Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
I recently received another reminder that my hosting service was overdue for payment, having ignored the previous reminder. As my frustration was short-lived and I realised I bore no ill-will to the company, and that judging by the status reports their support service appears to have returned to the ...
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Friday, June 6th, 2008
A few months back I was having trouble with UKFSN, my hosting provider at the time. Part of the trouble was not being billed for my hosting account, which, along with other problems, pushed me to move my hosting package to Memset instead. I sent a couple of ...
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Monday, April 14th, 2008
Here's the dilly yo. The renewal date for my domain was due recently. Normally that isn't a problem, as I pay someone some money and retain control of the domain for another year or two. However, as the first automated e-mail I received about this was from ...
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
It's at times like these that I would rather I were a bit more knowledgeable about various internet services. I'm currently unsure whether I have gone wrong in setting something up or if I just need to wait for DNS records to propagate.
Right now, the best thing I think ...
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Saturday, March 29th, 2008
My Google Reader subscription has now picked up the feed for this blog. It didn't before today, and that may have been because I was using a release candidate of Wordpress, whereas now I am using the full release, although I would have thought that the RSS link would ...
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
This is mildly interesting: if I include the OpenDNS servers in my internet configuration I can connect to my MSN Messenger account in Adium, but then I get DNS problems connecting to this subdomain, which means I can't view my own blog some of the time. If I remove ...
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