Ok so I have finally gotten around to looking up my blog stats from last month and they are looking good. Keeping with the trend, it seems my unique visits have gone up last month

In the month of May I received 2,247 unique visits and now last month, the month of June, I received 2,395 unique visits. Not bad that is a %6.59 increase from the month of May to June. It is great to see that my stats are still rising. I like knowing that at least some people will read my blog posts. Even if nobody leaves a comment, it is still great to have people read what I have written Although some people do throw in a comment or 2 every so often, which is always greatly appreciated

So far now the month of July is looking promising. Stats so far are already showing a slight increase over last month’s stats. Towards the end of last I installed a Google adsense banner onto my blog, I hope to try and make some money to try and cover my hosting costs for next year. I doubt that I will be able to make enough through that banner, but I thought I might aswell give it a shot .

Last month I managed to make 19 blog posts, I did miss a few but I have managed to finally get back into regular blog posting. Here are all of the blog posts I made during the month of June 2009:

• Should I Go, Or Should I Stay?
• The Sims 3 Problems
• It Has A Mind Of Its Own
• Planning For Tomorrow
• Here Is May 2009 Stats – Finally!
• Packing My Bags
• Not Much Activity Here Lately
• Facebook Usernames
• Increasing My Blogs Load Speed
• Out Of The Blue
• I Passed All My Exams
• I Should Have My Results
• NewMovies.ie — Live Online
• My .ie Website Launches Tomorrow
• Now Thats Great Customer Care!
• Strategy Games
• Bad Internet Connection Lately
• A Good Idea For A Wordpress Plugin/Feature
• It’s Been A While

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Within the next day or two, it will be likely that my blog will be down for a while. I hope that it will not be too long. The reason it will be down will be due to the fact that my hosting expires with Lunarpages in 2 days and I want to move my sites content onto my other hosting account before it is too late.

Usually transferring a domain from one set of nameserves to another will take about 2 or 3 hours to complete. It will be a lot of work to move my sites to another server but it will definitely be worth it. There are a lot of files to move and also the following sites are included in the move of servers, so they will also go down within the next few days.

First of this site Leateds, then The Entertainment Clam also a classmate of mine has a site on my server so his site will go down temporarily until he changes his nameservers, his site is DarkLeopard, there is one other site currently on this server but since i have not finished it there is no need to say what it is, one thing i will say is that i have had the idea for more than a year and hope to get around to finishing off the site at some stage in the near future .

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My blog here is currently hosted on Lunarpages servers and my hosting account expires now at the beginning of next month. In order to renew my hosting account there it would cost me $107.40 (€76.53) which is a ridiculas amount to have to pay for one year’s hosting, in my opinion. I decided to have a quick look on the Lunarpages site to see what their current rate is for customers now, and it is so much better than what they are offering me!

Now you can get a full years hosting with them for only $59.40 (€42.33), that is almost half the price they are trying to get off me! So I think that it would be a good idea to leave Lunarpages, I have got another hosting account with Dreamhost which only cost me $9.24 (€6.96) for a full year, now obviously that is not their usual yearly cost, but I got that when they were having a deal.

My point is here why should I pay for another years hosting when I could just simply export all my databases from Lunarpages and then Import them all into Dreamhost then I could just transfer my Domains Nameservers over to Dreamhost. That way I could have a full years hosting with Dreamhost for virtually nothing, since I have already bought it.

I think that it would not hurt Lunarpages to look after their current customers before looking for new ones. They could offer their current customers a discount on their next year’s hosting that would at least match their current offer they are offering to new customers!

I still have not fully made my mind up yet if I should switch, but it is likely that I will.  I have a few more days to decide before my hosting expires, then I will send off the e-mail cancelling my account if I choose to go ahead. Sure my websites might go down for a few hours, but it will be worth it to save me spending another $107.40!

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I ordered myself a copy of the Sims 3 for when it was going to be released. I got it about 5 days after its release, which was pretty fast so that was good. Then I did not get around to installing the game until about another week or so since I did not have the time to do it.

