Posts from original PHP diary

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.

Not really a fun day so far. A bit of hassle with Donna Castle paying my rent - mainly my fault. And generally not fun in university today.

On to hopefully happier things, it’s Ballroom Bronze and Silver classes today. Hopefully I’ll be able to spin turn without accidentally doing a V6 today.

The classes were fun. Bronze was especially fun because Camilla as there and she’s just generally cheerful. Silver was fun because I actually managed to do what they were doing (a fishtail in the Quickstep) as well as getting to dance with Alice which is just sooo easy.

FFg64 (a Galaxia player) is making a Galaxia comic. Wow! Amazing! Like cool! Yeah!

Wow, what a surprisingly fun evening. First, 3 hours of team practice. Managed to mess up Waltz and Quickstep completely with both Anne Marie and Phyllis by getting confused by the V6 and overturning all my spin turns. Some of time was also spent chatting to Jennifer about how annoying Andy (the team captain) can be - especially to beginners (ironic really). And then (and this is the fun bit) I went to a casino with John, Alex Kostas and Jennifer.

Scarily posh place. In fact three of changed into our ballroom shoes because trainers are definitely allowed in. Didn’t actually do any gambling if you were wondering - just kept having free soft drinks. For the record: Blackjack $5 minimum bet, 3 card Poker $10 ante and Roulette $1 minimum bet.

I got a message from Shaun as well. He just asked if I was still alive…