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 ‘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.
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/
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
Nfb and braille — They need you!
Thursday, August 20th, 2009Hi all blog readers,
I am just posting to inform all my readers of the nfb’s new book about success stories and stories of people who needed braille that will be given to President Obama during meet the blind month.
If you have a story of success or a story of a time when you needed braille, they would love to hear from you.
Simply go to http://www.braille.org/ and click on the letters to obama link.
Thanks for supporting the nfb,
-Michael, webmaster, http://www.mtgames.org/