I thought I’d compile a quick FAQ surrounding the events:

So you’ve thought of some interesting new things to post?

Well, no, not particularly – but some things are happening which I might deem postworthy at sometime.

Are you going to post more frequently?

With the best will in the world I hope I will; but probably not.

So why bring the blog back now?

I like having somewhere to occasionally write things down and I’m trying to get myself known in the world of IT security. I’ve also just finished Uni for christmas so have had some spare time to set up now that I’m not stressed with work anymore.

Why did the blog go down for a month?

Long story….short version = old server supplier went out of business so I had to get a new server.

Are you okay Craig? How’s life?

Thanks for asking – I’m good – as I say I’ve been a bit stressed with lots and lots of Uni work but I’m managing fine with it in general.

Any other questions?

To help with this, lets use the almighty BULLET POINT

• Firstly, you’ll notice I’m using a “cleaner” more professional looking and easier to use theme.
• I updated the photo’s section, for some reason it had lost the link with facebook and wasnt sync-ing properly
• Drag Racer – Basically, Groomi told me that if I mention it over here he would mention ScreenStamp! on his blog and because I’m too lazy to give it a post of it’s own I’ll integrate it into this one -  The game consists of buying and tuning cars and racing them against your friends, its a good little app and is available on Facebook @ http://apps.facebook.com/drag_racer
• openSUSE – After trial of many many different operating systems, my Netbook now has openSUSE on it and is working great, it wasnt the easiest OS to install due to the Aspire not having a CD Drive but if anyone wants a step by step guide to getting it working drop me a line – I’m also thinking of putting an extra 1GB RAM into it.

Thats all for now, I’m going to be helping out with a site recode for a friend over the next few months; so keep an eye out for tutorials and snippets of code I write that I think might be useful to others will be posted here.

Craig

Credit goes to http://inanis.net

The idea was never really rolled out on a big scale because of the events that were to follow and the subsequent closing of the business. It was nice though to look back and see what could have been and delve into some old code.

From what I remember (and can see from the backup) I was working on a new client backend for the website, whilst at the same time designing a website with Stu for a customer. Stu was fiddling with the idea of building a mafia based RPG and was rebuilding an old version of Asgard to suit. And we were both working on an MSN Bot written in PHP based on the Blobsy Framework (affectionately or arrogantly named: Stueybot).

Looking back: one of the reasons why very few of our projects ever caught on was probably due to us never really investing 100% effort into each one and being of the mindset; if I do 500 things one of them will work.

Anyway, I guess this is a random blog but I hope you enjoyed the nice little history lesson and are a little wiser as to what I was doing more than a year ago. I might at some stage rewirte an MSN Bot depending on the extent of my boredom – perhaps in C this time?

Meanwhile I finally got around to upgrading to WP 2.7.1 and I have to see I quite like the new interface

Craig
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Anyway, today I have added my most recent facebook status update to the top of the menu panel as suggested by Groomi. You can still view lots of my recent status updates on the My Facebook page (above).

I have also added a new plugin called Fotobook which imports my photos and photos of me from facebook and displays them on this blog.

http://www.youreadmyblog.info/photos/

Craig

Edit –

I removed the Christmas theme as I disliked it and reverted back to something similar to the original. Except with Ice/Snow in the header – as it’s winter and cold

http://www.youreadmyblog.info/my-facebook/

And i’ll be using this post as a test to see if things get added to my facebook wall

Ciao

So what can I say about One.com so far? Well obviously I wasnt expecting miracles for £10 per year and I havent received any – its a nice service and I’m happy the only gripe I have is with lack of control, being used to having root access and then moving to having virtually no control over anything is a big step. The control panel does offer some nice options though – it’s one’s own cp (not cpanel). It allows you to set up subdomains and mail accounts – only one ftp account and mysql database is given but heh how many can I need for a blog?

There is also no option given for addon/parked domains which is fair enough, I have set up CNAME’s with my registrar for my  other domains to make them point to here.

So overall I’m happy with the new set up it may just take some getting used to I’m sure my opinion will change over the coming days/weeks/hours; I’ll keep you informed and I’ll post some server specs and interesting things I can gather later.

If anyone notices anything out of the ordinary since the move please comment here and let me know.

Craig

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For a little over £10 inc VAT I am subscribed to One.com for a year, this is a very reasonable price in my opinion and making the move will ensure that I no longer need to worry about keeping the server running, and more crucially, paying for it. I will be able to concentrate more on posting blogs (and my studies :P).

The VPS I have been using was becoming wasteful as all it was hosting is this blog and a few sites for friends – in my opinion – not enough to warrant a VPS. I will however miss the sense of freedom and control you get from private servers but the money saved outweighs the miss and I will install Linux on my PC again to play with .

Now to the important stuff – obviously I have to move the blog over to the new server and change the nameservers (at time of writing I’m still on the VPS) So you may notice some downtime whilst I do this but all-in-all hopefully the site will be back up and functioning by the end of the day.