Either Harilda were reselling for these Super Duper Media Group people, or they’ve been absorbed by them, but from what I can work out Super Duper Media Group was where my stuff was eventually hosted. I’m not sure if it was a by-product of being handed around between so many companies, but I think I was forgotten about. I can’t remember the last time I was asked for payment on a subscription, I stayed within the limits of my plan and didn’t need to speak to them for help with my account so it wouldn’t surprise me if a mistake had been made somewhere and records of my account had been lost.

This was fine, as long as my hosting was still up I was happy. At one point I did send an email to Harilda and SDMG (I didn’t know where to address my message so sent it to every relevant email address I could find for both companies) asking about mapping my account to a different domain name, but got no response.

The problem came about recently when the hosting plan was cut off completely about a week ago. I’m not really sure why, maybe they were spring cleaning their servers and found all my files in a dusty heap round the back. I guess on one hand I can’t complain. I’m fairly sure that i was getting a free ride for around a year. On the other hand, them deleting everything without giving me a backup is pretty annoying. Having no notice emailed to me was pretty annoying.  Not receiving email through me @bencoveney.com address was pretty annoying. I could try and speak to them, but their website is just a holding page at the moment and previous attempts to email them have been pretty fruitless. For now I’ve just moved over to wordpress.com, because it does the job and is damn cheap.

I’m not sure whether I’m going to put too much effort into restoring old content. Maybe if i get bored enough…

http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F14916055&show_comments=true&auto_play=false&color=644527 Willy Bum Bum Remix by bencoveney

You can find the original here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrBj3u5dPgM

http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Fplaylists%2F692224&show_comments=true&auto_play=false&show_playcount=true&show_artwork=true&color=644527 Public Tracks by bencoveney

QR Code For Bencoveney.com

QR codes are a 2 dimensional bar code. Unlike the bar codes you find on products in a shop which have a series of lines to encode data, QR codes are made up of a grid of black and white squares. They are becoming increasingly popular lately, you may have seen them on the side of cans to be used in promotions or similar.

There are many types of 2D bar codes, but QR codes are one of the more popular formats. You can use them to encode a wealth of different things, for example text, a hyperlink or even wireless network access. This data can then be accessed by scanning or photographing the code using a camera or phone. Linking real world physical objects to online/computer content is called hardlinking. Generating codes is as simple as inputting your data into a form online, and he resulting image can be placed anywhere you can think of: on a business card, on a poster, even on clothing. QR code readers are available on many different devices, for example the iPhone.

A screenshot of the game Faultline

Faultline is a pretty cool flash game by Nitrome. A platform based puzzle game, you have to get from the start to the finish of each level by folding the level to avoid obstacles and create pathways.

Its small in size, at 16.5kb as opposed to kubrick’s 89.5kb. This theme file is really rough and mainly for my use, but feel free to download if you want to use it.

Skeleton Theme