The site I mentioned I was working on in a previous post is still being worked on albeit more slowly. The actual news is that I decided to buy hosting and a domain for pretty dirt cheap from tengun.net and go daddy respectively. Go daddy are having a sale on .info domains so I grabbed tehdurka.info for about £0.64 in total for a year. I don’t really think you can get a better deal than that. Hosting equates to about £1.04 per month with PHP and MySQL although register_globals is off so I have to change quite a lot of code to make it work properly but at the same time it makes my code better and more secure so its all good really. I reckon that it costs a lot more than £1.04 a month just to leave my computer on during the day (electricity costs) so it seems like a very good deal for me and it means the site will always be online and working at a good speed so its good for the users as well.

I might see if I can get some Google adsense going to pay these little costs, I dunno whether they would accept me though. I also would like to revamp the site both visually and code wise but I’m going to put most of that off till after my exams since I’ve been told teachers go very easy on us for the remainder of the term. I also ought to do some more university research as well and try and pick out some more places to apply to, I’d like to feel ready by the time it comes to writing personal statements etc. I also need to go on some open days but they tend to be during the holidays so I can’t do that yet.

Ok that really is it for today, I seem to have gone a bit overdrive for some reason.

I haven’t been posting mainly because I’ve been working on a website, the intention of this website being to allow kids in my school to play games on the school computers. The school’s internet is filtered by the ISP and its pretty crap really. Lots of times I’ve been trying to do research for something, King Lear for example, when I click a link to a site only to find it is blocked for being “pornographic” or for being a “hate speech” site. It really, really isn’t. What is perhaps stranger is some ways of getting round the filters. One way I used a while ago that seems to have stopped working now is to use Google’s cache, that used to work quite well until recently when it is very temperamental. Another odd one is sometimes clicking a link to a site will enable you to see it but if you type it into the address bar it won’t. It’s all very odd.

So, this site has been set up to get around the measures in place to enable people to play games at school. I’ve put a lot of work into it to make it nice and easy to manage and it also gave me something to try and do using PHP and MySQL. The basics of it are layed out, all that is left to do is to make it look nice, which may or may not be easy, I don’t know. It would be quite cool if the word got out and soon all IT lessons were turned into chaos with teachers unable to prevent kids from playing games. I think that would be pretty awesome, a socialist uprising to take over the school.

Or not.

We can all dream, can’t we?

Link to the site: here. By the way, the reason I have used the word malarky everywhere is to avoid saying the word games, as that will result in an automatic block it would appear. According to the firefox spell checker that isn’t how you spell malarky, it should have an e after the k. But that spelling is stupid so I’m changing it to mine.

I really enjoyed the first one from this guy, really great tower defence game and I think he’s done it again. This new one has a different idea, with the creeps having no target to get to but you have to stop them from overrunning the area by keeping their numbers below 100. I got to like level 52, nothing special really. You can play it here.