World cup 2006

20 years ago I’d been stirred up with the prospect of an exciting 2006 World Cup and did a bit of blogging about it while we were still in the tournament. I found this on an old hard drive a few years ago so I must have saved it from whatever blog I had at the time, or wrote it in a document before posting it, rather than writing on the fly.

With this post I’ve left the text as is, terrible writing intact. I have got Claude to run over it and tidy up spelling of player names, formatting and punctuation so at least it’s kind of readable now. I’m posting it here for prosperity.

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Another quick update

Sorry for the lack of posts over the last couple of months. I didn’t realise it had actually been this long since my last post on the #ParadroidRemake we’ve been working on for what seems like years now. In reality it really hasn’t actually been that long, but my partner and I have gone through the dreaded moving process, which meant all the equipment packed away, and all sorts of “more important things to do” than tinker on the computer as soon as my desk was setup again in the new house. And I do as I’m told 🙂

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Website update

Thought I’d put myself out there a bit more with some social media buttons and add a lot of Twitter integration as it seems a lot more people are starting to get interested in our #ParadroidRemake blogs and tweets. While I was at it I also added in dedicated pages to some old games I’ve been involved with including a link to iDef, now it’s not currently mentioned on our website due to the Paradroid build up page.

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Polishing the blog

I took the opportunity to do a little housekeeping on the blog today which ended up with me getting my hands dirty with some raw html again. Very basic stuff in the end, and the kind of stuff I used to do in my sleep in the mid 90’s when we had nothing else to do it all for us. But, like everything else, you forget it all, when you have everything spoon fed to you. Tools like WordPress actually make it pretty easy to do most of what you want, it was just being stubborn that made me do it the hard way to get a couple of linked images in the side bar.

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