What’s up with Wordpress 2.6 upgrade
Upgraded to Wordpress version 2.6 today and unfortunately, the blog collapsed giving 404, page not found errors on every post.
The site was hosted on a wind-oze server where .htaccess was not allowed and so I used a custom permalink as in /index.php/%postname%/ as the recommended work around. This is causing [...]

Those nice people at Mozilla, as well as releasing version 3 of the Firefox browser in the next few days are also going to try for the Guinness world record for the most software downloaded in 24 hours.
I’ll certainly be one of the downloaders, it’s a much better browser than IE. If you feel [...]

How does it work?
The following is a little simplistic but in essence shows how hosting works. Your website will be held on a machine with a fast connection to the internet. That machine is identified through it’s ip address. When you type in to your browser www.yourdomain.com the protocol used will look up the [...]

It’s a confusing business this, when you’re thinking of having a website for the first time. There are so many things you’ve never heard of and a Domain Name is just one of them. In this post I’ll try to explain what it is, what it does and how, what it will give you [...]

I make efforts to get relevant and established sites to link to me, and I approach some that I think my visitors may be interested in.
Why then do I receive so many pointless mass emails asking imaker to link to them in return for a very poor reciprocal link. Always on the look-out for [...]

Back in May I posted about the amount of spam I was receiving. Like everyone else I know, they’re receiving an absolute deluge of the stuff particularly over the last couple of months and any defence has become very valuable. My inbox is pretty well taken care of, but the amount of “comment” [...]

Are there any?
Every day I look through my emails and there they are. Pharmacies, stocks to follow, bank accounts that I need to validate, ebay, PayPal, diplomats and on and on. They arrive and two clicks later depart unopened, unread and unloved.

Unfortunately this site and many others were hit when our hosting provider’s servers were badly mangled by an attack, apparently by someone with a grudge against the host.
Most of the sites have now been recovered and business carries on. However it re-emphasises the issues of ‘disaster recovery’ and plain old fashioned ‘backup policies’. [...]