‘wigitization’ process).

If you would like to offer a live RSS feed of posts from Thoughts from the Sidelines from either your blog or your MySpace page we are happy to report that our feed widget should make adding our feed to your site a breeze and, not only that, but it can also be customised to fit in with your sites overall design with various palette and layout options being configurable to your tastes.

If you would like to help support Thoughts from the Sidelines whilst also offering your readers the latest fresh news from TFTS you can get out Feed Widget via this link.

Alternatively, if you own a gadgets, technology or design or similarly inspired site and would like to be featured in our highly selective links list, helping to drive traffic your way, then please do feel free to contact us via our contact form detailing what you believe your site offers our readership and, of course, providing the address of your site, and we will endeavor to get back to you as soon as we can.

You never know, your site might even be featured in a separate spotlight published in the main content!

New Browse TFTS by Image Page now Live

Andrew Tingle — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 21:54:36 +0000

It took a while to get it working the way we initially envisaged but, after a fair bit of hair-pulling and nail biting, we are pleased to announce that we have introduced a new feature to Thoughts from the Sidelines by which you can browse posts by imagery and, just to add a little spice into the equation, the post imagery displayed is created randomly – so you never quite know what’s going to turn up.

In fact, to be completely honest with you, we’ve been trying it for a few hours now as we tweak the code and we’re ashamed to say that a great many posts have turned up via the randomiser that even we had forgotten about (shame on us).

So if you are looking to browse the site’s entire contents which, at the time of writing, amounts to a total of 428 separate posts (we wondered where our lives had disappeared to over the last months – and, up until now, had readily assumed the haze was alcohol induced) then you may find the Browse by Imagery page of interest. Why not give it a go?

The Browse by Imagery page can either be accessed via the right sidebar or by clicking here.

Celebrating 100,000 Hits

Andrew Tingle — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 14:03:56 +0000

Just a quick post to say that we are overjoyed to report that Thoughts from the Sidelines has just passed the 100,000 hits mark today, which I missed on account of trying to upgrade my Wordpress installation (and having a few major technical issues – just typical).

For one of the major tech blogs with ’squillions’ of writers and an advertising budget to die for this is, of course, but a drop in the ocean but, for me personally, with the limited resources I have at my disposal, this is actually quite a big deal in some sort of abstract way.

Needless to say, I have a beer in hand and a smile on my face.

Here’s to the next 100,000!

TFTS Site Redesign Complete

Andrew Tingle — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 12:39:32 +0000

Justing sitting short of 100,000 hits, we are happy to report that the site redesign is now complete – though regular readers really cannot have failed to notice the aesthetic overall. Surprisingly it went without a hitch, though most of the development was completed on a separate test site and follows the additional development of a new sister site to TFTS – of which, more news soon.

Along with the site redesign we also have a new logo, as we have been logo-less for a while now (and a bit of branding never hurt anybody). We also have a new custom RSS icon that, let’s face it, you can hardly not notice.

A few further features have been added or extended during the redesign of the site which includes an extended selection of random posts by image on the left sidebar – you’re sure to find something interesting there if you are just looking to browse – as well as the inclusion of a full Sitemap to supplement the archives. Again, if you are just looking to browse the wealth of content we have here at TFTS then the Sitemap should be a good starting point (and can be accessed via the right sidebar Pages menu).

We hope that you like the new design, and the extra functionality it offers and, needless to say, any feedback would be greatly appreciated.

Now all we have to look towards is breaking the magical 100,000 visitors mark and continuing to seek out the best gadgets and curiosities for your reading pleasure.

TFTS Redesign Underway

Andrew Tingle — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 11:08:58 +0000

We would like to apologize to readers for any inconvenience caused as we aesthetically overhaul Thoughts from the Sidelines. We are using a ‘test bed’ to conduct the majority of the testing and recoding required, however, on occasions we will need to run a test via this main site.

Once the main development is complete TFTS will assume this new aesthetic and I am sure that we will then have to tweak things a little whilst live, but this should not overtly interfere with either site access or usability (you know how it is, you plan ahead, take all steps to ensure a fluid transition only to find that something causes issues that were never evident on the test site).

Thank you for your understanding, and we look forward to overing a revamped TFTS very soon.
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A Big Thank You to All Readers

Andrew Tingle — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 07:34:10 +0000

I have noticed that a number of readers have been adding pages from this site to popular bookmaking services using the links that I have provided at the bottom of every post.

I would like to extend my sincere thanks to those of you who have either done this or who have, in some way, helped to publicise Thoughts from the Sidelines. Getting a site seen is always immensely difficult unless, of course, you opt for serious advertising – which I am unable to do.

I did pay for one advert, and it was going to be great, but unfortunately the shuttle crew lost it in low orbit and then, to make matters worse, NASA decided to operate a cover up and released a news story about the Atlantis crew losing a bolt! I mean, I ask you – the cheek.

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