Just a quick note one this overcast and cloudy weekend that I’ve completed the latest updates to the tee blog list and it has now swollen like my belly after a visit to a hinese buffet and has reached a rather collossal 149 sites. I’ve also made it clearer which of the blogs are dead and which are extensions of t-shirt companies by putting [Dead] and/or [Corporate] next to their name.

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I know I might be shooting myself in the foot when I tell you this, but I’m sure there are parts of HYA that you really aren’t interested in (admin posts like this one, for example), and it just occurred to me a couple of days ago that it is possible to make an RSS feed out of pretty much anything on Hide Your Arms.

Let’s say you wanted to have an RSS feed that is just for hoodie posts, in that case, all you’d have to do was add the URL http://hideyourarms.com/category/hoodies/feed/ in your feed reader. Basically all you need to do is add /feed/ to the end of any category or tag, and you’ll get an RSS feed that will just show the posts in that category or tag. Sorry if this isn’t news to anyone, but I realised that with me posting up to six times a day that you might actually be getting a bit of an overload of HYA.

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Tags » Admin • feed • picture of me pretending to be jesus • rss

You can now follow me on Twitter, why on Earth you’d want to is an entirely different and mysterious matter.

HYA on Twitter

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After an unexpected and unwelcome 24 flight delay (props to Air France, they did put us all up in a hotel, but a 24 hour delay is still crazy) I’m back from Hong Kong and ready to get back in the swing of blogging. I got loads of e-mails whilst I was away from new (to me) brands, and loads of offers and deals (some of which have now sadly expired) so, I might be focusing less on product picks over the next few days whilst I try and clear out the backlog.

If you’d like to see what I was up to on holiday then check out my blog (admittedly, I wrote a lot more about food than what I got up to, and I didn’t write often enough). If you think you already read way too much of my waffly writing, check out my Hong Kong Flickr set, which will be expanding considerably over the next few days after I finish up processing all my RAW picture files.

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Tags » Admin • air fance blows • HK • hong kong • self-centred personal blogging • travel

Yeah, bet you didn’t expect to see that title on a HYA post!

I managed to get a great deal and will be heading off on Friday morning, I’m going to try and write up enough posts before I go so that there will be something new every day, but I can’t guarantee that will actually happen as I am often a lazy, lazy man.

Apparently, my hotel in HK has free wifi, so if you really need to get in contact with me I should be contactable by e-mail, and if you want to keep tabs on my travels (I can practically guarantee pictures of me eating unidentifiable meat!) then check out my personal blog.

[cool photo by Steve Webel]

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Tags » Admin • HK • hong kong • self-centred personal blogging • travel

Laptop maintenance the easy way, originally uploaded by bitrot.

Just quick warning that there’s no need to e-mail me if the blog looks crazy for the next hour or so, I’m upgrading the laugably out-dated version of Wordpress that I run to their latest stable build. I’m also using this opportunity for the first time to try posting from Flickr to Hide Your Arms, so if this post looks wrong, also no need to e-mail me.

*Update: All done, hopefully nothing is broken, if it is, please let me know*

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Tags » Admin • upgrade • wordpress

… because I always seem to be flaking on you!

There’s no (real) post tonight or tomorrow because I’m heading down to the Midlands for a wedding tomorrow and I’ve got to be up early tomorrow for the 170 mile drive.

But I promise I will have an absolute doozy of a hoodie for you on Monday, and there should be a hands-on review next week, and possibly even an interview, so whilst the weekend may be starting early at HYA, next week should be awesome.

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I feel like everything on HYA has been a bit disjointed for the past month or so, what with the week of downtime, then switching to a new host, so its pretty unfortunate that just as I’m back into the rhythm of blogging I’m going to go on holiday.

As the title suggests I’m heading to the South of France and I’ll be gone until next Saturday and don’t expect to go near a computer (I may well suffer from internet withdrawal), so the next post will be on July 10th, unless I’m really hungover from celebrating England winning the World Cup the day before. The second half of that sentence may well end up looking stupid, lets hope not.

So check the links for other tee and clothes sites, and if you feel like helping to fund my mission to impress French girls by pretending to be astoundingly rich then there’s plenty of affiliate links on the links page too!

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Tags » Admin • fance • holiday • st tropez • travel

My internet is being very slow and silly today (where’ve all the images on the internet gone?), but I couldn’t bear to think of you all going without advice from your preacher of hoods, so check out my del.icio.us for a load of fresh links that I’ll be using over the next few weeks.

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Tags » Admin • boo internet • delicious • social • sorry

I think that after about 10 hours of trying, retrying, deleting, being impatient and drinking I’ve managed to move HYA to a new server, and it should all be working the same as this morning, except possibly faster and more reliably.

Thanks for being patient, maybe now things can get focused back on the stuff that matters. Hoodies, track jackets and onesies!

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Tags » Admin • downtime • sorry