Tag Archives: web

Essential site maintenance

It may be that I am Keith Neilson will be unavailable for a bit this afternoon as I’m performing some fairly routine maintenance and spring cleaning. Not to worry though, if all goes as planned we should be back and transmitting as normal later on in the day.
Wish me luck.
M out

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Site Redesign Underway

I am in the process of redesigning and re-organising my blog. I have a completely custom built theme pretty much ready to go, hopefully I’ll be able to offer it for download once I’m finished tweaking it.

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The EVE Online Wave pack

Or should that be Wave front? We’ve already got a Blog Pack, and a Tweet Fleet. Anyway whatever its called its a kind of rolling conversation on Google’s ‘Replacement for email’ which they have called Wave.

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Another Non-blog about COSMOS?

Whilst I’m sure the tech-heads amongst the EVE playerbase will be gushing all over the latest dev blog, which delves into the technical underpinnings fo the new COSMOS social networking system, for th rest of us its pretty boring. The most interesting information is in the diagram.

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GameScribe Hacked

An unknown hacker, calling himself VAD3R, has attacked GameScribe, the hosted blogging service for gamers.

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GameScribe Open Beta, and a Contest

As I think I may have mentioned, Gamescribe is a new hosted blogging service built along the lines of Wordpress.com (it even uses the same software) designed specifically with gamers in mind. Read on for more info…

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Barnett, Goldacre, and LBC Update

The Botherer (AKA John Walker of Rock, Paper, Shotgun.) has been following the events surrounding the subject of this post more closely than I and has posted a concise summary on his blog.
I’m beginning to find the behaviour of LBC, Barnett and others quite despicable and would urge anyone who advertises with LBC to [...]

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Let’s Crown Stephen Fry King Of Twitter

I’ve been caught by the twitter bug, as you might have gathered (I’m @mandrill in case you were wondering), and it seems the rest of the world is coming with me (unless they were there already).
@stephenfry, yes that Stephen Fry, has a twitter account and is currently the third most followed twitterer with 120,000 (and [...]

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Spotify – An Introduction and A Contest

I have discovered Spotify.
First things first. This is not an ad, Ihave not been paid to post about Spotify, I don’t work for Spotify, and I have no other reason for posting about it other than I think its a great idea.

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Presenting The Twitter Collaborative Fiction Experiment.

I had a mad idea whilst pluttering around on the intertubes this evening.
Collaborative fiction through the medium of Twitter.
I must be nuts.
Imagine, if you will a story told a whole load of different people, in chunks of 135* characters or less (including spaces). It has the potential to produce a collective outpouring of imagination of [...]

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