Category Archives: Peeves

Http spam?!

Over the last few days I’ve had thousands of requests from a small number of IP addresses. My bandwidth usage had doubled and when I logged on to find out why, I was dissapointed to find it wasn’t a huge surge in new visitors! :p I’ve since blocked the IP’s in question but, is this [...]
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Woods appointments don’t deliver

I don’t like to name and shame companies and I hardly ever do it, but I’d hate to see anybody else potentially lose money by purchasing leads from Woods appointments without seriously considering whether you may end up in the same position as our company. My business partner was phoned a few months back and [...]
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Radio times website is always down

I’ll often check out the radio times website to see what is currently on TV if I get some spare time. I’ve noticed that 1/5 times I go to the site, it is completely down and it is often very slow to load. I imagine the site could be quite busy but surely a site [...]
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Welcome Internet Explorer 6 users!

When designing and coding the template for this blog I didn’t have access to IE6 (thanks MS), but I finally got hold of Virtual PC and managed to sort out a number of issues that made it look worse than it is supposed to be! Unfortunately there are still many people using IE6, at least [...]
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