I've just arrived back in Australia after a month in Korea with my wife. It was a fantastic trip, and I met a lot of my in-laws who I'd never met before.
I got back, though, to find that the forums had become overrun by spammers! Sometimes I hate the internet... Anyway, the spam is all gone and I've enabled email confirmation before you register (not sure why it wasn't there in the first place). I'm also hoping to recruit some more members of the community as moderators, though there hasn't been a lot of activity there in recent weeks. I hope all the spam didn't scare everybody off permanently!
I really want to try and skin the forums like the blog, but phpBB skinning is a bit of a pain. Maybe if I get a week or so of free time, I can give it a go. I think the first step would be to set up PHP on my laptop and get a test system running so I don't mess up the live forums. It also means I don't spend a lot of time waiting for FTP uploads. I think that was the main problem I had last time I tried skinning the forums.
In programming news, I am continuing work on Elium, the RPG game that I've been involved with. I've also done some work on War Worlds, my own pet RTS project. My plan for War Worlds is to build an online community of RTS players where we can hold ranked matches and online events and all sorts of things. Of course, that's still a long way off, but I'm hoping to have some extra news on that front in the coming days.
I'm hoping to blog more and more about my two projects in the future as well. I've been a bit slack, but I've always known that blogging can really help to give a sense of progress to a project. We'll see how we go anyway :)