Archive for August, 2005

Finally got stats logging at least half fixed for Olsen Twins Planet. There is still information missing, namely the dailys before August 12th and information for the visits and page views but uniques seems to be intact.

Uniques so far in August: 11,000! That is hot. Rawice at it’s peak was doing something like 15,000 a month and we are only on the 19th. It’s mostly people looking for pictures but traffic is traffic. Might get rid of AdSense and put a graphic advertiser on there, need to review my AdSense reports.

I knew I would be posting more but I didn’t think I would be posting this much today. Anyway. I do like RegisterFly, I know their system has problems but overall I like it and I although I used to think it was a little add-on service heavy, after a few weeks of using GoDaddy I realise it really isn’t.

But the reason I have been using GoDaddy is the current problem I am having. Their automatic PayPal payments are down so you have to open a support ticket and they send you a payment request. So I asked them to let me pay $32.

They replied back asking for my PayPal email address which I supplied and they wrote back saying they had credited my account. Sure enough $32 in my account but no payment had been sent by me. I’m a nice guy (but more importantly with an A grade a-level in law I know it’s technically illegal to just use the money :P, well sort of) so I told them.

They replied back saying they would send a money request. That was like a week ago. I’ve just sent them another reply pointing out that I still haven’t actually been given the chance to pay them.

CNet have launched a UK version of their site. This could be great news. They have a lot of product reviews and stuff but most of it is US based. I know ZDNet have a UK site already and they use the same content but hopefully with CNet having more of a UK base now, they will be reviewing more stuff.

A-level results in: A, B, B, C, D (Law, ICT, general studies, media, business). I rule!

Well stage one of my plan was successfully – I got a letter from UCAS this morning confirming my place at Leeds Uni which means my a-level results must be fairly decent. It also makes finding them out irrelevant.

This is an extention to the post I made earlier – which was lost and nobody except me has seen as the blog wasn’t liked or anything :P. Basically, I created a script to import all the posts from Nerd Federation which didn’t do the categories right first time so I had to delete all the posts and do it again. Unfortunatly this resulted in the loss of my original post.

If anyone else wants to convert from pLog to WordPress let me know, no point letting the script go to waste :). I have been working on it for a while but this afternoon I decided to finally knuckle down and get it done. Also because I will probably be doing plenty of blogging tommorow as my exam results come out.

The reason I switched was for a few reasons. First of all, I really like WordPress. pLog was a great script and it had lot of functions especially for media. But I didn’t like the wysiwyg editor, I know you can disable it but meh. I was always editing the HTML anyway and it created code I didn’t like. WordPress is all HTML anyway.

Secondly, was psychological for me. I had a format in pLog, four paragraphs minimum, two for the first section and the rest in the extended section. I think it’s like OCD or something 😛 (the emoticons are also cool on WordPress). The result was I couldn’t be bothered to blog much. Won’t be doing that on WordPress. It’s all one thing anyway and generates previews automatically.

Nerd Federation will still be online of course, I may even occasionally post on it. I am keeping it up for several reasons which include the fact it still (and still will) host the video files, it hosts all of the image files for the old posts which haven’t been transfered over (the images themselves, nor will they be), it has the comments which didn’t transfer over either, I have loads of links there as it was my blog for over a year and it also has Deni’s posts on there which I’m not transfering obviously because this is my personal blog.

So yeah hopefully I should be blogging more now. This is now my “official” blog as it were and will be filled with far more crap than Nerd Fed probably :P. I’ll be posting tommorow for sure.

Well actually, much less. It’s like 21 hours until I get my exam results. Problem is though, whatever happens, there is no way it can turn out good. Of course there is a difference between how bad it can turn out.

I’m really hoping I get the grades to get into Leeds Uni. We shall see tommorow.

I’m playing around with the Shoutcast server at the moment. I actually managed to get it set up ok although I can’t get my broadcast client to connect now. Anyway, I actually had more problems shutting the thing down then I did setting it up.

In the end I managed to do it using the kill process. If you go into your SSH you can type kill 56364. Kill has to be all in lower case! Also the number, obviously isn’t the one you want. What you need to do is look up the PID in Web Host Manager – go down to system health on the menu and select show current running processes.

That will list them all so just do a find using your web browser for the directory you installed it to or the filename and on the left will be listed the PID which you can use to kill the process.

Thanks for dragging up old memories Ricky. He got my thinking about my old magazine which hasn’t been published in well over a year now I think, but I miss it.

Well, the whole converting my blog isn’t really working out. I might just copy the first post over so that I have the archives going back to that date :P. Hmm, anyway, so I might as well starting blogging my new stuff.

At the moment I am waiting for Buffy Talk to reach 500 members so I can make a good “hurray” post. The reason is, we are over the hill. As I read on the web hosting forum that spawned from Webmaster-Talk, “the first 250-500 are the hardest after that it grows exponentially.”

So once I am over 500 I am hoping it will continue to grow even faster. There is a big difference between the number of posts on Buffy Talk and the number of posts on the two major Buffy forums (at least according to Authority Forums), BT has 37,000 whereas the biggest have 522,000 and 282,000.