Ive added a few cool things to my site –

firstly I upgraded the wordpress and all the plugins, which went really smoothly, for once..
then I re-designed the header so that the rss feed is in the to left, and I added my last.fm radio player thingy, I need to do a bit of hacking to get it to not re-load the player every time you go to a new page, I also need to fix the front page a bit – its becoming a bit stale, also the tutorials page looks crap, I need to re-design it so that all the tutorials are displayed in the boxes at the bottom, and not all the random entries from the categories – that should only take a few minutes to do, the radio player thing will take longer.
im not to keen on the position of the search bar thingy, it could be neater.
also I need to make the searcher use google search cos its better, and I can get some money for the searches that you lot do on my site.

i found that all my feeds were crap. my hosting provider had added a bit of code to count the pageviews, but I dont use my hosting providers stats, I use google stats, so I had to remove their code, which was added at run time, it was a hidden option in their control panel that took me ages to find !

so, im gonna do a bit of re-designing and neatening up of the site. im gonna do it right now, and ill be editing the site live, so if its broken then just re-load the page =)