Well it looks like another year is over. It’s been up and down to be brutally honest. Ended quite well, with a far more positive attitude for the future than last year.
Learned lots of cool new things. Built my own site, and it was good until the hardware decided it had seen better days and gave up the ghost. It’s still working, and doing good service back in it’s more usual role of network file and print server, but the demands of serving a website and forums to the world was too much for it’s tired 10 year old ass.. looolz

What else.. hmmm.. didn’t really have a structure when I started, so I’m just going to ramble on for a bit.

Gave up with console repairs earlier.. about march.. the new gen consoles are not the fun of the older ones.
Took a more pro-active role within the irc communities than I had previously, helping on the debian helplines and generally making a nuisance of myself everywhere else.
Lots of work with dvd ripping and copying with linux.. nothing illegal just using the existing playback decryption tools and codecs to enable the bypassing of even the most complicated copy protection.. the cracking of the psl file dumping was a notable first.. nearly got me in trouble, so don’t go looking for info about how to do it.. I took it all away.
Came close to getting shut down completely in April after a major panic with a dvd ripper I was involved with.
Summer was mostly spent on the coding of my website, with a few nice days out to Mancheater and Liverpool.

Since about October it’s all gone rather quiet.. just the recurring server maintenance contracts and a few pc builds. Haven’t been to see any bands this year.. oh hang about.. forgot the Bolton Metal Alliance huge thing.. That was pretty good, but because of the vast alcohol intake I don’t remember much about it.. soould be able to find the date for that.. It was the last night anybody was allowed to smoke inside anywhere. When I find a flyer maybe a scan and post somewhere…

Ongoing projects? Currently working on a minimal linux desktop system installation with all GUI applications. Restricted to the old hardware having 32MB ram.. so far there is a nice browser, irc and im apps, a burner (not happy with that one.. it is very slow) text and programming editors and a very simple photo/paint editor.. Installation iso currently runs in at 11mb, and with everything running takes around 16mb. Should be bloody great on those really ancient p2 laptops that run windows 95

Well there we have it. Looks like the end of an era for the forums so I thought a blog would be a good idea.

Best wishes to anybody who reads this.. and a

VERY HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS 2008 TO ALL XXX XD