02.07.2003
-
04/09/2010
- Emoticons added to the chatroom after numerous requests. We're currently working
on our next newsletter's contents which should pop into your email boxes early
August. We are also manically trying to get some gifts for you lot as prizes
from a superb online PC company we've found who service us here in the UK and
America, directly we hear from them we'll let you know and start giving you the
prizes you've been longing for.14.04.2003
- 1.07.2003
- Wow, tons of work going on behind the scenes to reduce network traffic etc
(boring but essential I'm affraid!, aparently we're using nearly 10 times the
bandwidth of a major electricity producers site, SCARY! ), also general
maintenance
and
loads
of
new
features
added.
More
will
emerge
in
time
as our new servers are installed etc. ENJOY! 18.03.2003
- 14.04.2003 - Tons of new features, Events Database, Blogs and e-cards to name
a
few. Still working hard on the site to ensure it works without error. Prizes
will soon be available for the new competitions starting shortly. 13.03.2003
- 17.03.2003 - Manic few days with loads more stuff added to the site. New global
login so you register once, login once, then can use anything on the site. YEP
ANYTHING! 12.03.2003 -
NEW SITE LAUNCHED, there are still loads of new things to go on the site from
games, to competitions and funny features. Keep checking every day for the newly
uploaded bits! 24.02.2003
- 11.03.2003 - More contents added to the new site ready for launch soon. Tons
of phone calls made to try and get advertising or sponsorship for the site, waiting
to hear back...
23.02.2003 - Charity Football Match Day - Hollyoaks vs
Family Affairs. Superb day in Lordswood, Kent, weather
held out although it was numbingly cold. Nicest people of the day awards
go to Pete Callan (David Easter), Tony Hutchinson (Nick Pollard) & Ben
Davies (Marcus Patric), most likely to spend all the time texting award
goes to Yasmin Matthews (Ebony Thomas). WELL DONE ALL, great day out for
charity....Spent ages staring at a stunning girl possibly Hollyoaks Jodie
Nash (Kate McEnery) in the top bar, if it wasn't you, sorry.
27.01.2003 - 22.02.2003 - More images added, new crew out and about image
added and slap the gherkin now 100% faster!
26.01.2003 - "Slap The Gherkin" launched, more work to be done
to count the total slaps etc but this will be done in the week.
24.01.2003 - 25.01.2003 - Working on "Slap The Gherkin"
23.01.2003 - Combined adult/kids chatroom, now self moderating.
22.01.2003 - nothing! knackered after learning XML, XSLT & XML-FO all
day!
21.01.2003 - Bowed to pressure and added an ADULT chat room, double posting
will still chuck you out but swearing is now allowed.
06.01.2003 - 20.01.2003 - Working on the templates for the site revamp,
hope to have them all done within the next 2-3 weeks
05.01.2003 - We've now had 2,001,482 visitors, YES OVER 2 MILLION!!!, thank
you all for the continued support, and those who gave us the first boost
when we launched in MAy 2002.
04.01.2003 - 05.01.2002 - Not a lot today, too cold, had about 7" of
snow here so just stayed in and kept warm... thinking of templates for the
complete revamp of the IHG site. Just checked the weblogs and our visitor
count is now 1,991,907!!! SCARY!!!!!!!!
02.01.2003 - 03.01.2003 - Back to work, just started to learn Core Java
and Object-oriented programming, YES VERY SCARY STUFF!!!
01.01.2003 - SHHHHHSHH!, Hungover!
25.12.2002 - 31.12.2002 - Beer, Food, Beer, tad more beer......
24.12.2002 - Christmas "Mr Gherkin Head" now fixed, SORRY!, rechecked
visitor logs, now 1,908,949 visitors.
23.12.2002 - 1st Mailout sent......
22.12.2002 - Christmas "Mr Gherkin Head" well under way, should
be up fully by end of 23rd, (up now but very basic!)
