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Tuesday, 28 June 2005

Sabbatical

I've decided to take a break from updating this site. There's a lot going on in my real life right now and I need to recharge my batteries.

Monday, 30 May 2005

Twos Complement

Unbelievably, another year has passed and this site is now two years old. A lot has happened over the past year. I was threatened with legal action, SitePoint recruited me to write for them and I decided to diversify away from Windows.

Sunday, 19 September 2004

Lost Opportunities

For the first time since I started this site in May 2003, I have exercised self-censorship and removed some content. I have deleted the articles Opportunity Of A Lifetime and Opportunity Knocks and all comments associated with them. What started as a name and shame exercise in response to a piece of unsolicited e-mail, has turned into something rather unpleasant.

Sunday, 30 May 2004

We Are One

It's hard for me to believe, but it's a year today since I first clicked the Publish button in CityDesk and uploaded this site. Actually, that's not quite true because I did have a preview site hidden behind a teaser for quite a while, which John Conners managed to pick up from his referrer logs when I inadvertently cliked on a link to his site!

Wednesday, 17 September 2003

RSS Feeds Upgraded

I've upgraded all of the RSS feeds on this site to RSS 2.0 format. I've done this because I had a few comments that my posts were doubling up in some news aggregators after I edited a post after publishing it.

Sunday, 10 August 2003

Back In Business

I've restored the comments and feedback page functionality to this site by creating a new MySQL database. Frankly, I was tired of waiting for my hosting provider to fix the problem, which has been dragging on for over a fortnight now.

Monday, 28 July 2003

Your Patience Is Appreciated

The more observant amongst you will have noticed that this site has been down since Thursday. Unfortunately my hosting company have been having problems with a rogue script running amok on their web server.