Blogshares the fantasy stock market for weblogs has gone into beta. This means that members can publicise it (see the link in the left hand column) and that you can join and start trading.
“BlogShares is a fantasy stock market for weblogs. Players get to invest a fictional $500, and blogs are valued by inbound links.”
It looks like it should be a bit of fun, I’ve joined and started buying stocks.
Yahoo! It looks like my zed1.net domain is finally sorted. It moved onto the new server today, and the ip address change seems to have propagated through the DNS now. Fingers crossed for no more problems.
I’ve just installed Alex King‘s Activity Since Last Visit hack. Which means you should now see a notice at the top of the page to indicate whether there are any new posts or comments since your last visit. This will start working once you have read this post since it needs to set a cookie.
Zed1.net finally came back sometime before 9 this morning, only to disappear again! It was back again after midday. I finally received an email explaining:
“Some customers may have been experiencing intermittent problems with the server over the weekend. We have been working continually to rectify it and have now identified the problem, which is currently being worked on.”
They have decided to bring forward their Systems Upgrade Schedule which should result in a faster more reliable service. We shall see.
In the meantime I am still assessing other hosting providers. I’m even looking at reseller services which will allow me to host multiple domains.
Just after I was taking Jamie through how to use her new blog, the zed1.net web server went down again.
It’s getting to be a real pain now. I’m going to have to consider changing hosting service. So soon after I started with this one too. It’s looking like it wasn’t worth going for the cheaper option.
I know that at the price I’m paying I cannot expect 99.999% uptime (which is less than 6 minutes downtime a year) but I don’t expect downtime every day!
I’ve been working on and off on yet another design for a new blog for a family member. I’m hoping to get it finished tonight or by tomorrow at the least.
I’ve also had success with Power Phlogger. It could probably do with some more charts, but I quite like the results I’m getting from it. I’ll probably start rolling it out to the other blogs I’m hosting soon.
I’ve been doing some tidying up of my B2 code tonight. Nothing visible, just minor improvements. I’ve also implemented visitor tracking to give me some useful statistics. I’m using Power Phlogger, I’ll see how it goes and then probably roll it out to my hostees on zed1.net. As it is hosted on zed1.net it should be much quicker than stat4all that they are using.
I need to do a new release of B2 Link Manager soon; I’ve accumulated several bug fixes now. But I want to implement a new feature first. Hopefull I’ll have it finished soon.
Cool! My page counter passed the 200,000 mark some time in the night. That’s up 100,000 since the 1st of January.
I still haven’t got proper stats yet, which has been going on since January. Although curiously, when I asked about them in the support forum, they suddenly started working on the 11th. But most of the data since the 18th January is missing. This is after being promised that no data would be lost. I’m following it up but I am not a happy bunny!
