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64 Bit Jungle’s Traffic Stats look like K2!

Hodge — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 13:35:17 +0000

Thanks to StumbleUpon, and its Stumblers, who have sent me some great traffic, 64 Bit Jungle’s stats for the past couple of weeks bear an uncanny resemblance to the South face of K2! For those who don’t know, K2 is the second highest mountain on Earth, and located in the Karakoram section of the Himalaya, on the border between Pakistan and Tashkurgan Tajik. How cool is that?

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64 Bit Jungle has a new skin!

Hodge — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:44:51 +0000

Out with the old, in with the new. As mentioned in my last post, I loved the old i3Theme theme, but I got somewhat fidgety over the last week or so, and felt like a change, so made a change or two to the site!

The new theme is based on the English version of Open Book, developed by Jean-Baptiste Jung and which in turn is based on Darren Hoyt’s Mimbo. I’ve spent a little time making some modifications to the theme over the past few days, tweaking it to my liking, and I’ll probably spend more time over the coming weeks cleaning up some code, and tweaking some more. It’s always the same when you get a new toy.

The site should be easier to navigate. I still need to do a lot of work on streamlining categories, and optimising existing posts, their categories, tags and so on – although I’m somewhat reluctant, since I don;t want to damage any inbound links to existing posts!

That’s pretty much it. I hope you all like the new design, and find it easy to use. For the sake of sentimentality, there’s a screen shot of the old site design with this post…

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Changes are brewing…

Hodge — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:07:30 +0000

Just a quick heads up about some changes I’m making to 64bitjungle.com – no, no, content will remain the same, and I’ll be writing as (in?)frequently as usual, but there will be a major design change possibly within the next couple of days.

As much as I love the i3Theme, I’m getting fidgety, and feel like dressing 64bitjungle up in a new outfit. I’m just making some tweaks and changes to the new theme, trying to get everything the way I want it – could take a couple of hours, or a couple of days. We’ll see!

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Blogger’s Choice Awards 2009

Hodge — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 09:14:17 +0000

So, this is a bit of a short and cheekey post, to ask you – if you have a spare minute or two – to vote for 64bitjungle.com in this year’s Blogger’s Choice Awards, in the Best Geek Blog category. Just click on the badge on the left, and vote.

Thanks for your support!

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We’re back!

Hodge — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:56:03 +0000

Ok, Server migration went smoothly – 64 Bit Jungle was in the Ether for a while, but it’s back!

All good.

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Moving to a new server…

Hodge — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 03:31:53 +0000

I’m just about to move to a new server, so 64 Bit Jungle may be down for a little while – hopefully not too long!

Thanks to all my valued readers for your loyalty and patience!

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Shameless self-promotion for my new side project: thriftseek.com

Hodge — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 03:09:38 +0000

I’ve been relatively quiet for the past month or so, with the Holidays and New Year, and I’ve also put a little time into creating my latest side project, thriftseek.com. What is it? Well, it’s a simple price comparison site. I know, there are dozens of well known price comparison sites out there, so what I’ve done is simplified the site, and boiled it down to the bare necessities. The site takes your search term, finds relevant products on ebay and Amazon, compares them and returns the cheapest/best offer in accordance with your search. The results returned are the single best offer from each merchant, with the overall best outlined. The rest of the results are also listed for your perusal in a simple two column layout. Nothing fancy, just a simple comparison engine. I still need to work on a couple of tweaks, but it’s now up and running, and people are actually using it already!

OK, shameless self promotion over! I’ve got a few more Linux articles in the pipeline, so I’ll hopefully get them published soon.

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64 Bit Baby

Hodge — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 04:53:24 +0000

I’ve not had time to write any posts for a few days, as my Wife has recently given birth to a baby girl! Both are healthy and well, and will be back home soon!

Time to go back to the hospital

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Absolutely pointless leap year post

Hodge — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 13:17:34 +0000

A post with no absolutely substance, no information, no point, and here simply because it’ll be another 4 years until I can do this again

Actually, I’ve already posted twice today. Bollocks.

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Environmentally Friendly, Green Web Hosting Powered by Renewable Solar and Wind Energy!

Hodge — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 12:56:09 +0000

Living in the Jungle, I’m concerned about environmental issues, and try to live my life as Green as possible. Unfortunately, I witness deforestation, slash and burn, littering, and all sorts of non-green activities on an all too regular basis. So, I was incredibly impressed when a friend pointed out ThinkHost to me. Yes, they’re another web hosting company along with the other thousands out there, but by far the best thing about these guys, is that they run on 100% Renewable Energy – Wind and Solar powered Linux Web Servers… How unbelievably cool is that?!? Very, I think anyway. They also plant a new tree with every customer sign up, which makes the Hippy in me very happy (I like to please the Hippy and the Geek). In fact, I think the only thing that would make them even cooler, is if their servers were Ubuntu web servers! They currently have a great $7.95/month hosting plan, offering:

100 gigabytes server space
1000 gigabytes bandwidth
Unlimited MySQL databases included
Host unlimited domains/sites

along with PHP5 support, unlimited POP3 email accounts, Linux/Apache setup, software packages and so on and so forth.

I’ve no intention of putting distracting banners regularly in my posts – in fact, not at all after this one – but I’m pretty damn impressed with these guys, so they deserve a big ass, one-off, in-post banner:

They also have a pretty impressive affiliate program, which is a cool way to spread the Green word!

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