The floodgates opened at 4pm GMT for those looking to buy .me domains; GoDaddy in fact crawling to a halt shortly after rendering checkout a gruelling 20-25 minute process. Unfortunately it seems that all dictionary words (e.g. “code.me”) were taken. I’m not sure if these have been reserved for auction or taken the second registration […]
Month: July 2008
My StumbleUpon Beating
I’m currently being pounded by StumbleUpon users thumbs-up’ing my geek t-shirts page, so will finally see tonight whether WordPress is capable of filling the gaps that my custom blog system left wide open. Just to be on the safe-side, I’ve installed WP Super Cache, which was the primary reason for ditching the theme switcher and […]
BellaBiblio Amazon Ajax Bug
There’s a problem with the Ajax book finder in the current version of BellaBiblio, caused by an update on Amazon’s side of things. There is a patch which was sent over to me by Mat earlier today for those running PHP5 only, but because I’m “mid-report” for my course I’ve not had time to give […]
What a Size Difference!
Fudgeybuckets, 10th May 2008 (the day we got him) at approximately 5 weeks old: Fudge last week, 5th July 2008, now approximately 14 weeks old: I am pleased with how well he’s doing, despite his awful start to life. :)
FAQ Page Feed
Because of popular demand — OK, one request — I’ve added a feed for my faq page.
Holy Bundled Software, Batman!
Last week, I installed Netscape 4.79 on a virtual machine to verify my bold claims only to end up with: Netscape Navigator AOL Instant Messenger RealPlayer Winamp Netscape Messenger Netscape Composer …as well as palm top sync tools and a bunch of utilities. And people tell me Microsoft are bad for bundling software, pfft! PS. […]
Frozen Midnight Staff Confession
When I first posted my theories on Frozen Midnight a year ago, I had no idea what kind of reaction it would get (from the company or its users). Little did I know that so many existing and ex-customers would come forward with their stories of outrageous fees and unnecessary charges. No less than 8 […]
Chyrp: Lightweight Blogging Engine
I’ve currently got an ongoing project at work, part of which entails redeveloping a website and providing a news section. Given the functionality needed (not a lot) I would normally knock something together with PHP and MySQL, give it a basic admin panel and make do. This is totally sufficient, and would normally take maybe […]
Oh Dear
How does one back out of a verbal contract made in jest? It’s not binding, right?
Deliciousness!
I just harvested my first home-grown courgette :9