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Happy new year!
Filed under: — orudge @ 01/01/2010 12:13 am
Just a quick message to wish all visitors to my site a very happy new year. 
10 years of owenrudge.net!
Filed under: — orudge @ 28/11/2009 7:32 am
Well, to be more precise, 10 years of Owen’s Visual Basic Workshop, which then evolved into the site you see before you. It was the 28th of November 1999 when I launched my first web site, and it’s grown significantly since then! I’ll hopefully post a new blog later today (I’ve been meaning to post on for over a month now, but been quite busy), and shall likely comment on the anniversary later on.
In the mean time, here’s to another ten years!
Foxamp 0.3.10 released
Filed under: — orudge @ 26/08/2009 12:17 pm
A minor update to Foxamp has been released. Version 0.3.10 fixes an annoying bug whereby Foxamp would display a “Winamp is not running” message every 5 seconds if Winamp was indeed not running and Foxamp was unable to start it. If your Firefox is set to automatically check for updates, it should receive the update shortly – if not, you can manually download it here.
Owen’s Locomotion Depot launched!
Filed under: — orudge @ 07/08/2009 1:36 pm
Yes, just five years after Chris Sawyer’s Locomotion was released, my new Locomotion site has launched! To be more specific, I have taken over the site from Stephen Brandwood, who hadn’t the time to maintain it, and relaunched it. The site’s content has been updated, the design improved, and I intend to provide more updates when I can in the future. If you have any comments or queries on the new site, please get in touch!
Foxamp 0.3.9 released
Filed under: — orudge @ 06/08/2009 3:39 pm
I have released an update to Foxamp. Foxamp 0.3.9 adds support for Firefox 3.5, so if you’ve upgraded Firefox, you’ll want to install the new version.
owenrudge.net is 9 (and a bit) years old!
Filed under: — orudge @ 29/11/2008 1:03 am
Well, I’m an hour late, but yesterday, owenrudge.net turned 9 years old! Yep, on the 28th of November 1999 I launched “Owen’s Visual Basic Workshop”, which gradually evolved into the site you see today.
About Me update
Filed under: — orudge @ 24/06/2008 8:40 pm
I’ve finally updated the About Me page with more information, well, about me! To be more precise, I’ve split it up into a few different pages, depending on what you want to know about me, and I’ve updated details of the likes of the open source projects I’ve worked on.
On another, unrelated, note, I’m thinking I will stick my entire site in a Subversion repository, to make maintenance easier, and also to provide a nice history feature – if I update something and break it entirely, I can go back and figure out what caused the breakage a lot more easily. While this’ll make more or less no difference to you, the end user and visitor, it’ll be beneficial to me.
Foxamp 0.3.8 released
Filed under: — orudge @ 17/06/2008 7:47 pm
I’ve released a new version of Foxamp, version 0.3.8. New in this version is support for Firefox 3.0 (which was released today). The helper application that retrieves the song title and performs some miscellaneous functions is also faster and more efficient, and the playlist number and Winamp title are no longer included in the status bar. If you use Winamp and Firefox, check it out.
Happy birthday, site!
Filed under: — orudge @ 29/11/2007 5:20 pm
Yes, I missed the actual birthday again, but yesterday, owenrudge.net turned eight! Eight years… time does fly! Eight years and one day ago, back in 1999, I launched “Owen’s Visual Basic Workshop”, and, after many changes indeed, here we are today, with a nice new design, and the odd bit of updated content too! It’s also funny to think that some of the content on the site is now 11 years old (the 1996 archived stuff in the blog) – madness! And apparently, I can’t end a sentence without an exclamation mark!
Anyway, who knows where the site will go over the next year? Probably not too far, admittedly, as I’m rather busy with real life, although I’ll hopefully find some time to finish up the new Repository at some point. We’ll have to see… some exciting things in the pipeline, potentially.
Happy birthday, owenrudge.net!
The return of the guestbook
Filed under: — orudge @ 17/08/2007 3:16 pm
After being absent from this site for about a year, the guestbook is now back, with a significantly lower level of spam than previously. There’s still a bit kicking around, as I haven’t got rid of it all yet, but compared with before, there’s quite a bit less! Feel free to leave a comment if you have anything to say! I’ll work on the theme for the main owenrudge.net guestbook soon – the TT Station guestbook is fully-integrated into the site design, though. Have fun!
