Driven-Monkey

Thats right folks, after many months of neglect I have finally gotten around to upgrading my site, and fixing all those things that havent been working since the last upgrade.

So now I should be posting more here, or at least more of my FreeBSD posts will be syndicated here. I’ll be posting about a new project from work that I think a few people may find interesting…

Lastly I would also like to apologise for the amount of posts that are going to come through once the syndication to my FreeBSD blog picks up the posts I have made recently and dumps them on the site.

So after talking to a friend of mine I have decided to follow in his footsteps and install statpress reloaded. The main reason for it is that I think it would be interesting to see if more than just a couple of my friends actually read this blog. The biggest problem I think is that my FreeBSD blog, which feeds most of my posts into this blog, doesnt have statpress installed, so I wont be able to tell if anyone is reading the posts from that. Other than that I am not too worried. Now all I have to do is start coming up with stuff to talk about it in some posts.

Ok, so I know how annoying it is when you have to register to a blog just to be ble to comment, so now anyone can comment again. However, to stop the spam returning, I have installed Spam Karma 2 and reCapatcha. Hopefully this works or I’m gonna have to disable non-user commenting again.

So the announcements have been made, and I am happy to announce that I was accepted as a Google Summer of Code participant for 2008!! This is pretty awesome news for me, seeing as it’s great for my C.V, and its going to push me to develop something actually usable, for the first time. I will be working on implementing MPLS in FreeBSD, and yes, for those of you keeping track, that is the same project I am doing as part of my PostGrad Diploma in Computer Science at Waikato University this year.

There is an upside thou, cause now I have the support of the whole FreeBSD community to help me work on this project, as well as having a few extra dollars in the bank to help pay back some of those bills that we students often get. So, and I know I say this alot, but now I will be working on this project a lot, and that should hopefully result in a few extra posts that I can flood the net with. Good times ahead.