Jason “Will” McMillen, the former site manager of Pascal Game Development has launched a new downloadable magazine for those of us who are into developing games with Pascal.

You can get the first edition of Pascal Gamer at the new website at http://www.pascalgamer.com.

Get your free copy of Pascal Gamer at http://www.pascalgamer.com

Here’s a little nugget which may help you if, you’ve tightened up the security on your blog only to find somethings (in this case, the flash uploader) don’t work. (more…)

Just a little note which may save someone some time. If you’re using MantisBT and are having problems with getting the graphs and visual captcha working (even though you have GD installed), read on. (more…)

Well well, what a bloody farce! Upgrade to AVG Internet Security (the business version) and ICQ stops working… if you’re having problems with ICQ being unable to connect (the incredibly informative ‘Oops, something went wrong’ message), read on. (more…)

It gives me great pleasure to announce that the fourth Pascal Game Development Competition, The PGD Annual 2009, has kicked off this weekend.

If you’re into Pascal, and developing games, why not give it a whirl. Head over to the competition website at PGDAnnnual.com for more information, and to sign up and enter.

For anyone that is using the Advanced Custom Field Widget, I can confirm that it is compatible with version 2.8 of WordPress.

I have a few plans for things I want to include in version 0.6 but I’m a bit tied up with work and one or two other things at the moment. As soon as my current urgent commitments are finished, I plan on knuckling down and getting 0.6 finished off and released.

By ‘popular’ demand, The Outer Reaches – The Second Beginning is going to be reset while we are finalising season 3. The reset will be taking place on Friday 19th June. The database will be reset and signups opened. The restart will take place 1 weeks later on Saturday 27th June.

UPDATE:- After further discussions with players, this planned restart will not now take place. When agreement is reached regarding a restart, we’ll post details on The Nebula

This is a bit of a long shot… if you are a regular visitor with your own blog… do you have any information about this IP address (208.50.101.153)?

The reason I’m asking is because it’s linked to a company called Global Crossing, and today at around 11am server time, this address and at least one other connected to Global Crossing scraped my site… absolutely every link was followed.

So… if you know anything about this IP address and they’ve visited you’re site, I’d love to know about it. And of course, if you are anything to do with Global Crossing… why in the hell have you scraped my site? Or, if you are the person who scraped it, why? I shall be googling for my own content, and if I find it reproduced anywhere without my permission, I’ll be coming down on you with the full force of the copyright laws available to me… given these IPs reside stateside, the laws are pretty dam good. You have been warned!

Update:- Well, well…. another scrape… at the moment it’s only partial, this time from 78.159.112.96 a company called netdirekt (German), and who are they partnered with… Global Crossing!

Version 0.1 of BOMScan has just been released. BOMScan is a little tool I wrote to scan files for Unicode Byte Order Markers (or BOMs).
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Well, here’s something I never thought would happen… a knitting pattern… on my blog… and whats more, it’s all my own work

I actually only started knitting earlier this year, so at the most, 2 months ago… the reason… Sackboy. I found a knitting pattern by Alan Dart to make your own Sackboy, so after demanding my mum teach me how to knit, I got busy and knitted a Sackboy, who now lives with Spirit. But he was getting cold at night so she demanded I knit him some winter warmers.
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