The Ultimate Transport Tycoon Game Repository: version 2
Filed under: — orudge @ 16/08/2007 10:50 pm
Well, the other day, GoneWacko inspired me to start working again on the new version of the Repository. The old version hasn’t really been updated since it was written back in 2001, and it really shows. Particularly the fact that most of the links to scenarios are broken. The new site works rather nicely, and can analyse saved games to pull up a ridiculous amount of data, all nicely accessible from within the site. Hopefully, the inspiration will last long enough for me to finish it and get the site out sometime in the next few weeks. We will see. Got any suggestions for features for the new site? Let me know!
TT station update: new version of soundtrack MP3s uploaded
Filed under: — orudge @ 20/07/2007 6:55 pm
Some news from the Transport Tycoon Station: as well as a few assorted minor updates, I have uploaded an updated version of Mircea Pavîlcu’s rendition of the Transport Tycoon Deluxe soundtrack to the site. This fixes some issues with the bass in the previous version. You can download the MP3s here. There’s also a new download available that contains all the MP3s in a single zip file. Give the music a try, it’s good. 
Welcome to the new look owenrudge.net!
Filed under: — orudge @ 16/06/2007 3:29 pm
Well, if you visited the blog yesterday, you’ll have seen the new look, which has now been rolled out to the rest of owenrudge.net! (Except the guestbook, which I intend to bring back from the dead soon, and the photo gallery, which I’m working on). The new look is a lot cleaner and generally more pleasant than the old site, in my opinion, and people I’ve talked to seem to like it. Feel free to leave a comment saying what you think! While going through and updating the code (the site is entirely XHTML 1.0 Transitional valid), I also updated a load of the content – the Age of Empires section is no more, for instance, as it effectively consisted of one page! (You can still find that page here should you want to download the campaign.) I also updated other pages such as the About Me page, some of the GEM pages, and various things hither and thither.
Enjoy!
An update to the TT Station!
Filed under: — orudge @ 10/03/2007 6:30 pm
It’s time for my yearly update to the Transport Tycoon Station, and after many years, I’ve finally completed one of those pages that said “This page will be completed soon”. Only one of them though, I’m afraid. 
I’ve also uploaded some new, high quality renditions of the TT Music, and performed a few assorted updates here and there. Enjoy!
Foxamp 0.3.7 (for Firefox 2.0) released
Filed under: — orudge @ 20/12/2006 10:48 pm
I’ve finally released an update to Foxamp (which had been sitting on my hard disk for a couple of months, sorry!) which enables support for Firefox 2.0. It will work for all Firefox 2.0.x versions. Download it here.
owenrudge.net is 7 years old!
Filed under: — orudge @ 28/11/2006 4:02 pm
Seven years, wow. On the 28th November 1999, I launched “Owen’s Visual Basic Workshop”, on the domain www.orudge.freeuk.com. It expanded to feature things other than Visual Basic, and in 2000, it became owenrudge.co.uk. The site grew and grew, and in 2002, owenrudge.net was registered. The site didn’t actually “become” owenrudge.net until mid-2003, as I recall, though. Since then, bits of it have branched off, into the Transport Tycoon Station, The Transport Tycoon Forums and so on, but the core site is still here… seven years on. Happy birthday, owenrudge.net.
At long last, an update!
Filed under: — orudge @ 22/10/2006 4:45 pm
Well, after many months of neglect, I’ve updated my main site a little bit – specifically, I’ve updated the About Me page. Otherwise, I’ve just been generally busy with university and “real life”, as detailed in the blog. The main site will get updated randomly over time, though… honestly!
(Oh, and if you’re reading this on Facebook – or indeed, on Planet Tycoon – and it seems to make no sense, it’s because I import my “Notes” externally from my blog, and my web site’s news stories come from the blog. Yes, I’m a nerd.)
Happy birthday to me
Filed under: — orudge @ 09/07/2006 12:59 pm
Yep, today is my 19th birthday! Hurrah! And today shall mainly be spent packing and sorting things out here I think, as tomorrow I head off to Brazil.
An update!
Filed under: — orudge @ 06/07/2006 9:28 pm
Time to update the main site I think – yes, I am alive, although I haven’t been updating the main site all that much. Most of my time in recent months has been taken up by university, and this summer I’m travelling a lot. Check out the latest updates on the blog.
Merry Christmas!
Filed under: — orudge @ 25/12/2005 11:15 pm
Hey all… hope you had a good Christmas. I had a fairly quiet day here in Wales, but it was enjoyable enough. Hope you all have a good New Year!