Has your data allowance maxed out? It might be because it hasn’t.
I maxed out my 40GB residential data allowance this month. Mainly on Monday. When I wasn't using my computer. So I contacted my ISP. Two days later, they called me, to explain that while I'd been accessing unmetered content heavily over Easter (guilty - binge watching...
Domain names… who owns them?
Is your domain name really yours? Unfortunately, no, not on many levels. Firstly, you don't own a domain name when you pay for it. You pay for the registration of that domain name for a fixed period. It can easily become "someone else's" if you fail to renew the...
Shipping method not displayed after upgrade to WooCommerce 2.6.2
Upgraded a website to the latest version of the e-commerce platform WooCommerce. Shipping options disappeared, no longer available - customers would simply have been unable to pay for shipping. I'd made no changes to shipping settings. Thought to myself, "hmmm... wade...
GIMP 2, EPS, Adobe Illustrator, Could not interpret Postscript file
You can use GIMP to open and edit EPS files created by Abode Illustrator. In previous versions this required installing Ghostscript and setting up a system environment variable used by GIMP to locate the Ghostscript executable. GIMP now bundles the Ghostscript library...
When service providers do you a disservice: Malicious code false positive – Dashicons.css base64,d09GRgABA…
Half the reason I wanted to overhaul my website was to add a blog section so I could post about the things that took an inordinate amount of time to resolve, that shouldn't have. Or, in this case, that shouldn't have happened at all. I received an alert from one of...
Buy Tassie honey online…
I've just added a shopping cart to the website of Tasiliquidgold - "The Honey Pot". While these guys initially thought they wouldn't have much call for online shopping, their customers thought otherwise. So, rather than doing everything manually, we've added online...
Taroona Primary School Christmas auction
I've offered a website as an item in the 2014 Taroona Primary School online Christmas auction. The short story is I'm offering website development up to a value of around $2000-$3000, minus all the recurrent/ongoing costs involved in having a website. The long story...
Meta blog
I've finally added a blog to my own website. You're reading it. I plan to use this area for news and also to include some articles that might be useful for other people in the crazy world of IT - such as when I find a "gotcha" in something I'm working on, and can then...