Jem – UK blogger

This is probably the most complicated thing I’ve ever had to work out in my entire life: /^MK([1-9]|1[0-5]|17|19|77) [0-9]{1,2}[A-Z]{1,2}$/i

I think I had a panic attack on the way home from work today. I’ve never felt anything like it in my entire life. I couldn’t breathe, and the harder I tried the worse it became. I had an overwhelming urge to cry but nothing came out. It was as if I was going to… read full entry »

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… read full entry »

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… read full entry »

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… read full entry »

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. :)

Because of popular demand — OK, one request — I’ve added a feed for my faq page.

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…. read full entry »

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… read full entry »

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… read full entry »