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I know what you’re thinking: 2 posts in 2 days, this surely cant last long? Well hopefully it will the reason for this blog is that I was given today a backup of CPB-Network.org which was taken in May 2008. For those of you who do not know: CPB-Network was the name under whichme and Stu most recently ran our webhosting and development business, however in early 2008 we decided to focus on software development and website design rather than hosting.

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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I have just upgraded to Wordpress 2.6 (like I said I would in the last post). This is pointless news because you – my blog readers – don’t need to know and probably won’t notice any difference but alas I felt like writing it down and filing it under Site Updates just because I can.

:-)

OK we’re almost at the one week stage of the lifespan of this blog so I’m trying to add more content to it :-) Lets start with a realisation I had yesterday: – Its less than a month until exam results day – I’m so anxious about that, that I might even see if I can find a countdown timer that I can stick it up here and keep track of the seconds remaining :-P. If you’re curious as to what results I will be getting: head over to the about me page.

Next, let me say that I’m not too happy with the Buy me a Beer links so I think I may change to having one link to the side of pages rather than on every post – not many of you have bought me a beer yet and that is disappointing :-(

As I am writing this there is a bar to the top of the page informing me that WP 2.6 is available so I guess I will upgrade my blog to the new version once this post is finished.

I’m still not too happy with the theme used on this blog at the mo so if any of you out there are good at that sort of thing and would like to make me a unique one please feel free :-)

This post is possibly beginning to sound very mixed up – that’s because I am writing things down as I think of them irregardless of whether the order makes sense.

Ah cool fact (well I think it is): pages from this site are now indexed by Google.

http://www.google.co.uk/search?client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-GB%3Aofficial&channel=s&hl=en&q=site%3Ayoureadmyblog.info&meta=&btnG=Google+Search

Googlebot last successfully accessed your home page on Jul 12, 2008

Pages from your site are included in Google’s index.

I do need to fix some errors in my sitemap though, apparently.

That’s about all I can think to say for the now, except I guess I’ll give you a brief insight into my day:

I have absolutely nothing to do

There…that was my blog entry #7 for July 16th 2008…enjoy

Craig

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