Private Comment Problem Solved

A bone of contention on the site, and a personal pet hate of mine ever since we started the place in 1999 (but never a pet peeve enough for me to do much about it) is the absolute lack of nice themes available for beginner users to use. With that in mind we have decided…

No this isn’t an ad for Viagra – lol – I discovered a bijou issue in the front page code, which bodes well for other areas as I come across them. Basically I had misunderstood the caching of Smarty templates and although the front page was delivering its content from a cached database query, it…

Apologies. A coding glitch has meant that adverts have been inadvertantly appearing on users diaries if the right conditions were met, despite our assurance here. I’m actually surprised that no-one complained, but anyway, no-one did so perhaps you all don’t mind them as much as you said you did a while back! But either way,…

Why, in the name of all that is holy, would ANYONE host a PHP and PERL based site on Windows? You wouldn’t choose to, but not because of Windows. That said, both of them under Apache seem to be pretty decent, though PHP has some interesting issues, as usual. It costs more, is more buggy…

Just a quick update: We’ve brought online the other two payment methods supported by our authorised sales agent, IBill – This means that you can now pay in one of three ways: Credit Card (Visa/Mastercard) Online Check (US Banks only) 1-900 Phone Number (US Only) The 900 number works by just charging your phone the…

My apologies also for not removing the Taleban reference earlier. At the time of writing they were sending condolences of their own for the WTC disaster. They seem to (as usual) have gone back on that sentiment now however, so I should have updated the message. Apologies.