I decided to install it onto my main desktop PC, it met all the requirements for the game and so I popped in the disc, and then the problems just began from there. It was fine for about 75% of the install until it ran into a crc error, then I kept retrying it and had no luck whatsoever. I then tried to ignore the error and it would finish the installation, but then when you went to play the game it would not load, obviously the file I skipped was important!

I started to look online to see if anyone else had run into a problem like mine and to my surprise a lot of people had the exact same problem! Not just me! So they all had no idea what was wrong, some people suggested that the crc error would of occurred due to a corrupt disc, but there are only so many corrupt disc’s per batch created and it was unlikely that we all happened to get them!

After about 2 hours of trying to find a decent solution to my problem online I decided to take a break and try it again myself. I also own a laptop so I decided to see if it would install on it, and what do you know it did! It actually worked for some reason! The laptop is not as good as my PC in any way, so it was very strange that it worked at all! I came to the assumption that the disc drive on the laptop was newer than that of the PC so it would be a better quality one, that could be the only reason for it working.

The file that the crc error always stopped (FullBuild1.package) on seemed to be one of the biggest files on the disc so I thought that the disc drive on my PC must struggle with reading large files. So I decided to copy the entire disc’s content onto my PC’s hard drive, excluding the file it had problems with, and then I put the disc back into my laptop and copied the large file to a memory stick and the put the memory stick into my PC and added it into the right place along with all the other installation files.

You can always install a game by copying the disc’s content to your hard drive; you just can’t play it from the hard drive. So after having all the files on my hard drive, this took about 40 minutes, I started the installation and it worked perfectly! No errors, no problems, it was great. Then I decided to start playing the game and no problems at all occurred. If you have the crc error, then chances are if you try this method you should have no problem with getting the game working.

So that was the problem out of the way and then I found another! I started to play the game and created my first family in it, then bought a house, began to decorate it and then BOOM! Screen flashes blue then black and no amount of buttons would get it back up! The bloody PC crashed! I had to restart the PC then I found out what the error was and it was an error regarding my graphics card. I quickly checked my graphics cards specs and compared them to the back of the games case, and they were better than the box! So there should be no problem with it, and it is even in the list of supported graphic cards provided on the Sims website!

I had no idea how to fix this so I tried all the usual updating the graphics card driver and no joy, it still would not work . I then went over to the Sims 3 support page and filled in the tech problem form and sent it off along with a direct x information file that they request, it contains all the specs of you system. I got a response from them the next day. They told me my graphics card needed to be updated and gave me a link to a page with it, and when I went to install it, my bloody PC crashed again, and again every time I tried it. So I just gave up.

At the moment I am playing it on my laptop, it is a bit slow but it is better than nothing, I will at some stage try to get back around to having a look at it and try to get it working again.

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For the past week i have been having trouble with my wireless card on my laptop. Usually i would just use my desktop PC however the rest of my family use the laptop a lot.

They recently started telling me that the wireless was cutting off a lot and also sometimes it would not pick up the broadband signal at all, even if they sat right next to the router!

I spent hours trying to figure out why the wireless card refused to work, and i had no useful result I tried many things such as resetting my routers wireless settings, unblocking firewalls, also removing all existing connections on the laptop and then just added back in the wireless internet connection, and unfortunately none of these worked.

I also tried to update the wireless cards driver, also i removed and reinstalled the driver for the wireless card and that also did not work. Then i just became really confused on how it used to work and then suddenly stopped.

I then restored my pc back to an earlier date, to around the beginning of the year, and then suddenly it was back working perfectly. Then about a week later the same thing would happen again and i would have to keep doing the same thing.

It was not worth restoring the PC back to an earlier date all the time, so i just decided to completely wipe the laptop and start fresh again, and it has worked perfectly. Now there is nothing wrong, and the wireless card is working perfectly now

I still have no idea what caused the wireless card to stop working, i did not install anything that would of interfered with it. the only change to the system was the widows updates that would automatically install. So although i did not figure out what was wrong, i am glad to finally have it working again, but it would be great to know what caused it in the first place, in case it happens again in the future!

