Author Archives: Steve

How not to bill customers

I recently decided to move my Gas and Electricity supplies to one provider rather than 2 – estimated savings of about �200. I was with NPower for my electricity. I’ve been paying by Direct Debit for years. Anyway we got … Continue reading

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Netscape – what a bunch of Morons

No doubt others have experienced this on their blogs: You have Trackbacks enabled and the trackbacks fill up with crap posted there by scum advertising drugs, pornography and so on. S I’ve been having a lot of problems with crap … Continue reading

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More Cheesy thoughts

This is a sort of a follow up to my previous entry about Cheese – specifically Americans and Cheese I was over in the US for the past couple of weeks and had the rather unfortunate experience of eating some … Continue reading

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Linux

At the weekend I replaced the broken power connector on our old Toshiba SA30. I tidied it up, defragged it all and then applied the latest set of Microsoft patches. Thats where it all went wrong – system just hung … Continue reading

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Trackbacks

I’ve been reading up on Trackbacks and how they are supposed to work. I think I now understand it – but I did find an article by Shai Coggins that puts it in a nice easy to understand way. Shai’s … Continue reading

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Kitchen DIY

I have to admit that the kitchen renovations had stalled in a pretty major way. This was mostly down to the fact that house was obviously built by people who knew very little about plastering which led to a major … Continue reading

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Forum Revamp

In the background I’ve been working on a complete overhaul of the Camsigh Forums. I put the site up in January 2004 and I’ve bolted a few things on since then, but it was all getting very messy and tired … Continue reading

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Google Ads

Well I’m quite pleased with myself. The mod to support google ads in the phpbb forums only handles text ads. I wanted to put in some of the referrer ads so I wrote a little bit of php code which … Continue reading

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Phew!

Well the e-commerce site is up and running at www.ladykat.co.uk I’ve been working on a rather large silly project to “recover” some old phpbb forum posts from html file dumps. It was hard work but fun.. the fruits of that … Continue reading

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Off doing other things

Well I’ve been busy. I’ve been building an e-commerce website for my wife which has been taking up quite a bit of my time. I’ve also been working on a Wiki, including writing some really complex wiki extensions and I’m … Continue reading

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