About this site

Bombippy is the personal website of Jay Kerr. It is a daily weblog of DVD reviews, observations, links, food recipes, humour, graphic design and more.

Bombippy launched in January 2002. In February 2005, the site was completely redesigned with a retro theme.

Advertising

Several pages on this site use Google AdSense to display ads from Google. This helps to pay for the hosting fees.

You'll also see a few ads for Zip.ca. I use their DVD rental service in Canada and find it to be a great alternative to Blockbuster. If you'd like to try their service for free then click here or on any of the Zip.ca ads on this site.

Publishing

The weblog content on Bombippy is published using Movable Type as of February 2005. When the site launched in 2002, Blogger was used to publish the site.

Why the switch? Movable Type provides better content management, flexible PHP publishing using custom templates, comment moderation, categories and subcategories, plugins and it also runs on your site.

Some of the Movable Type plugins used to publish Bombippy include SmartyPants, Nofollow and Favicon

Hosting

Hosting is provided by DreamHost — competitive pricing, PHP, MySQL, rewards and excellent service.

Coding

Bombippy is coded by hand using the latest version of BBEdit, Transmit and Adobe PhotoShop

XHTML and CSS are used to render all of the pages on this site. If you want to see things properly then you'll need to get a modern web browser like Firefox.

Hardware

Apple Macintosh of course. My first computer was a Commodore Vic-20 from Canadian Tire. In 1984 my father bought me an Apple IIc for my birthday. From there it was a Macintosh IIsi and the rest was history.