http://www.bakie.net Straight to the Point Blog of a Webmastering Student Tue, 23 Sep 2008 11:15:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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/2008/09/17/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/2008/08/23/1st-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/2008/03/27/my-vps-provider-review-zonenet/ Ill keep this short and sweet. Adsense: $216.00 Intergi:  $218.56 Total:  $434.56 http://www.bakie.net/2008/03/01/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/2008/02/29/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/2008/01/20/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/2007/12/15/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/2007/11/26/moving-to-new-vps-provider/ Ive been with a2b2 for exactly 9 months today, so I guess that now is a good time to post a review. I better quickly state my package that I had. It was a custom special double ram package that I found over at WHT: 512mb RAM Guaranteed 1024MB RAM Burst 600GB Bandwidth 15GB Web ... http://www.bakie.net/2007/10/01/my-vps-provider-review-a2b2/ Innoix.com is my latest project. Currently its still in the planning stages so am not releasing any more information but expect an update within the next dew days. If all goes well it is going to be a very long term project that will span many years. Sorry about not releasing ... http://www.bakie.net/2007/09/17/innoix/