20.12.2002 - 21.12.2002 Preparing 1st Mailout! and recoding new chat room,
the new room will now ban you if you swear, double or repetitively post
and as of late 21/12 also remove you if you forget to click the exit button
(very much asked for addition from every user)
19.12.2002 - not telling you.
16.12.2002 - 18.12.2002 - NEW CHATROOM LAUNCHED, also 3 more images added
to gallery and Christmas Mr Gherkin Head nearly ready for launch!!!
1.12.2002 - 15.12.2002 - Coding for new chatroom (to be launched soon)
30.11.2002 - Les wins My Big Brother's Gherkins!
25.11.2002 - 29.11.2002 - More BB bits and background work added.
24.11.2002 - Anne is the 1st person to go on our Big Brother's Gherkins,
you voted her off, we booted her off! who's it going to be next? only you
decide!
21.11.2002 - 23.11.2002 - More work to CBBG and Win The Dot
20.11.2002 -Launched "Celebrity Big Brother's Gherkin"
14.11.2002 - 19.11.2002 - Database updates etc.
13.11.2002 - AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH! Sorry for the site being down for a while
today, completely our error!, we had to rebuild the database, sorry!
11.11.2002 - 12.11.2002 - New thumbnail gallery added, new image uploaded
for the crew "out & about"
10.11.2002 - WIN THIS DOT launched!
07.11.2002 - 09.11.2002 - Paper Planes now available!
01.11.2002 - 06.11.2002 - You can now upload your images direct, see the
right hand menu's on each page!, more contents added, and the front page
altered
29.10.2002 - 31.10.2002 - 15 more images added to the Halloween Mr Gherkin
Head.
28.10.2002 - Preparing our first MAIL OUT!
See we said we wouldn;t bombard you !!!!
18.10.2002 - 27.10.2002 - More contents added, more background coding preparing
for a
17.10.2002 - More contents added along with a wordsearch in the games area.
16.10.2002 - IP banning now enabled
15.10.2002 - More abuse coding carried out. Yep you know who you are!
03.10.2002 - 14.10.2002 - Viewers Gallery Added and more background work
done.
02.10.2002 - 2 more gallery entries uploaded,
Gherkins Anonymous ready!
01.10.2002 - Working on more contents and abuse functions.
30.09.2002 - New Crew picture added.
29.09.2002 - Videos uploaded, nore behind the scenes coding.
28.09.2002 - Gherkins fate looks sure that the mincer will win so we've
done the clip already, we will link it for you to watch Sunday. Today we
will set fir to Darren Day the loser in our Celebrity Gherkin challenge.
Errors on stop-a-doodle-gerk fixed, sorry for any hickups between 10pm last
night and 10.30am today.
27.09.2002 - The mincer arrived today so the
fate will be prepared, also Darren to go up in flames tonight and more games
on their way!
26.09.2002 - More contents & busy preparing
for the 1st lotter launch, Darren Gherkins death, pushing a gherkin through
a mincer and the start of Celebrity Gherkin Fat Club!
25.09.2002 - More contents added and multiple
submission abuse code added to stop-a-doodle-gerk
24.09.2002 - More contents added to galleries.
23.09.2002 - Spot the Gherkin Updated!,
GHERKIN LOTTERY ADDED!
20.09.2002 - 22.09.2002 - more code added, Celebrity Gherkin closed, just
need to sort out Darren, should be up within a few days. Nearly ready to
launch the National Gherkin Lottery!
19.09.2002 - Lonely Hearts search enhanced, Stop a doodle gerk finished.
more coding done to stop abusive posts.
18.09.2002 - More work to be done on search results page for Lonely Hearts,
about to code new feature: Gherkalot's Lottery, Tony Blackburns
STOP A DOODLE GHERK launched !
17.09.2002 - Search page for Lonely Hearts now working, results page works
but more features being added hopefully by about 10 tonight.
16.09.2002 - Still working on search page, will revamp the site shortly
to allow text resizing etc
15.09.2002 - Lonely Hearts search page that was promised for Saturday night
should be done by Tuesday. Sorry it wasn't done but I have a life, yep honest!
ok i'm lying!, anyone in Medway who wants to take me out for a drink email
me!
