This site’s domain expires on 14/09/2010, I think it’s also the time around which I’ll have to renew my hosting. I’ve been thinking about this, a lot. For one renewing this hosting & domain would be somewhere in the region of £70, however I look at it I always get the feeling the price has jumped up by about £15 since last year. Secondly I want a server in the UK, and a UK domain name.
I considered building my own Mini-ITX server, until my dad changed us from a fixed IP address to a dynamic one when he decided to move ISPs from BT to Virgin Media.
And lastly this whole blog has been slowly petering out, it’s a good place for photo dumps, and long articles, but I tend more towards photo dumps, or just leaving the entire thing alone. This blog was a natural step along a chain from blogger.com to wordpress.com to WordPress installed on a hosted server.
This has been my longest running blog but now there’s nothing new to move on to, and my appetite for blogging has slowed down considerably. So for the time being I’m going to backup everything on this server to our big networked hard drive and wait for the renewal time to tick by.
I did however come up with a new idea, whilst doing journalism at the Morning Star I came across the London film co-operative. They show fairly obscure films such as environmental documentaries, social realist dramas, biased historical documentaries, basically anything slightly radical which isn’t easily available.
If you read this blog carefully you’ll know that I’m a fan of Sergei Eisenstein and his epic dramas. That’s why I used the Battleship Potemkin as my first example of HTML5 video, because I like it, it’s film history. However, the London Socialist film co-operative has a flaw; it’s in London. I tried to get to their cinema and got lost. It’s let down by being in a physical location. So, I announce a new website, not a blog, a film archive. To be more precise it would be a radical film archive.
It would run on Trade Union UK web hosting, no more than 1 gigabyte of space and 10 gigabytes of bandwidth. Films will be stored on Amazon’s hosting service and the site will just link to Amazon. All the films should be available as torrents for me to download and then upload them. Wherever possible I’ll try to include films in an ogg or matroska container.
It’s with great trepidation that I’m letting this blog go, before I do though here are some of the stats I had been holding off publishing:
Views graph since October last year

Traffic sources

Twitter accounted for roughly 10% of all visitors. Total visit count was 1,286.
Average time on site was 1:06 minutes
Browser capability was split up as follows:
- Firefox 45.57%
- Chrome 28.15%
- Internet Explorer 17.50%
All Your Internet Are Belong To Us was the most visited post.
I suppose the last thing I can do is to get everyone to cut off any incoming links. I might continue to post here between now and the end date, but don’t link to it as it’ll all soon be gone. Now all hurry into your lifeboats, the ship is sinking!


























