He finally did it, Lewis Hamilton won his first race today for the 2009 season of F1 Racing . It has been a long time coming but he definitely deserves it now after having such a slow and terrible start to the season.

As per usual I have only just finished watching the race, I record the races when they are on live and then watch them later. It is very difficult trying to avoid finding out who the winner is of the race for that day. I usually try to stay away from sites such as twitter on race days as I follow a lot of the formula one racers.

The new aero pack that was added to Lewis’ car last week has been slightly modified this week, and it has proven to be a great success so far. Hopefully this will be the start to many more successful races for the rest of the season .

I have always thought Lewis was the best driver and today he has pulled through again . Now there is going to be a four week break until the next race The racing teams will all take a week or two off now to rest and no work will be done.

Then once they start back they will be preparing for their next race, and trying to get that bit of extra juice out of their cars for when the qualifying starts.

There was definitely lots of action today in the race, with wheels flying off and drivers dropping out due to mechanical problems. Also there was great head to head action for the position of 1st, second and third.

Here are today’s race results: 1st place: Lewis Hamilton , 2nd place: Kimi Raikkonen and 3rd place: Mark Webber.

On many sites nowadays, especially on blogs, whenever you leave a comment a little picture will display in a small square beside your comment. This is known as a gravatar.

A gravatar is a little picture that represents you on the web. It is a simple picture that you can choose to show who you are. It is similar to if you are on a social networking site such as twitter, you will have a profile picture to show who you are.

The way a gravatar works is very simple, you simply go to the Gravatar website here, and then click on sign up. All they ask for is your e-mail address!

So why do they only ask for your e-mail address? Basically that is the only thing they need to have your image follow you on the web. So how does it work? Whenever you are on a site that has the gravatar feature on it, such as this site ,  when you leave a comment, it will ask for your e-mail address. By entering your e-mail address into that comment box it then checks to see if you are a gravatar member and if you are it will pull down your image that you chose and then display it next to your comment.

It is really simple and it will give a more personal touch to your comment. On some sites if you do not have a gravatar it just shows the gravatar logo, on my blog here if you do not have your own gravatar, a little cartoon character will show .

So go on, get yourself a Gravatar!

A local band here in Dundalk have recently finished making their first music video. Most bands do try and make their own videos. It seems to be a must nowadays for any band big or small .

None the less a local band here has made their music video called: Bright White Light by Artificial Flight. This song has always been my favorite off of their album, and I was really happy to hear that they chose that song to be used for their video.

They have recently gotten there own website, I was originally supposed to build it, however one of the other band members went ahead and got it done with someone else that they knew. The site is looking really well and can be found here: http://www.artificialflight.net.

The site is what you would expect from a band, it has all their music on the actual site. I would personally not add all of the band’s music to the site; usually you would add 2 of their most popular songs. The reason for this is so that nobody can download the full album off the site for free!

Which makes having a shop to buy there cd pretty pointless. Why would you buy the cd when you can listen for free on their site! I have the cd already and know that it is worth buying and for only €5 it is definitely worth a listen .

Anyway here is there new music video, looks great, enjoy .

When designing websites, being able to take a screenshot of how it looks is always very useful.  However trying to get the whole page in can prove fairly difficult. Usually you will have to take multiple screenshots and then crop them together.

There is a great site that will make a full page screenshot of any site and will then allow you to edit it online, add arrow indicators and also you can crop a certain section out if you want. Then when you are finished editing, even if you didn’t make any changes you can just save it to your computer.

So this is how easy it is to make a full page screenshot, any site you want to make a screenshot of you just add http://aviary.com/ before the url and then press go, and it will begin to generate a new page with a screenshot of that site you wanted.

For example, if you wanted to make a screenshot of my blog here, the URL is http:// leateds.com all you would have to do is add in the URL in bold above before it to look like this: http://aviary.com/http://leateds.com and it will make a great screenshot.

This tool could come in useful if you are making a website for a client, and in order to show something to them, you could make a quick screenshot and then e-mail it to them for their approval. Or if you had a portfolio of sites you made, you could use these images as large previews of previous projects.

So if a site you once owned is gone, you will always have the screenshot of it. Also if you are going to re-design a website you could take a screenshot before and after it to see how different the site was previously.

Also on the aviary site they offer a load of free programs for image editing. They are a free alternative to the likes of Photoshop and the great thing is that you can use them anywhere as they do not save to your computer; you just simply run them live online! They actually load really fast! .

I will definitely be using these tools more often now that I know about them; they will be usefully for some quick editing. I have bookmarked this site now for quick access .

On this blog I use Google analytics to track how many visits I get to the site. I also use it on all my other sites that I have made. It is by far the best tool to get statistics on a website.

For some reason though, about 15 days ago, my Google analytics stopped recording data on my visitors! I now have 11 days of stats that are just 0, I do not mind that I cannot see how much traffic I got, the thing that I am wondering is how it stopped working!

I use a plugin in wordpress to add the code to the site, it makes it simple, less likely to break the source code of the site, but it is not very likely anybody could possibly break the source code of their site by adding the Google analytics code.

So for the few days that my analytics were down, I was trying loads of different plugins to try and get them working again, but I had no luck. Then suddenly one day it started to work again.

The graph above shows the traffic to this blog for the past few days, you can see the sudden dip in the graph; this is when the Google analytics tracking stopped working! It is strange that it suddenly begun to work again.

I know that other users of Google Analytics have experienced this before and as far as I know there is no known reason why it happens. If I were to make a suggestion to what might have happened, it would be that maybe there may have been maintenance occurring at Google, however I doubt it would affect tracking for more than a day or 2. Also maybe there might have been a huge increase in traffic to Google analytics.