Over the course of the last few years I have dealt with a wide range of ICANN registrars and their resellers. Some experiences have been good, some fantastic and some excruciatingly painful.Which ones stick out? The bad ones of course!It is a well known fact that people remember bad service and, more importantly, talk about it more than they do about good service. About a year … [Read more...] about Why cheap domain registrars fail to deliver
How to react to terrorism
David's got an interesting entry on the US vs UK reactions to "terrorism" - I use inverted commas as the US definition of it is all encompassing .... I was living in Paris when there was a spate of bombings in the 90s and actually commuted via some of the affected stations. Life just went on, though people may have checked under their seats more often for "packages". The only … [Read more...] about How to react to terrorism
The death of phpbb?
According to Netcraft a number of hosting companies are banning the use of phpbb. Considering the number of security issues that the open source bulletin board software has had in the last 8 months, this move is not particularly surprising. However, as a spokesperson for the developers rightly pointed out: While phpBB has and no doubt will continue to suffer from exploits (show … [Read more...] about The death of phpbb?
Business insight from someone who should know
Bob Parson's latest blog entry caught my attention. Bob talks about how he did not "make it" the first time, or even the second. He lost fortunes before he finally made it. It may not teach you how he became a success, but it will show you that: You probably won't succeed the first time You are not alone You might succeed - he did Edit: Thanks to John for pointing out the … [Read more...] about Business insight from someone who should know
Rewrite conflicts – WordPress plugin hell :(
Although I managed to get an internal cosmos and tagging thing working last week I seem to have run into a rewrite rule conflict due to my choice of wordpress plugins. The feedburner plugin I installed a few weeks ago uses mod_rewrite to pass all requests for RSS feeds, regardless of the format, over to the feedburner URI. As the tagging plugin is also rewriting the URLs this … [Read more...] about Rewrite conflicts – WordPress plugin hell :(