Archive for January, 2011
Oh.. blip
The site has been down this morning. For the first time (that I’m aware), I hit my bandwidth limit with Memset – thankfully, the limit resets tomorrow. For testing reasons I have had website compression turned off for a while which hasn’t helped, and the new site design that I’m working on will help with a [...]
WordPress Plugin Bug Tracking
For a while I’ve been wanting to improve the bug (and enhancements) tracking for my WordPress plugins. Right now I rely noting down my ideas and any suggestions that people have made and looking at that whenever I’m working on a plugin. Now, though, I’ve installed MantisBT – a free PHP based bug tracking system. I’ve installed it on [...]
Problems watching Blu-Ray movies on a PC
My shiny new Dell Zino HD has a Blu-Ray player and output. My monitor is an old (but good!) 17″ ViewSonic with a input, so I connect the two with an HDMI to DVI cable. All good. Or so I thought, until I tried to play my first Blu-Ray movie. The software – Cyberlink PowerDVD [...]
Editing a Flash Video
I’ve had a recent need to edit a downloaded Flash video (.FLV extension). However, my usual editor of choice, PowerDirector, wouldn’t import a file in this format. And, it would appear, editing choices for Flash videos are few and far between. First of, I used the online video editor, JayCut . It imported and converted the [...]
Replacing a Nintendo DS Case
I’ve recently become the proud owner of a Nintendo DS – it used to belong to my older daughter and has seen better days. In particular, the hinge was broken. It was also quite mucky (under the plastic, so not easily cleaned) and had various chips and scratches. Oh, and the battery compartment was missing. [...]
Did I Really Make Resolutions Last Year?
I’d forgotten, but I made some resolutions last year with regard to 2010 . Normally I don’t do any kind of New Years resolution so the giddiness of the event must have got to me. None-the-less, it’s a good reminder to me of why I don’t. 1. Less personal rants, unless it’s about customer service. I think I got the first part right, but didn’t [...]
Happy New Year!
I’ve been strangely quiet over Christmas and New Year. It’s a time for family anyway, but a nasty bought of flu had me knocked off my feet for most of last week. Even now I’m suffering (particularly at night) due to a nasty cough. However, I’m relatively recovered and back to normality. A few things [...]
WordPress 3.0.4 Released
Sods law said it had to happy. I upgraded my blog to the rather more bleeding-edge 3.1 RC1 and they release an essential security fix in the guise of 3.0.4. Oh. Anyway, ignoring my own predicament, this is a very important update to apply to your sites as soon as possible because it fixes a [...]
Earn cashback when shopping online.
Artiss.co.uk is checked by 
Pay As You Go mobile broadband is now preferred to Contract
Sales figures from the UK mobile broadband comparison site Broadband Expert show, for the first time, that people now prefer Pay as You Go mobile broadband to contract mobile broadband – the split is 53% to PAYG to 47% for contract deals. Rob Webber, from Broadband Expert has been quoted as saying… We’ve seen Pay as You Go [...]
Continue Reading