Well it seems a bit late since it’s everywhere else, but I thought I should at least mention the recent death of James “Scotty” Doohan. For more information visit CNN.

Google have put a load of satellite images of the moon along with data of various moon landings to provide us with Google Moon.

I’ve apparently installed two pugins for Wordpress. One is simpletags allowing me to add Technorati tags to posts easily, and the other is bstat, a nice stats plugin. So we’ll see if they work.

The Galaxia and OrbWars forums have merged. Not terribly apparent since there haven’t been any Galaxia forums for a long time and as such it only has one actual forum. But still, check it out: http://forums.orbwars.co.uk.

Imperial College’s bid to host the Inter Varsity Dancesport Competition in 2006 has been succesful and I’m on the “support team”.

Wohoo!

The current version of Galaxia Reborn is now available to play with. You can’t actually do that much but some things are still fun to play with.

Signup works but doesn’t actually give you anything you can use so just login as “Q” with password “q”.

You can move ships around and build more at the colony (you have to find the colony first though :P) although you can’t send them into space just yet. Also, the entire interface has been translated into Finnish (well almost. Two little bits were added afterwards but they’ll get done soon enough). Thanks for that go to my girlfriend Julia. If anyone is interested in translating the interface into a different language let me know . You’ll get a permanent link on the info panel at the bottom for people using your language as well as a mention in any credits.

Galaxia Reborn

Another installation that was easier than I expected.

I now have PHP5 installed alongside PHP4. It lowers efficiency a bit since it’s installed as CGI instead of an Apache module but for testing it’s fine :)

For anyone planing on doing this who isn’t too familiar with installing stuff via the command line on Unix-like OSes (like me), there is a very usefulguide from Scott Huring.

Not that it really makes much difference yet, I’m now running MySQL 4!

The upgrade was easier than I expected with the only problem not strictly being an upgrade problem (I had to manually kill MySQL and restart it to get it to recreate my socket file). This is all preparation for installing PHP5 so everyone can actually see Galaxia Reborn.

Just to clear things up about why I mention this when there are a few other similar things out there. This one truly is decentralised. Somewhere on the page you use as an ID is the address to your OpenID server. This site has a diagram explaining it all.

Well I have OpenID working at a basic level in Galaxia for signing up and logging in.

For signups though a user still needs to provide a username eventually to replace the url which will generally be too long.