Strangely Perfect

http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/ispphorm/ Please fill in the form (no pun intended – well actually, it is!) at the number 10′s office.  Phorm is clearly breaching or “avoiding” compliance with a host of moral and legal charters.  It seeks to monitor all users browsing habits, store them up and then flog them on to provide you with a [...]

Following on from my trial with Opera after my trying times with Firefox and Pipex, I’ve given the new Google browser, Chrome a go. So far it’s worked well, even as a beta.  It loads this website faster for me, as well as nearly everything else wonderfully, except… This morning my regular CTC newsletter arrived [...]

I don’t know what reasons are behind any of it, but it’s probably a combination of a corrupted Firefox profile and some weird goings on with my ISP, Pipex, (like here, say),but I’ve found that of the 3 main browsers, Opera works best with my websites. :-P Despite all I’ve previously said about Firefox being [...]

Less than a week ago, Virgin suffered an email outage of quite some time because of a flood of emails pouring in.  Spam causes Virgin email outage. Just afterwards, I had some domain problems with my ISP which are now resolved. ADSL, Pipex Blocks my Web Access, Weirdly! Now, starting about midnight last night, I [...]

I’ve got a weird problem with my internet access. I can access any website except my own, like this one! Specifically, all my domains hosted at ixWebhosting, I can’t see from my PC or any other in the house using any browser. I can access my domain host’s control panel, but bizarrely, the File Manager [...]

Having been playing with the neat Broken Link Checker plugin today, I discovered a few links that had gone or changed and set about fixing them.  During this process, I came across a mention about Arthur 2-Stroke who periodically self-promotes himself, even now.  I’d like to share this wonderful experience that I gleaned here at [...]