Well since I already had the domain I decided I’d put it to use. Viewing my journal should redirect you to OliverBrown.me.uk which should display my journal properly. It’s probably buggy though so watch out…

I really think I should write something exciting for my inaugural entry. The fact that I did this at all is quite amazing. I’ve thought about it a few times but kept deciding I could write my own that was better; but never got round to it. Well I could always just embed it into a website of my own if I wanted to.

Odd coincidence. I spell checked my entry and it came up with “ve” (from “I’ve”) as an error. “Ve” is a gender-neutral personal pronoun used by Greg Egan; an author whose books I’m reading at the moment. Very good books by the way.

Just added a new Artwork page!

More people playing QWar. Whoopee!

Wahhhh, frustrating! I used to run a website with a decent amount of traffic, but no serious way to monetize it. Now I have a way to monetize it but not enough traffic. Google AdSense rocks by the way (although my click-thru rate is suspiciously high).

I put QWar on the forums at OrbWars. Within minutes, Thundercat had set a high score. Hopefully someone will try and beat him and they’ll be a little feud. Either way it should get popularity up a bit (at the very least it’ll fill out the highscore table a bit).

Not only are QWar and Supremacy now online, but you can now have QWar on your own site, complete with your own high score table! I’ll be putting a demonstration of this on this site soon.

Galaxia has a nice new front page with a background image I made myself. I’ve also now got Google AdSense links on there which is cool. Progress on Galaxia is going slowly, mainly because I don’t have enough time to work on it (my life suddenly seems very busy).

I also decided to put the AdSense link on here, mainly as a way to get the site indexed by Google

I’ve decided to restart this thing concentrating solely on my online activities. Which seem to be increasing a lot lately. This will also serve as the news part of the main page when I write it.

Just for the record, it was Martin Kirk’s and Andrew Sherwood’s birthday yesterday.

I now have 6 referrals on Clickthru, two of which are earning me something. I’m up to about $0.40 a day between the two main domains, and I’m now earning Clickthrus faster than I can spend them. So I’ll have to start using the other domains (with much lower CPC earnings :o( )

I ended up talking to Rachel, Sara’s friend, last night for a while (just a little while). Unfortunately I don’t have the clever privacy thing setup yet (since this is all still file based and manually edited :o( ) so I won’t be telling anymore. Sorry.

I had an absolutely pathetic mid-term test today. Complex Variables. It was open book and the lecturer kept giving hints throughout the test until he eventually told us the answer to one of the questions and gave us extra time to write it down!

Then onto the ULU Salsa class. More girls than guys there (as usual) but fewer people in general since some universities have already broken up. I got to know one of the guys there called Jeremy. As a weird coincidence he’s the equal opportunities officer for Queen Mary’s.