We’ve expanded to two new irc networks over the past couple weeks, and would like to give a warm welcome to both the Earth Empires and gCode irc networks, we look forward to providing our service for these networks and the great communities they have.

Earth Empires is also a free browser based strategy game where you take control of your nation’s military and economy, it’s easy to create an account and free to play with no download required.

So if you’re into the genre of online browser based games it’s definitely worth checking out, best of all there’s plenty of time to play uno with the friendly users of both irc networks in between.

If you haven’t already noticed, the irc uno site has been moved to its shiny new home at http://ircuno.com/, the old site now just shows a link to the new site, so if you haven’t already updated your links now would be a good time.

In addition the site is sporting our newer design and comes with a few tweaks, including a status page showing the networks our bots are on, ping times, etc.. renamed matches to history, and newer round logs will show charts indicating card counts through the game and how long it takes players to play a card.

I’ve updated the OFNA Hyper 10SC page with new pictures of my current R/C truck that has a shiny new custom painted body, the page has also been re-organized a bit. To check it out just hit up the R/C Stuff dropdown above and click OFNA Hyper 10SC.

Over the past week I’ve been trying to optimize the site and blog due to resource use, the site and blog should be running a bit faster now as a result.

The site has also had some tweaks to hopefully improve the pages and content around the site. More changes will be coming in the near future along with further changes to our backend.

Our one of a kind IRC Uno service will surpass 1,000,000 cards played in the next few weeks which will set an amazing milestone, it might even be the first service to pass that many cards played.

In addition to that, all of the cards played so far amount to well over 12,000,000 points total, so come join us and play a few rounds in #uno on the GlobalGamers irc network.

In other news, the trial run of the ChaoticNetworks irc network is still underway, however due to the lack of activity there (eg.. none), odds are the bot will be saying farewell to that network in the coming weeks.

It’s that time again, I’ve added a dedicated Minecraft section on the site under Games, there you can find screenshots I’ve taken, videos I’ve produced and my texture packs for download, I’ll hopefully be adding more content in the future as I continue to play and mess with textures.

If you’re a fan of the default textures or the Faithful 32×32 texture pack, then you’ll probably like my tweaked version of faithful on my texture packs page, so feel free to check it out.

In other news I’ve been working on the backend of the site for the past week, if you notice any broken links then by all means let me know, the directory structures have changed a bit to make things easier.