A few days ago, I installed a script called tighturl on my u4u.be account.
It is now successfully working, and you may use it to shorten urls.
You can visit the url shortening page at http://u4u.be/.
I am currently looking into creating an api for my url shortening service, so that others can use it in their applications.
But for now, just visit http://u4u.be/ and enjoy!
-Michael.
Posts Tagged ‘mtgames updates’
u4u.be is live!
Friday, December 4th, 2009Mtgames.org has moved
Monday, November 23rd, 2009A few weeks back I moved mtgames.org to a new server.
I am now successfully hosting mtgames.org, technologywizard.mtgames.org, moo.mtgames.org, ai5hf.mtgames.org, and troop5.mtgames.org on my linode.
For those who don’t know what a linode is, it is a server run under linux.
It is what is called a vps, or Virtual Private Server, meaning more than one server os runs on one actual server hardware.
So far, mtgames.org and all other websites seem to be running smoothly.
Along with all the websites, I am also running two moos off the server.
One is at mtgames.org:2285, and that is the one called Dragons MOO which was previously at loohosting.com:2285.
The other one is at mtgames.org:8328, and that was the one named Hunt which was previously up at mcp-server.com:8328.
I may be putting another moo or two up in the near future, so just keep your eyes on this blog!
Until then, have a happy and safe web-surfing experience!
-Michael.
url shortener idea, please comment
Saturday, October 10th, 2009I just had the idea strike me that I could set up a url shortener.
This would help bring traffic to this site, and would give me another identity on the web.
I was thinking of the domain l2s.be, which is as short as bit.ly, and would stand for long 2 short.
I would like to hear my reader’s perspective on this matter, however.
Would it be worth my time to set up a url shortener? Would there be people who would use it? All questions that need answering.
Feel free to ask me any questions you have about this idea, and I will do my best to answer them.
Also, if you have any questions that also need to be answered, feel free to post them as well in the comments.
-Michael.
website maintanence
Wednesday, October 7th, 2009I am writing to tell all that the website upgrades seem to have gone perfectly, and there should be no more reason for errors or slowdowns.
If there are, email me at webmaster@mtgames.org
Thanks,
-Michael.
Edit: All that is affected is the email, which is now working fine for the moment, and you shouldn’t have to worry about that anyway. 
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edit 2: Everything is up and running as normal. Now to remove the admin announcement…
Website downtime
Monday, October 5th, 2009I am posting today to notify you, maybe a little late, of some website downtime that was experienced on Thursday, 1 October 2009.
From about 5:30 P.M. CDT to about 6:30 P.M. CDT, our hosting provider, dot5hosting.com, experienced a datacenter outage, which partially disabled some websites.
There was the ability to access our website, but most websites were moving slowly, and ours timed out most of the time.
There will be some scheduled maintanence this week to make sure this type of problem does not happen again, but apart from that, it should be smoothe sailing from here on.
As a side note, I am attempting to put in an admin announcements section on all pages of my site, so if this ever happens again you will know more readily.
Email me with any questions at webmaster@mtgames.org
Thanks,
-Michael.
space race has been replaced
Friday, September 11th, 2009Hi all loyal followers,
I have recently replaced space race 2285 with the new “Dragons MOO”.
I figured there were enough space MOOs out there, so I am going to model this one along the lines of the Inheritance cycle: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, and the fourth book by Christopher Paolini.
The connection and website info is still the same:
loohosting.com:2285 to connect and http://moo.mtgames.org/ for the website.
I hope to see you on Dragons MOO!
-Michael, Your MOO administrator and webmaster, http://www.mtgames.org/
moos, moos, and more moos
Monday, August 31st, 2009Hi all fans of sr2285,
I have decided to pursue my fortune as a mud developer, so sr2285 will be going down.
I will hopefully have another moo up in my spare time, maybe along the lines of a book series I like, not giving many details away at this point.
This dicision was influenced by the fact that there are so many space-based moos out there (don’t give up hope, I will hopefully make the mud space-based), and the fact that my moo has some very amazingly annoying bugs which have absolutely no reason to exist.
Anyway, if you have any votes on the theme of my next moo, please email me at moo@mtgames.org
In the meantime, you may check out my moo homepage at http://moo.mtgames.org/
Also check out my friends moo at http://hunt.mtgames.org/
I hope to see you later on whatever mud/moo I run into you on.
-Michael, webmaster.
http://www.mtgames.org/
tweet suite added to my blog
Sunday, August 23rd, 2009Hi all readers,
I am simply posting to announce that I have added a twitter plugin to my blog.
It will allow you to retweet my posts, and even (hopefully) tweet my posts automatically.
Wish me luck on my twittering adventures and follow mtgames on twitter:
http://www.twitter.com/mtgames/
-Michael, the webmaster.
Site restructuring
Thursday, August 20th, 2009Hi all MTGames-ers,
I have been rewriting pages, and adding more pages, along with putting in subdirectories for more pages.
I have moved many non-ham radio related links off of http://ai5hf.mtgames.org/ and moved them onto the links and games pages on http://www.mtgames.org.
It is true that this post is about a week late in coming, but I figured I’d let you know nonetheless.
Thanks for reading and commenting,
-Michael, webmaster, http://www.mtgames.org/
webmaster@mtgames.org