14.09.2002 - GHERKIN PLANT DIES... Last night in its sleep the gherkin
plant died, as a mark of respect we have closed the webcam, please do not
send
flowers, donations may me made to the gherkins
in need appeal.
13.09.2002 - More work done to Who's Ya Daddy, should all be working fully
by tonight.
12.09.2002 - Who's the daddy now able to list all entries added so far,
Lonely Hearts profile nearly complete, more images added to galleries.
11.09.2002 - Lonely Hearts nearly finished, you can add data but the profiles
or search do not work as yet.
10.09.2002 - UNDER CONSTRUCTION: Lonely Hearts & Eastenders
goes Gherkin' mad.
09.09.2002 - WOW! looks like we've been on the radio again, major thanks
to Johnnie Walker (Radio 2) and Capital FM
for plugging the site and YOU LOT for visiting!!!!!
08.09.2002 - More Gallery contents added, and you've also
NOT donated over £32,700 now to "Gherkins
in Need" !
07.09.2002 - Abuse function added to "Who's Ya Daddy"
to route out abusive words, also results of "Im a celebrity
Gherkin" now coded to appear on the front page.
06.09.2002 - Database compacted to speed up the site and fromt page re-arranged.
More work added to gallery.
05.09.2002 - 2 new venturesavailable: 1) Gherkin Weather Forcasts &
2) "Who's ya daddy?" name the daddy to win!
04.09.2002 - Thanks, you've already NOT donated over £1500
to" Gherkins in Need" !
03.09.2002 - Videos uploaded for August, "HOW MUCH YOU HAVEN'T
DONATED TO: Gherkins in need" launched . Forum removed due
to lack of use.
02.09.2002 - Loads more emails through, sorry it's taking so long to reply
but we will!, more added to the site. Unfortunately due to the rain we still
havent been able to do the poll winner yet but will do asap
01.09.2002 - Welcomed September in with the start of a new poll, more contents
added and about to start a "how to email your mr gherkin head entries"
page. "I'm a Celebrity Gherkin, Get Me Out Of Here!
now finished.
31.08.2002 - Contents added and more work done to "I'm a Celebrity
Gherkin, Get Me Out Of Here!, poll closed and new poll launched.
30.08.2002 - More hits and more contents added, thanks to everyone sending
in their images!
29.08.2002 - Unbelievable, our busiest day in 2 months, the web logs today
on their own are over 12MB, thank you all for visiting and taking the time
to send your comments on the site, ideas for the furure and of course your
Mr Gherkin Head gallery entries!, 1000 THANKS!!!, polls reorganised, preparing
new entries for gallery and then a "I'm a Gherkin Celebrity" GET
ME OUT OF HERE!
28.08.2002 - WOW, we've had nearly 1500 hits today alone, thanks for the
hundreds of you who have emailed in and let us know you heard about us on
Radio 2, AND THANK YOU FOR VISITING!
20.07.2002 - 27.08.2002 - Gallery work added and updates done.
29.07.2002 - More contents, getting ready to launch "POP STAR GHERKINS"
28.07.2002 - More news and gallery items added along with new game SNAKE
27.07.2002 - SAW AUSTIN POWERS "GOLDMEMBER", superb! MOLE! and
we managed to get everything uploaded so the new contents, games etc are
now available for you all to use. 2 more games will be added later.
25.07.2002 / 26.07.2002 - 3 more games added along with lots of new content,
unfortunately due to a fire near Telehouse we lost our server connection
until 7 pm tonight, slowly catching up and when we can upload the new games
etc we will. SORRY!
23.07.2002 / 24.07.2002 - More contents added from our "Crew Out &
About" series, more contents added.
22.07.2002 - More gallery contents added, started work on the "Advert
Micky Takes"
20.07.2002 / 21.07.2002 - More contents added to gallery and chatrooms modified.
