Ive started testing out a new comments system on the blog.
Rather than using the standard comments system supplied by WordPress I thought I would investigate a reccent popular solution called Intense Debate. Its by Automatic, you know, those clever chappies behind WordPress, Askimet and Poll Daddy.
Anyways, im hoping it will be alot more user friendy and will encourage more comments! Let me know what you think 
Well I have just had my next (not so) bright idea. I have decided to enter the flash games portal business. I see it as a good way to compliment my flash games interest and passion.
I have just gone out and bought the following domains:
http://www.worldsbestflashgames.com
http://www.worldsbestpuzzle.com
http://www.worldsbestrpg.com
http://www.worldsbestshooter.com
http://www.worldsbestdressup.com
http://www.worldsbesttowerdefence.com
As you can see I have decided to go for a niche genre with each of the domains. For now they all point to the main domain http://www.worldsbestflashgames.com but hopefully I will give them all their own space soon.
As for their implementation I plan on using Worpress as the back-end with the Gallery mod for the Thematic theme (the same setup im using on http://www.artificialgames.co.uk).
Ill report back when its all setup and I actually have some games to play!
A while back I changed my hosting over from the worse than dismal streamline.net over to the much better slicehost service. Slicehost offer alot more power by giving your own server with root access. All well and good if you are knowing what you are doing in Linux, i dont, so I struggled for some time getting Apache and php and all the rest running nice.
Well all was fine and dandy for a while but suddenly a month or so back I started having alot of drop-outs and poor service. After much pain and forum posting I finally found out the route cause of the problem was that Apache was using too much memory and just bringing everything to a crawl on my 256meg slice. After much more pain I got the alternative nginx web server going, and touch wood everything seems to be running nice and smooth again, yey!
I would like to give a big thank you to this article which was invaluable: http://www.mensk.com/webmaster-toolbox/perfect-ubuntu-hardy-nginx-mysql5-php5-wordpress/
