Got an email from Geocities

Got an email from Geocities – that company that used to be so good until it got taken over by Yahoo and the greedy execs arrived! They said that as I had not updated one of my sites (not my main old one thankfully) they would delete it unless it was updated within 30 days. Went to look at the web site and it was already deleted! Dunno why anyone continues to use them nowadays 🙁

Thought I’d take advantage of

Thought I’d take advantage of the break today and work on creating a work around to the isp changing config or something on my webserver where my pages were not being served up correctly. However, checking it today the page worked fine, so it obviously just needed a reboot. Still it meant less work for me to do so its not too bad (although I am having serious questions about the reliability and performance of this host.)
UpdateThe website was rebooted 1 minute ago!

In a round up of

In a round up of the news from The Register this morning, Nominet have backed down and now won’t include personal details for owners of new (and renewing) .uk domains. This should provide us with some privacy. Businesses will have to provide details though!

BT have lost their idiotic claim that they patented hyperlinks and therefore they wanted royalties. Thankfully a judge has seen sense and thrown out the claim which means that we wont have to give yet more of our money to BT

Microsoft have brought out yet another humungous patch for ie that aims to include all previous patches. Check and download if you are not up to date!