19.07.2002 - NEW CHATROOM LAUNCHED!!!!!
17.07.2002 / 18.07.2002 - More updates to chat room.
12.07.2002 / 16.07.2002 - Adding more contents and coding new features that
will be launched soon!
11.07.2002 - More back end coding, previous days "stills" for
web cam uploaded and new news story added to main page.
10.07.2002 - Training at Buckmore Park, sorry! need to loose the beer belly!,
back-end coding being done to revamp all the other pages and add some more
by the weekend, check back Saturday to see more!!!
09.07.2002 - More contents added and home page redesigned.
08.07.2002 - More contents added.
07.07.2002 - More content added, "Coming Soon" added. That's about
all for today!
06.07.2002 - 12:15 this weeks video's for "Gherkins Fate" uploaded,
just compressing it into Real format as well, should be up by 12:30.
05.07.2002 - We made Invicta FM today, thanks to Chris Finn, from your comments
I guess we also made it onto Radio 1 and Capital FM, thanks to all the stations
for the kind plug, hope you enjoyed what you saw.Also a massive thanks to everyone that keeps recommending the site and those who keep visiting it! Without you we would be nothing!!
04.07.2002 - Another 10,245 hits so far today, going to spend some time
looking to see what you like now and remove the stuff you don't, then we'll
fill it with new things more along the line of the stuff you like already!
APOLOGIES! hangman now fixed!
External Links database and relevant links added.
03.07.2002 - As of 5.30 we've had another 9,851 hits today. Tonight we are
going to spend some more time trying to get the site on the likes of Kiss
FM, Invicta, Radio 1 etc, with your help we could do it!!! Also due to the demand it looks as though our original chat room will need to be given a complete re-write, this should be done by the weekend and will allow for seperate rooms, private chats etc....
Check back every day to see all the addition you lot have sent in added to the site!!
Redesigned the "Mr Gherkin Head" page, with full instruction on how to email your photos, also started work on a links page as so many of you have asked for one, so if you want your site included send in a link!, later!
02.07.2002 - Made it into Amy's Eye in the Daily Mirror
& on Power FM giving the site a major boost with a
massive 39,420 hits in the 1st 24hours. Thanks everyone who has been in
and a massive thanks to Amy at The Mirror and all at Power
FM
18.06.2002 - 01.7.2002 - Adding Contents.
17.06.2002 - Hang Gherkin Game code now fixed - APOLOGIES!
16.06.2002 - More names added to the name generator, More images added to
the gallery.
13.06.2002 - Site resubmitted to all the search engines, working on database
contents.
11.06.2002 - More work on the mailing list to speed up code.
10.06.2002 - Check code added to mailing list to ensure only valid email
addresses are added to the database.
09.06.2002 - More news and contents added, first "Gherkin Mail"
sent out.
08.06.2002 - Gherkin plants doing well, getting stronger every day, live
webcam to be back as soon as they are well enough for visitors.
07.06.2002 - Theme tune added to BB, more news items added, news code tweaked
slightly.
06.06.2002 - Forum "reply posts" page recoded to break and start
a new page after every 10 posts, BB updated and more of your site contents
added.
05.06.2002 - Spent all day @ Bluewater so nothing added today, sorry.
04.06.2002 - Plants recovering, live webcam to be relaunched soon, still
working on the admiministration side so not much added today.
03.06.2002 - Gherkins fate files compressed for speed in "Real"
format although some of the "avi" downloads are between 1/3 -
1MB, sorry, will work on this further during the week.
02.06.2002 - Forum code updated, more BB details added. Plants recovering
in intensive care nursery, still touch and go.....were watching!
01.06.2002 - Pages cleaned for speed, smileys now work in forum (more will
be added soon), style sheets altered slightly. Gherkin plants moved out
to the garden and re-potted, they are not happy and currently look dead!.
Trying to liven them up with Miracle Grow, will keep you all informed as
to their recovery.
31.05.2002 - Mailing list code amended, now no maximum size address restrictions.
