Archive for the ‘General’ Category

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• November 14, 2007

Crestock Photoshop competition

Crestock.com, the stock photo website, are currently running a Photoshop competition with some pretty big prizes. All you have to do is take the seasonal stock photos they have chosen and create a work of art. There are four rounds with different themes, and you can contribute one image for each round. Sign-up and submission is completely free and without commitment. For each round we will supply a set of source photos from our image library. Your entry must be [...]

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• October 19, 2007

Athlete at Norwich LCR

Shortly before we went to see Damien Rice my girlfriend bought tickets for us to go and see Athlete at the Norwich UEA LCR (University of East Anglia LCR... don't know what the last bit means). Last night it was finally time to go see them, and we had a great time. It was actually part of the UK tour for their new album, Beyond the Neighbourhood and naturally I hadn't listened to it, so I spent the whole day [...]

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• October 12, 2007

Roll – Flash Game

My blogging has been rather slow for the last few weeks. I have a number of small posts lined up for publishing but haven't had the time to finish any of them. Thankfully it hasn't just been laziness - I have actually been doing something. I've been making a game in Adobe Flash. The Reason I decided to make the game when I saw a game development competition over on Jayisgames.com. I've read the site for the last couple of [...]

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• October 9, 2007

Radioheads new album – pay as much as you like

Radiohead have released pre-orders for their new album... kind of. The album is a pre-release (before release in the shops), and can only be purchased online, from their website. The most interesting part? You pay as much as you want for it. I think this is a great idea. Not only will they get publicity but i reckon they could end up earning more. The audience for a stunt like this is bound to pay for it, and I reckon [...]

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• August 21, 2007

Link Competition winners…

I decided to go through the competition entries carefully, and read a number of posts from each site before announcing the winners, hence the delay - but finally I have reached a decision. Finalists Originally there were to be 3 finalists, but so many good sites were submitted that I've picked the ones that interest me most and listed them below. All these sites will be placed in the blog roll on my site when it finally gets completed, and [...]

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• August 16, 2007

Links competition now closed

My recent links competition is now closed to entries. I'm going to spend a couple of days going through the websites entered and will post the winners soon (probably Monday or Tuesday). I received more entries than I had expected and there are some really nice sites in there - the entries are listed below. Blog-Op DisregardMe Second Effort Things that are Fun thepinkc A little piece of me GameSpotting Power Meter Tips - Training4cyclists.com ShanKri-la Net Writing Adam Demp.se [...]

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• August 4, 2007

Ripper – Buffy “sequel” in production

Oh so long I have been waiting for this news. Back in the day (about 4 or 5 years ago now) I was a massive Buffy the Vampire slayer fan. It was a couple of series before I started watching it but once I got in I was hooked. I am pretty well versed in Buffy lore and have been hearing rumours about the spin off - Ripper - for quite some time now. For those not "in the know" [...]

• July 30, 2007

Binary Moon Links Competition

I am in the process of working out a redesign for my site. The redesign will focus on building more of a community feel, and making the site more personal - in short focusing on what the you want rather than what I want. Some of the things I plan to add include recent comments, popular posts (based upon comments), and ... a link list. I have already started creating my link list, filling out the wordpress blog roll, but [...]

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• July 8, 2007

3 Reasons why I suck as a blogger

Recently I have been thinking about Binary Moon and why it has plateaued and wondering if I can help it grow anymore. I like to think the site has some interesting content, and that it's not inoffensive to look at, so why is my traffic starting to drop? 1. Lack of focus I have never had any sort of focus on Binary Moon. I jump around quite regularly between video games and web design with the occasional movie based post, [...]

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• June 4, 2007

5 Google Analytics things I would change

I really like Google Analytics. I use it pretty much exclusively for my website stat tracking, and the recent update is wonderful. However there are a few things I would like to change to improve it even more. In case you haven't heard of Google Analytics, it's a service offered by Google which tracks the visitors to your website. The security concious amongst you will be happy to know that no personally identifiable information is sent, and the web designers... [...]

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• May 23, 2007

Binary Moon search results

A couple of weeks ago I installed a plugin that tracks what people search for on my site. I wanted to see what people were interested in and, more importantly, what they were searching for that I don't actually talk about here. Unsurprisingly Harry Potter (or Harry, or Potter) was the number 1 thing people are looking for here, but there were quite a few unexpected search queries. A disturbing number of people are searching for sex, or sex based [...]

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• May 8, 2007

New Google Updates (Analytics, Reader, Adsense, and Checkout)

I'm sure I remember reading something like this at the start of the year (I'm making the quote up). We (Google) are now going to stop releasing stacks of new stuff, and instead focus on improving what we have It's not a genuine quote but over the last few weeks Google have unveiled a bunch of new features for their various pieces of software so I thought I would mention a few of my favorites. Google Analytics Google Analytics is [...]