Archive for the ‘General’ Category
Wednesday, November 4th, 2009
I received an email from Snapnames today. I was a bit surprised as it was not the normal announcement that my domains were going to expire (they never end lol). Snapnames has had the need to come clean bout their Snapnames service.
It seems that an employee of Snapnames has been bidding on auctions using a faked account to drive prices up. What is more they have been ciphering money from refunds.
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Tags: Address, Auct, Auction Winner, Auctions, Bid, Email, Extent, False Name, Fictitious Account, Incremental Revenue, Instances, Lol, Money, Moniker, Occasions, Remedy, Snapnames, Unfortunate Incident
Posted in Domaining, General | 5 Comments »
Thursday, October 15th, 2009
I recently started an Open university course. It has been a long time since I studied and I really need to buckle down and learn how to do it again.
While browsing the OU forums recently I came across a post from people who could not get their head around binary and Hex. The following is the explanation I provided, it seems to have helped some so maybe it will help the wider community as well
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Tags: Binary Value, Hex, Hexadecimal, Long Time, Mindset, Open University, Total Value
Posted in General, PHP, Programming In General | No Comments »
Saturday, August 22nd, 2009
Back in when I started with web sites I decided to create a fan site for a film I liked. The film is called Cradle Of Fear and is the brain child of Alex Chandon and starred such people as Emily Booth, David McKewan and also a band I was quite big into at the time, namely Cradle Of Filth.
That particular website is not currently up and running any more (I keep meaning to resurrect it but never getting the time).
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Tags: Alex Chandon, Booth David, Brain Child, Cradle Of Fear, Cradle Of Filth, Emily Booth, Fan Site, Mckewan
Posted in Domaining, General, My Sites | 2 Comments »
Sunday, June 7th, 2009
Sometime ago I had posted about a Wordpress plugin that enables you to see how many users you have on your blog. Well good news, I have now released an updated version with all new features. Not only this but the plugin now has a new home. (more…)
Tags: Admin Panel, Blog, Dashboard Widget, Favour, Forum Scripts, How Many People, linkedin, New Features, Page Views, People Online, Scripts, Support Forum
Posted in General, PHP, Programming In General, SEO | No Comments »
Wednesday, April 15th, 2009
Came home from work today and have started getting a lot of alerts regarding nefarious URL’s being requested on this very blog.
Luckily enough I have SEO egghead’s Firewall Plugin (more…)
Tags: Blog, Egghead, Firewall, Php File, Plugins, security, SEO, Sql, Url, Variable Id, wordpress, Wp
Posted in General, PHP, SEO | No Comments »
Monday, January 26th, 2009
INTRODUCTION
Recently I have been dealing with a domain theft. Trying to locate information and warning the original user. 1 thing this process has brought to light is the little people know about securing domain names.
The following is my thoughts on how to best secure your domain names. This is by no means a complete guide however if you think you can add too it please feel free in commenting and I will keep this post updated. (more…)
Tags: Bottom Line, Cctld, Correspondence, Domain Names, Domains, Email Address, False Information, Hack Email, Hard Contact, Icann, linkedin, People Names, Privacy Service, Private Individuals, Regist, Risk, Securing Your Domain Name, security, theft, Whois Email, Whois Service, Wipo
Posted in General | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, November 20th, 2007
I received the Assassin’s Creed game on the XBox 360 on Friday.
After much delays and anticipation does it satisfy or disappoint. (more…)
Tags: Anticipation, Assassin, Creed, Developers, Good Game, Guess, Map, Multi Player, Player Mode, Playing Time, Plunge, Profile, Sequences, Sessions, Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox Live
Posted in General | No Comments »
Sunday, November 11th, 2007
Matt Cutts has recently posted an article about Fuzz Testing.
For those of you that are unaware fuzz testing is the art of testing a piece of software by giving it random input. The reason this can be effective is that it can trigger unforeseen bugs within an application. In fact Matt gives an example of tests carried out on UNIX software which found that a substantial percentage of softwares were vulnerable and the fuzz testing caused the application to crash. (more…)
Tags: Beaten Path, Bugs, Eventuality, Exploits, Firefox, Fuzz, Good Reason, google, Hackers, Internet Explorer, Internet User, Linux, Macos, Matt Cutts, Obscurity, Operating System, Random Input, Substantial Percentage, Unix, Unix Software
Posted in General, PHP, Programming In General, SEO | No Comments »
Friday, November 9th, 2007
Flexi Web Host are currently holding a 50% discount sale.
By using the code NOV-DEAL when you go through the checkout process you will automatically receive a 50% discount on hosting that you are currently ordering. The discount is valid for the current invoice so to make the most of the offer you should choose a longer hosting period.
Tags: Checkout, Current, Flexi Web, Invoice, Web Host, Web Promotion
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Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
It has been reported that the latest version of Wordpress is still vulnerable to abuse.
Jaimie Sirovich over at SEO Egg Head today reported that on returning from holiday he found that his blog had been hit by what he calls a HTML tainting attack. (more…)
Tags: Blog, Domain Names, Egg Head, Hack, Names Domain, SEO, Today Reported That
Posted in General, SEO | No Comments »