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So in April 2009 my total unique visits to this blog was 851 uniques with a total of 1185 pageviews. That itself was a really good achievement, so far my blog has being staying at a steady incline of visitors, and the month of May was no exception.

So the stats for May 2009 are as follows: 2247 unique visits and 2591 pageviews , i think that is just a mental leap upwards from the previous months stats. So that is a 164% increase on last months stats. It is always nice to see a sudden increase.

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Tomorrow morning i am going over to Luton in England. I am just going over to see all my relatives. There is also a party for my granny, its her 80th birthday, so tht should be good crack!

So right now i am packing my suitcase and i will have to be back up in 5 hours as i am leading the house at 6 in the morning, so i guess i wont even have 5 hous sleep!

Anyway, there will be no posts until i get back. See Ya

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Over the past few days i have not been making a commitment to this blog by posting regular posts. I have barely even been on the internet at all over the past few days, apart from checking my e-mail. I had been doing so well this month so far. However i have become very sidetracked this week with work and i have now started to drive my car woo! I have had the car about a month now i think and it had a bit of work to get done to it.

Now it is finished, its not perfect, a bit more work will have to be done to it, but it is currently in a state now where i can drive it . So no more taxi’s needed to get to work now! The boundaries are lifted now, at least as far as they can be until i get my full license.

This weekend i will be flying over to Luton in England, that is where my relatives live and we are going to be having a party . So i am looking forward to that, and no doubt there will be no blog posts then because i will have no access to any internet . ah well, it will be good to have a break.

Also i have not gotten around to posting my blog stats from last month, i have not forgotten, i have just had no time. However i will hopefully get them up tomorrow. And they are looking pretty good

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Last Friday, June 12th, Facebook launched a new way of allowing there users to share links to their pages that would be easier to remember, in the form of a username. The launch in Ireland would have been at 5am GMT so I decided I was not that eager to get a username so I decided not to stay up

However the next day I got up and tried to get my name as my username but I couldn’t so I settled for leateds! so instead of having a easily long url to give out to people so they can find my page, usually people will end up misspelling url’s that are long, now all they have to do is go to a really short url: www.facebook.com/leateds , its much simpler.

So the idea of being able to finally get a username seemed a big hit with everyone on facebook, so within the first 3 minutes of facebook beginning to issue username, over 200,000 were registered, that is just mental .

And then when the first hour of username registration passed over a 1,000,000 had been issued! The biggest worry that facebook engineers had was how they were going to prevent there site from crashing with the most likely sudden burst of visitor traffic, so they made a lot of modifications on ways they can improve the quality of the site and reduce server load requests. And they ended up being successful because there site did not go down, which is amazing considering the amount of traffic they received.

Here are some more figures (from mashable) on username registration on the launch of username registration:

- It took 3 minutes to reach 200,000 usernames registered. That’s an astounding 1111+ registered per second during the first minutes of the feature release.

- After 15 minutes, the number of usernames jumped to 500,000. The pace slowed down, but there is no laughing at 555.5 usernames or so taken per second. How many other websites could handle that type of load?

- By 10:01 PM PT, a full hour after release, around one million custom URLs had been claimed. That’s an average of 278 usernames per minute or so.

- Where do Facebook usernames stand now? Well, as of 2:00 PM ET/11:00 AM PT, over 3 million usernames have been taken. That’s 3,000,000 custom URLs during a Friday night.

So basically a lot of usernames have been registered since the launch. I wonder why facebook waited this long to release usernames, most social networks had them from when they started out, and considering that facebook is one of the biggest sites in the world, you would think they would of had usernames by now! Anyway for more info on username registration, check out the blog post over on mashable.com

You can get yourself a username by going here, before they are all gone , well not all of them, but all the good ones!

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