World Cup!

Wow, what a weekend!@# The world cup is here, and three days in we have a surprise already. Well done to Trinidad and Tobago on their world cup debut! Yesterday England played, we won 1-0 and we had a family Barbecue which was a blast. I've also been told I need to write more in my journal so I'll attempt to do that from now on. I have some major catching up to do on Colbert and The Daily Show though, so that will preoccupy me for a while now. As for the site, not too much has moved forward. I've fixed a few more gallery bugs, and started working on templating the photos site to fit in with the rest of the project sites. I also updated the list of projects greatly too, its pretty much now reflective of what I am currently involved in.

#Football

We've started a football scores game in the WhatNET football channel as well, you can find the current score predictions here . If you're interested in joining, pop onto the WhatNET IRC network, and /join #football or click this link if you have and IRC client capable of using irc:// links.

PirateBay

An interesting story the past week or so was that of the PirateBay in Sweden. The PirateBay is a Swedish torrent site that is exempt from US law, and had their servers raided under pressure of the RIAA/MPAA etc. It took three days for the servers to get back up and running normally. Pretty funny when you consider how much the RIAA and MPAA were gloating about them 'sinking' the PirateBay. The Swedish people didn't take too well the them doing this and launched many protests across Sweden. I found a flickr set of photos from the demonstrations in the capital .

Akewa

I also spent some time last week working on the new Akewa project site. The site is now 90% complete and I've already started looking at the rewrite of the Akewa back end and bots. If you have any feature requests, you can request from the site. The new site sports an Ajax interface and is a lot, lot quicker than the previous version. Support for thumbnail view has been fixed and various other bugs have also been fixed too. For a complete list of new features, bug features and information, then just check out the Akewa News page on the site.