Today I have been playing with the Twitter API. If you see all the images in the block on the right, that is all my Twitter friends feed live via the API. If you can't see the images in the block on the right, it means either Twitter is down or I have made to many request this hour.

Yesterday I spend the day at the Hard Rock Calling festival in Hyde Park, London. The line-up featured Robert Randolf, Jason Mraz, John Mayer, Sheryl Crow and Eric Clapton. It was a great day and out of the four times I have seen Eric Clapton this was the best.

Have a look at my video of John Mayer after the break and my photos are on my Flickr

Earlier this month Media Temple announced that in partnership with Apple and Parallels they will be releasing virtual servers based on Apples Xserve hardware and Mac OS X Leopard Server software.

As a big Apple fan and Web developer I am really excited about this and can't wait to get my hands on one. Media Temple are currently going through a Private Beta test on the system which I have signed up for, I just hope I get selected.

It seems to be a big question in the community whether to develop new web sites using Drupal 5 or Drupal 6.

For this site I am using Drupal 6, and I am yet to encounter any problems. This is mainly due to the very few modules I use. Most of them are core apart from Google Analytics, Tagadelic and the collection of image solutions I have been trialing my way through until I find one that it better than writing the HTML.

On 17th June 2008 it was Download Day! Firefox 3 was released and they tried and suceeded to set a world record for the most downloads in 24 hours.Although I have been using Firefox 3 Beta for a while, and love it, I was one of the millions to download the final release.

I am now half way through the Lullabot Drupal training here in Toronto.

So far so good, we are just starting API and Module development, should be fun! Watch out for new modules popping up soon!

More photos here from Jeff Robbins http://www.flickr.com/photos/jjeff/

Over the weekend I found out how to get thousands of visitors to my site.

1. Find a topic teenagers will like
2. Blog about said topic
3. Moderate the comments

That's all there is too it.

Many of my post on my blog have been a little geeky, about Apple, the iPhone or Drupal. These are not mass market topics. When I blogged about the Sunday Times Rich List my visitors for that day went for an average 30 a day up to 150. When I blogged about Britain's Got Talent my visitors for Sunday 1st June rocketed up to 2000.

It has just been announced that George Sampson, the teenage break dancer, has won Britain's got talent 2008.

He fought off tough competition from a host of variety acts to take the £100,000 prize and chance to perform in front of Prince Charles at the Royal Variety Performance 2008.

Second place went to Signature, the Michael Jackson / Asian dance duo, as featured on YouTube, Digg and Diggnation.

Third place went to Andrew Jonston the 13 year old choir boy

All their semi-final performances can been seen after the break

In a weeks time I will be sat on a plane to Canada.

I am off to take part in the Lullabot Drupal training, it is a week long course running right from installation, through to module development.

As you can see from this site I have mastered the installation side, but my module development is going very slowly, so I hope Lullabot can help.

As you may or may not know as well as this being my Blog it is also my play site so I can try out new drupal features in a real world situation.

After watching Rob Douglass's screen cast (embedded after the break) about new Drupal themes which use the Colour module I thought I would try one of them out.

This is the Pixture theme, it come in a nice girly pink as default, but the colour picker allows the user to select exactly the colour needed.