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October 27, 2005
Meeting madness and Brighton and Reading clubs
It has been a very busy week. I am sure that I have more meetings about new websites over the last 10 days then I had for the entire Summer!
Lydia and I fine tuned the Sudoku Solver newsletter in preparation for its launch into over 7,000 inboxes (yes, they are members, not random emails nicked from Sudoku websites and forums). We created quite a packed newsletter with mainly information about the site features, but also an interesting Maths-lite article on the number of solutions that are possible in a 3×3 Sudoku. Have a read for yourself.
The Birthday weekend went really well... albeit lacking a few of the friends I had invited. They all had their excuses... no matter, Sheona, Lydia and I had a great time going to various pubs and clubs in Brighton and Reading.
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October 20, 2005
Birthday
Hey, it's my birthday today! I am planning to go out this weekend with some friends, the Engine Rooms on Friday and the Vodka Bar in Reading the next day.
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October 06, 2005
TV's gone
My TV shorted out today after some of the ceiling fell on it.
Just making a mammoth pizza for dinner now. I piled loads of stuff on this one including three different types of cheese.
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October 02, 2005
Prize Super Sudoku competition
The Super Sudoku competition went live last night. The prize is a Goodmans widescreen portable DVD player. It has been tested and works brilliantly with region 1 and region 2 DVDs.
If you want a chance to win the DVD player, go to: http://supersudoku.com and have a go!
Posted by Nahoo at 07:54 PM | Comments (1)
mySQL work
Website design work has certainly picked up over the last week. I am inundated with new website work requiring mySQL databases. This is certainly a good opportunity for me to improve my online database skills and get paid for it at the same time.
One of the websites came to me as a result of an Indian design company failing to deliver the work and then requesting more money for features in the original brief. When they were challenged, they simply ignored all email and phone correspondence and left the person in charge of the website out of pocket.
This project started quite small, but the owner seems to want more and more features. That's all fine by me. I am now working on an image upload facility for the product images.
Another project involves putting a plant Access database into mySQL and then displaying it on a website. Again, the owner of the site was messed around by the previous site designers, wasting money on a useless design. The site designer dropped the job after he started work on a more exciting line of work.
The previous design is a mess of unrelated designs cut together then styled with some random Photoshop filters. Once ready, I'll upload my version of the site here.
Posted by Nahoo at 07:35 PM | Comments (0)