Over the last month or so I have felt that myself and a few old friends from university have drifted apart and no longer keep in contact or chat about the geeky stuff we used to while we were on our course.  Of course not all of us drifted apart.  Myself, CWolf & Pringle still keep in regular contact and often play games in the evenings; and I occasionally met up with Karrde/Soupmonster since he lived with CWolf.

However, I had lost contact with neon, immure and warmfusion (well not so much warmfusion but I hadn’t spoken to him for ages, and hadn’t seen him since uni – have seen him once recently though, was great catching up!).  There are quite a few others but I don’t even know how to get back in contact with them… yet.

Anyway, to stop this trend and to revitalise old friendships I started to systematically restore Comscare to it’s former glory.  The first step I took was setting up a forum at http://forum.comscare.org/.  Even though we didn’t have a forum before, I figured it was the first logical step since a lot of Comscarians may be restricted from IM in work and it’s rather tricky to block the web .  The next step was to set up the old blog aggregator, which is almost done now and lives at http://blog.comscare.org/.  I did a little web-surfing, trying to find old blogs and hook up their feeds but not many of us have blogs anymore (hopefully the aggregator will compel some old Comscarians to start blogging again).  I also hooked up some Twitter feeds to the blog site.

I may even set up an IRC server for us to chat on but I’m not sure how many Comscarians would idle there as they may be restricted the same way they are for IM.

Anyway, if you’re a Comscarian that I haven’t mentioned, make yourself known and contact me and I’ll hook you up with a forum account so you can join in on the discussions   Who knows what may come… Comscare Tournament 2009/10?

Whoa, I really hate doing that but it was required.

I just finished writing a php script that read all my old blog posts from the old database in the old format (my own custom blogging system), converted it all into the WordPress format and then inserted it into this blog’s database.

I had to do it before when I updated my own blog system (before I totalled my site).  I’ve decided to take the easy way out at last, but getting all my old posts back definitely wasn’t easy.  However, it worked with amazing success and to top it off, it was all coded via SSH and nano

The only thing that hasn’t been converted, and I couldn’t really see any easy way, was the custom bbCode-style image and link tags I handled on my old blog but screw it… I don’t care , at least I have the option to go back through them and edit the old posts if I really want.

Now, where is that git, I wanna play some Tiberian Sun!