30.05.2002 - Guestbook added, still under construction but will be finished
by 31/6, this is also self regulating and will *** out abusive words. Please
note though, the system has been designed to collect the IP address and
automatically ban any user using foul language.
29.06.2002 - Big Brother should be running by the end of today and we hope
to have a lot more content in by the time we go fully live. Thanks for everyone
that has added content so far!!, news updated, spot the gherkin image renewed.
28.05.2002 - Not much today, got back from London at 7.00. Started to appear
on the search engines at last
27.05.2002 - Sorry nothing today, in London on a Content Management Seminar
for 2 days.
26.05.2002 - Chat room now auto moderated for swear words, new game added:
hangman, mailing list modified, big brother images created and uploaded.
love Sammy the best so far, a kilted gherkin, whatever next?
25.05.2002 - Mailing list still a problem with names over 14 characters,
have found a workaround but need to get time to code it in (around pub times
that is!) , need a laptop installed at the pub!, more work done for a big
brother launch due this next week.
24.03.2002 - Big brother created, forum modified slightly, mailing list
worked on.
23.05.2002 - Mailing list added. Advanced chat room under way with multiple
rooms, private messaging etc, should be available by 27/5. All email addresses
now constructed by JavaScript to stop "email grabbing spiders"
collecting peoples details.
22.05.2002 - Brand new chat room added, now with face icons, users online
etc, news page code tweaked for speed, more names added to name generator.
21.05.2002 - Send and log-off images added to chat, also the chat now holds
the last 20 lines of text compared to the previous 10. Web-cam scripts updated.
20.05.2002 - New Forum code added, the forum is now quicker as we have cleaned
the code, smileys will be added during the week, more words added to banned
list, live chat tweaked slightly.
19.05.2002 - Live Gherki-Chat added, at present it's an un-moderated live
chat room but we will work on the coding during the week to auto remove
expletives. New Gherki-Cam images uploaded and Gallery links now auto centre
from start.
18.05.2002 - View old webcam photos ability added to Gherki-Cam, more images
uploaded, gherkins fate video for w/e 17.05.2002 uploaded.
17.05.2002 - Style sheets changes and site reorganised, historical gherkins
removed (this will now be included as part of the gallery), gherkins fate
closed, new fate started.
16.05.2002 - Smileys in production for forum, Games page reorganised, news
page now allows you to see the a gallery of the last 7 days news items independantly
from the full gallery of images. First 2 gherkins planted start to sprout.
15.05.2002 - "Latest News" headlines now automatically appear
on index page.
14.05.2002 - "Recommend A Friend" link added, "News Page"
is now driven by the database and old news images are automatically archived
to the gallery.
13.05.2002 - "Gherk-Cam" now installed and running, more Veggie
Names added.
12.05.2002 - Databases compacted, image sizes reduced in gallery.
11.05.2002 - Thumbnails now create automatically for all images added to
the main gallery and to the "Mr Gherkin Head" gallery.
10.05.2002 - Video's for Gherkins Last Stand now appear in "Real"
format as well as "AVI", new files uploaded and compressed.
09.05.2002 - Email address removed from forum to stop spam abuse to / from
the forum users.
08.05.2002 - More images added to "Mr Gherkin Head"
07.05.2002 - "Spot the Gherkin" added.
06.05.2002 - New came added "Tic-Tac-Toe"
05.05.2002 - Site registered with Safesurf, ICRA & iWatchdog.
04.05.2002 - Forum amended to remove swear words automatically, functions
added to page to report any abusive language that slips through so it can
be removed and added to our "banned" database.
03.05.2002 - Site registered with over 500 search engines.
02.05.2002 - Find your "Veggie Name" Generator installed.
01.05.2002 - 2 "How To Guide's" added, pages and database altered
so images also automatically appear in "Main Gallery".
Prior Dates - Conception of sight and collation of basic gallery images,
design of databases and ASP coding. News stories written files optimised,
web space obtained along with domain names.
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