Reverse DNS (PTR records) is extremely useful. However when your office PC(s) are infected with viruses and basically spamming the entire country it might be quite embarassing. A well known Irish company ran into this issue earlier this week when a PC or PCs in their office started sending out emails to hundreds of Irish companies (both real and imagined). Unfortunately for the … [Read more...] about The Downside To Reverse DNS
How NOT To Start A Web Design Business….
Spamming and lying plain and simple. Ripe claim to be "Ireland's Leading Web Design Company".... Ok. By what measure? Their >own website is a template Monster one. They haven't won any awards. Although they claim their site is XHTML 1.0 Transitional it isn't. If you're going to claim to be a leading web design company I'd have thought validating your site would be a good … [Read more...] about How NOT To Start A Web Design Business….
Whitedust.net Revamped
WhiteDust has been revamped for the new year. The new look and feel is quite nice, but some people have found issues with it. Running it through something like SiteVista would help to squash those bugs :) I ran it through the w3c validator and found that although it did throw errors most of them could be easily rectified. All in all it looks well and I hope the content in 2007 … [Read more...] about Whitedust.net Revamped
Webhosting.info Puts Blacknight No. 2
I've mentioned webhosting.info's hosting stats several times over the past couple of years. While I still do not find them to be 100% accurate I would consider them to be a relatively good barometer of relative sizes etc., During the course of 2006 Blacknight's growth was steady and healthy (screenshot from domaintools) If you look at our overall position compared to our … [Read more...] about Webhosting.info Puts Blacknight No. 2
Taxi Rocks
I'd forgotten how good the Taxi films were (the original French ones not the American junk pretending to be a film) My sister gave me the first two films on DVD a couple of years ago, but I lent them to someone and only got them back last week (note to self - don't lend that person DVDs if I want to see them again) Anyhow Taxi 3 was the only one of the trilogy that I didn't … [Read more...] about Taxi Rocks