Forums return
I've just re-enabled the forums, now there is no webspace pressure. I managed to upgrade to the newest version of yabb and it managed to import all the old forum data. So hopefully if you registered it should just work still.

The reason I re-enabled them now is not that I think all discussion should occur here. I ususally check the Topfield forums more often than my own site so it's better to post stuff there. But I want to use the forums as a basic bug-tracker. People send me bugs and suggestions quite often but I either deal with it, add it to a list or forget about it (sorry, it happens!). So I thought that if people posted a bug in a thread (try to keep it one bug/request per thread) I could then keep track of it and also inform you when I had dealt with it.

Also, if the Topfield forums are down, like they were recently, it gives me a place to discuss problems etc like the recent grabber failures.

The forums haven't yet got a site button, but they are at: http://noates.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl

Also, I think I finally worked out how to do a proper redirect from the bur.st/~cazlar domain to noates.com, but if you have a link using the old domain I'd appreciate if you changed it to noates.com

Blog back
Sorry for the blog downtime. It seems something went pear-shaped a few weeks ago, and I've only just had the time to investigate and fix the problem. But it should be fine now I hope. I'm still quite busy, the move went well but I'm now in thesis-writing mode so don't have much time for much else. However, I did manage to hack in a HTML grid-preview into MacTF-EPG, and hopefully I'll look into some of the crashes in MacTF 1.3 some are having.

Moving house
Due to a relocation to another state, I'll be offline for a number of days probably, and busy for quite a bit longer after that, so it may take me a while to answer any queries that anyone might have during this period.

Domain active
noates.com should now be going fine. I had a problem with my .htaccess which worked fine in the old location but not in the new subdomain (thanks to bur.st support for working out the problem!) which meant there was a 403 forbidden for most of a day. Most things should work fine (not the /blog shortcut though), but as I gradually move all the links over, some things on the bur.st/~cazlar/ domain may get broken, so try to use noates.com from now on.

Domain disruption
Having received my first ever donation, I decided to in turn donate to bur.st which hosts this website. They provide a great service for free, and survive on member's donations. As a bonus for donating, your webspace increases to 1Gb, so I'll finally be able to host all my files here rather than on my current ISP account (which I will likely close next year sometime when I move).

While all this was happening, I decided to move the noates.com domain over to the bur.st nameservers, rather than leave the ugly forwarding that was here before. However, never having done this, I bumbled through it and the domain was in limbo for a while before I worked out that it wouldn't be enabled on bur.st's end until early tomorrow. Plus it stuffed up my email (please email me again if you tried and I bounced). So I've put it back to normal hopefully, but will try again soon.

btw if you need to reach me and my email bounces, try noates at zipworld dot com dot au.

Site reorganized
The main page was getting a bit bulky, so I split it into different pages for each product, with the main page as an index. It should allow me to edit the pages easier as I usually get lost in all the nested tables...
I also added Google AdSense ads, I'm not sure it's worth it but I thought why not give it a try.

Forums offline
I had to take the forums offline. They weren't used very much and took up the bulk of the limited space I have. I'll try to incorporate the info they contained into a FAQ, and they may make a return in the future.

On the plus side, I fixed the blog's CSS, and now have room to write posts here

Space
Due to space issues (the whole site has to fit in 2MB!) I've had to delete some stuff and I managed to stuff the blog's formatting, hopefully when I have time I will fix it.