http://www.bakie.net Straight to the Point Blog of a Webmastering Student Fri, 16 Oct 2009 10:35:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I got an email a few weeks ago from Heart Internet showing me their current special offer of .eu domains for 99pence a year. I bought 8 domains from them for a few projects that I am thinking of doing in the near future. Their other prices are not too bad either: Domain ... http://www.bakie.net/2009/10/eu-domain-for-99pyear/ As part of my Chemical Engineering I do a placement year during my third year where I spend 12 months working for a company as a Student Engineer (This is for me to get my DIS with my degree). I will be starting at Croda on the 2nd September. I was ... http://www.bakie.net/2009/09/started-placement-at-croda/ I haven't given an update on SpudMud for a long time now so I guess that now is a good a time as any with the 75th video released. I never knew that it would actually be a challenge to find good games/ videos / animations and pictures for SpudMud :P ... http://www.bakie.net/2008/09/spudmud-75th-video-reached/ I just got my first year results and I managed to get a 72.5% average which I like to round upto 73% . It was what I was aiming for but was only expecting to get around 60 - 65% because the exams were not easy but I guess they went ... http://www.bakie.net/2008/08/1st-year-results/ About 4 months ago I moved to Zone.net after looking for a good fully managed VPS provider because I didn't have the time to manage my old VPS due to University and other things such as laziness . The main reason that I chose them over other VPS providers was that ... http://www.bakie.net/2008/03/my-vps-provider-review-zonenet/ Ill keep this short and sweet. Adsense: $216.00 Intergi:  $218.56 Total:  $434.56 http://www.bakie.net/2008/03/spudmud-revenue-for-feb-43456/ Just though that Ill give a quick update on my life at Uni. So far exam wise I have had 3 exams with an average of around 70% which I am quite happy with and 2 bits of coursework with an average of around 80%. The main thing that I ... http://www.bakie.net/2008/02/update-on-my-uni-course/ I have been looking for a good CPM ad network for SpudMud and I stumbled across Intergi over at Talk arcades. The main thing that caught my attention was the nice and high CPM of around $2.00 - $3.00 for some ads which is a lot more than my current ... http://www.bakie.net/2008/01/intergi-finally-a-good-arcade-cpm-network/ I have been waiting for this moment for quite some time now and now it is here, the Christmas holidays... I ahve been waiting for this holiday for quite some time because my University don't have half term like Sixth Form/High School so we only have 2 breaks, Christmas and ... http://www.bakie.net/2007/12/finally-the-christmas-holidays/ I have decided to move all of my sites from my current UK VPS at a2b2.com to a US VPS over in New York (reasons explained later on). I decided to do this for many reasons, the main one being that I needed my VPS to be fully managed because I ... http://www.bakie.net/2007/11/moving-to-new-vps-provider/