Archive for June, 2008

Google Adsense down

Sunday, June 8th, 2008

On my way to bed, thought I'd check AdSense one last time but got: The Google AdSense website is temporarily unavailable. Please try back later. We apologize for any inconvenience. Even the big guys have bad days. So I had a quick look at the Google Blog Search to see what others were saying about ...

osCommerce-2.2rc2a

Saturday, June 7th, 2008

Installed the latest stable osCommerce distribution today, on a new domain. It's a slightly newer version than the one that's providing the Lolyco.com shop. The installer is a breeze. There's a chance I overlooked some of the installer's complaints last time. On the front page of the installer there's a ...

Where are you all coming from?

Friday, June 6th, 2008

People ask me where I'm from. I'm from the UK. I grew up in the South East of England, on Canvey Island in the Thames Estuary. Around age 20 I moved to the Lake District, and settled for a while near Lancaster. I have very fond memories of Lancaster and ...

TM Net SDSL to Residential address

Friday, June 6th, 2008

After a warning from one of the regular posters at WebMasterMalaysia, I checked the Terms and Conditions for my Streamyx service. There's no prohibition of home servers in there, so that's a relief. The search for increased upstream bandwidth goes on though. I phoned 1-300-88-9515 today, and Edward checked with his ...

Procrastination will have to come back another time

Friday, June 6th, 2008

A little pep talk can work wonders, thanks to Ekompute at WebMasterMalaysia. He has got some interesting projects on the go - check out his wikipedia for the time-challenged: dummipedia.org. Wanting to get a blog up and running on lolyco.com, I had a quick read of wikipedia (I am predictable) and ...