Been beavering away on HWDN today. I'm currently completely re-working the underlying code, making it much simpler and a lot lighter. I'm also adding support for jQuery and adding Fancybox, so you can view blog images in a nice little popup div (try clicking the image below).

HWDN will also be going social, I'll be adding links to my YouTube, Twitter, Xfire and Facebook accounts and hopefully incorporating social links to quickly post links to blogs, very exciting stuff! I'm also finally getting round to creating page links, in short the new HWDN is going to be awesome.

In BF2 I have finally become an officer and gained my butter bar (2nd Lieutenant), in less than 15,000 points' time I'll be a 1st Lieutenant, but that is some way away yet!


Also, get well soon to RtK who is currently ill, recover soon buddy, the festive season and new year are fast approaching!

Sat here writhing in agony with my neck and back, but anyway, it's been a while, been really busy... well not really. This evening I was playing BF2 and was having usual lag problems and for some reason, I decided to try it in single player in very high res, 1280x1024 in fact, I was surprised to see the game run quite well and looked great, so I had a thought, maybe my recent problems with BF2 aren't necessarily hardware related... sooo I launched the server browser and found a low ping Karkand server - Super Infantry Clan, the game loaded no problem and to my utter amazement the game was running... not just running, but was running better than I have ever had it running, great hitreg, nice graphics (bear in mind from the screenshot below I hadn't turned anti-aliasing on). Click the image below for the original screenshot (JPEG 147KB).


In other news, my application for a Flex Builder 3 licence was accepted, thank you Adobe! Also, I may very possibly be joining EAF... Speaking of BF2, I'm just 4000 points away from ranking up to Sergeant Major! Soon I will have crossed the 30k gap, and after that, just 10k points later is my butter bar (2nd lieutenant)! Codeined up now to the eyeballs, I'll leave you with the news that I am considering changes to HWDN, including making a nice new design and adding a BF2 leaderboard module to the main page. Oh yeah - I'm getting rid of AdSense for HWDN, it's just not economically viable and it screws up my HTML validity!

Started work on HWDN today, cleaning up layout, reverted to XHTML 1.0 Strict, adding new pages, adding custom error pages, making a header image and navigation and generally improving the site. Thought about reusing the old HWDUDN (Hellwrath.ubersource.net) layout from 2007, although probably won't. Oh yeah, ads have returned, courtesy of Google, I have decided on having one large graphical ad at the bottom of each page and am pretty sure it doesn't spoil the site too much, I'm hoping the ads will bring in at least a few pence that can go towards funding my hosting for HWDN and my other sites.

Hey guys, it's been a while since my last entry, I know, I would like to say I've been extremely busy, but that would be a lie, in fact I've been fantastically lazy, although I woke up before at around 12 and thought I should get to work on HWDN. I have been neglecting the site, and I need to pay it more attention, as you can see I've made some adjustments already, I'm hoping to actually make it look quite nice by the end of it, I just need to stick with it and try and juggle my time between this and my other projects and sites.

On the todo list is a navigation, comments for blog entries, links page, admin pages to add/edit/delete blogs and some BF2 related stats with a leaderboard of the BF2 players I know and love from EAF, uKm and beyond, so watch this space! I've just had some cereal, it's 2:53 and I'm considering going back to bed, I''ve not had much sleep lately and my sleep pattern has been all wrong. Oh yeah, it's Friday which means beer and BF2 tonight, so expect some drunken rantings later on, but for now goodnight!