Entries from January 2006 ↓

People using emulators to complete old school computer console games in the fastest times - and the videos to watch them all!

http://bisqwit.iki.fi/nesvideos/

Pretty cool - but one for the geeks in the crowd

Donald Rumsfeld says to George Bush, “Sir, I’m sorry to have to report that we’ve lost 3 Brazilian soldiers in Iraq”.

“That’s sad new Don” Says Bush. “So, how many IS a ‘brazilian’ exactly?”

Yeah, well, seems a bit pointless now, but all the best in 2006 folks.

I’ll whack up the resolutions eventually (so much for less procrastination … and for more work@work for that matter, oh well …)

At least I seem to be blogging more (or at least continuing) in 2006. Here’s hoping it continues.

Yes. It did.

Behold the mighty WordPress! Blogger no more, I’m now rolling my own Blog using WordPress on a funky new Linux hosting platform over at Dreamhost

My 1&1 subscription was coming up for renewal, and rather than spend £140 over the course of the year to be on ASP.Net servers that I really wasn’t using for anything more than static content, I decided to have a look around and see what I could find. What really swung it for Dreamhost, aside from being listed as a hosting provider on WordPress, was the fact that in addition to the decent package offering (including unlimited domain management, 20GB disk storage etc.), I found a discount code online to apply a $97 discount to the cost of hosting for a year, so it only actually cost me $22! (£12). Result!!

Not found anything I can’t do with the Control Panel yet, transition across was smooth. WordPress 2.0, recently released, offers a very simple straight forward way of migrating your blogger blog. Highly worthwhile.

So, time to play with Linux, PHP5 and MySQL (unlimited mySQL databases - hoorah!). Always good to have some open source strings to my bow. Ruby On Rails is powering lots of the Web 2.0 Hype, so is prob worth playing with too.