Cheech and Chong goodies to be won.

The infamous Cheech and Chong films are now finally together in one phat dvd boxset (5 dvd's!). We have two sets to give away to the most creative mobloggers out there, and you don't even have to be a member of the site! Since Cheech and Chong are the godfathers of puff, the original counter-culture heroes, we want you to send in your smokin'est pics, be creative with this, we're looking out for that flash of inspiration from that perfect stoner moment.

Rules are simple, nothing naked, those pics we will unfortunately have to delete. Pretty much anything else goes! It could be your Amsterdam holiday or a functioning rocket-ship made for toilet paper rolls and wire coat-hangers, have fun! The competition ends early december, winners will be notified on the site and by email.

Also, our infamous PR machine, Alfie has created two new themes for the site, the goretastic Spatter (preview in new window) and the delightful Hopkin Green Frog (preview in new window) Thanks Alfie!

fixes some long-term bugs

A big update to the mail parser has just gone live, which should have fixed a few of the more persistent bugs in the system. The following things should now all be fixed in the submission process:

- Some text appearing twice.

- Garbled text (JJ4H2GDEF19DT2CXU1C2Y24VU7WD kinda thing) appearing.

- messages with no text not having attachments recognised.

- Sprint subject lines (possibly, testing needed. we have no Sprint in the uk to test with)

Please get in touch if you're experiencing any unusual effects as a result of this upgrade. forum thread

search and toprated

The search and toprated pages have been updated, so they work much more reliably, especially the search. Please get in touch if you are having any problems.

and loads of new themes

Many thanks to everyone who took part, and those who helped with the very difficult task of judging the entries and choosing a winner from the excellent designs submitted. We wish everyone could win something, but we do only have one phone and a few runners up prizes to give away, so without further ado:

• First place: Hand Made (preview) by monkeypunk
  Wins a Motorola V600 cameraphone - congratulations!


• Second place: Mohack Coblog (preview) by afternoon
  A very close second - wins a fantastic Pete Fowler Toy


• Third place: City/Countrysnap (preview) by Basseq
  An equally close third - wins a fantastic Pete Fowler Toy


• Special Award: kadamontaga wins a copy of the excellent Street Art for his amazing number of submissions - thanks Dave, and incredible amount of work must have gone into that!

You can see all the entries and their authors here, and all the new themes are available for you to select from your 'edit profile' page.

Enjoy the new themes, and thanks again to all involved.

Congratulations to mikey for this fabulous photo

Our congratulations and a Sony Ericsson K700i handset go to mikey for this fabulous photo. Well done mikey, and well done everyone else who took part, some excellent photos from you all. In fact, it went so well, we'll probably do it again next time we have a phone to give away. Your thoughts and ideas are, as always, welcome in the forum.

The images from the fourteen competition moblog are on display at the Sony Ericsson Art of Imaging site here

Win great prizes!

The first competition we are doing in association with Sony Ericsson and their new 'Art of Imaging' Site at http://www.theartofimaging.com

The theme of this moblog competition is "fourteen days", take your own meaning from that. Send strong and vital images in from your futurephone; something to stand alongside images taken by celebrities like Irvine Welsh and Helena Christensen, who are also taking part.

The best entries win tickets to the opening night on the 16th of September at Camdens' Proud Gallery (You can come hang out with Mat and Alfie, who cares about Irvine Welsh anyway), and the winner will also recieve a shiny new Sony Ericsson K700i.

Send us your best entry, send as many as you like! And tell your mates, anyone can join in.

The shared moblog for the competition is here.

Our second competition is a contest to redesign moblog UK. You need some design and CSS skills, but it seems that among us there are a good load with teh l33t sk177z. If your design powers are great, but you have problems with css, asking in the forum might be a good way to get a little friendly help and advice.

This contest is running until the end of September, and you need to :

Design and CSS a complete re-skin of Moblog UK. The logo, everything are open to your mad design and creative juice.

The design must be an original work, and although you will maintain your copyright of your submitted design, moblogUK will have rights to implement your submissions on the site.

The winner receives a sim free Motorola V600, a wonderful little toy, and the two runners up receive Pete Fowler toys! Can't say fairer than that.

You can grab a sample CSS Style sheet here and you can test your design by passing theme=http://yourhost.com/stylesheet.css to any page on the site, or you can download pages and work on your own machine.

Good luck!

comment editing

Comment editing should now work properly. Our apologies about that, and many thanks to Arlo for pointing it out.

and a metric tonne of new things

Finally, we're on the new server, and most shiny and exciting it is too. You may have lost a message or two if you were unlucky enough to send one during the ten minutes or so the changeover actually happened, but everything seems to be in order now. Please get in touch if you're experiencing any problems.

Also, new server - new domain! We are now the proud owners of moblog.co.uk. The old domains will still work, but they'll redirect you to the new one seamlessly. NOTE: submission emails have not changed - you still send them to moblg.net

New stuff!

Comment editing! Loads of you had been asking for this, and it's finally here - you can edit comments you made while you were logged in - no more typos stuck on the page now.

Smaller emails - sorry about this, but we've had to restrict the maximum size of your emails. As the site grows, so does the space it takes up, and it's been growing pretty fast recently. This size limit won't affect the vast majority of you, but it will help keep the server's disk use under control a bit.

PLEASE NOTE: As of now, the largest an entire email can be is 256Kb Any mails larger than that will be dropped by the server.

More comment options - you can now select to only have people on your friends list add a comment. This seemed to be the next natural option from what was already there, and there'll be more privacy related features to come later.

There have also been a swathe of minor bug fixes and enhancements.

And, if all that wasn't enough, Joe Archer has donated another theme, the clean and minimalist Bluelines. Thanks Joe!

and a small fix
Joe Archer has contributed a new theme, the dark and clean lined Graygraff. We like it, thanks Joe.

The 'latest images' page will now behave properly when you page back through posts older than 48 hours. Apologies about that one, it somehow slipped through the net.

SandStar

'SandStar' by the enigmatic Chopin... (preview)

4rthur!

An 4rthur-based theme, for all you 4rthurians out there. (preview)

Kindly donated by munkt0n

some nifty new things

A few pages have been updated and improved:

latest image page: much more sensible now, safe from being piled up with multiple image posts; and adjustable time based display - only show images you've missed.

'edit profile' page: see 'general settings' for two new options, the ability to hide your moblog from the shared pages; and a switch to let us (and other people) know that your moblog is creative commons licensed.

This last option has helped in making the search page more flexible, and more useful, provided people remember to set it! (note: this will not attach a license to your moblog)

Plus some small changes to some other pages to accomodate the new features. enjoy!