Hi all, just in case you’re an infrequent player of your Sony console and you’ve got a Playstation Network account you might like to read this.

It appears that PSN was hacked between April 17th and April 19th this year (2011), and account details obtained. Sony aren’t sure whether credit card details were obtained so their advice is, assume they were and keep an eye on your card statements and credit reports.

I can’t remember what triggered my first encounter with what I can only describe as the cult phenomenon of Minecraft but I do remember it was the video on the Minecraft Website. That was it… I was hooked. Here you’ll find a rough review of the game and some screenies of my most adventurous crafting, mixing redstone with minecarts to create a fairly funky (in my humble opinion) minecart station system on our multiplayer server (no, it’s not a public server), so read on for my thoughts about this excellent life stealer. (more…)

Quick update on ACFW Version 1.0… I’ve not stopped development, but unfortunately it does take a back seat when I’m busy and I’ve been really busy lately. Most of the backend is done, including the configuration conversion which handles the pre 1.0 configuration and should handle updates to the configuration gracefully in the future.

All that’s left to do is actually create the tables and forms that are going to be used to manage the configuration. I can’t remember what I’ve posted about features, but it includes it’s own RSS feed reader that looks at the ACFW RSS feed produce by my blog, so you’ll get the latest news about ACFW right there in your WordPress admin pages, along with links to my wiki etc. for easy access to the latest documentation.

Well, it’s been too long since I last posted… February in fact… *eeek* oh well… thats work and study for you… so what have I been up to? (more…)

pmG are offering you the chance to get your hands on messiahStudio for an amazing $10 for the standard edition and $40 (normally $1195) for the professional edition. But there is a catch… it’s an experiment in viral marketing so we have to get a whole bunch of people to buy it to get it for this price… that said the target has nearly been reached.

So, if you want to experiment with 3D animation on what appears to be an excellent bit of software, visit the store page here. Payment is through PayPal and there is a limit of 4 copies (mix and match standard and pro) per customer.

Even if you don’t buy a copy, spread the word

By popular demand I have released a slightly modified version of ACFW (in the form of version 0.99) which processes shortcodes that are contained in the generated content. The latest version can of course be downloaded from the WordPress Plugin Directory.

Well, it’s been a while since I last posted something other than a release notice for one of my WordPress plugins, so here goes… (more…)

This is a minor bug fix release that addresses an issue when using the content generator that resulted in the linefeeds being mishandled and displayed as ‘n’.

Thanks to Deena for letting me know about this issue.

The latest version, as always, can be downloaded from the WordPress plugin directory.

Just in case I have regular readers

I’d like to wish everyone a Happy New Year for 2011, may it be bright and prosperous for you all.

Time for another update on the progress of version 1.0.0. (more…)