http://www.blograndom.com/blog Technology, website development, reviews and how-to's Thu, 25 Sep 2008 21:43:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I'm a bit of a Killers fan. I loved hot Fuss, liked Sam's Town and am hoping I'll like new album. I seem to be on the losing side but I like their new song, Human. Once it hits the charts I think people will suddenly change their minds and ... http://www.blograndom.com/blog/the-killers-human-lyrics-denser-not-dancer/ If you have an internet connection and have tried the obvious (firewalls, restarting the computer, etc) and you still can't stream songs from napster it may be that your Windows Media Player settings have decided to randomly change. I had to phone up Napster support in the end, having tried everything ... http://www.blograndom.com/blog/napster-wont-stream-songs-anymore/ I spent two hours today trying to figure out why paypal wasn't sending any instant payment notifications (IPN) to one of our new projects. Everything seemed right, I had notify_url in the form, the script could be accessed remotely, I had logging on for http and the script itself. After ... http://www.blograndom.com/blog/paypal-ipn-from-the-sandbox-not-working/ It may seem obvious to most, in fact, its obvious to me... but, don't leave a magnet resting on your laptop (above the hard drive) while you go to lunch! I came back from lunch today and the guys in the office were looking at me worriedly. I asked why and ... http://www.blograndom.com/blog/magnets-macbook-pro-bad/ I've been trying to find the start dates for a few of my favourite TV series over the last week as I think this is the start of the winter season. I don't watch that much TV, but I like to get hold of a few series and watch them ... http://www.blograndom.com/blog/tv-series-air-dates/ 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 ... http://www.blograndom.com/blog/http-spam/ 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 ... http://www.blograndom.com/blog/woods-appointments-dont-deliver/ At the office we recently upgraded out phone system to use sip phones and chose some linksys SPA-941's. I was looking for a way to display the caller ID of an incoming call on our computers and potentially the office display screen. Ideally I wanted something that would connect on the ... http://www.blograndom.com/blog/php-script-for-call-status-when-using-linksyssipura-devices/ In an attempt to speed up my imap access I moved old emails in to folders based on year. This speed up process majorly backfired when imap/mdir decided to make 7 copies of each email in the same folder. I ended up with 27,000 emails in my 2006 folder! With my ... http://www.blograndom.com/blog/deleting-duplicate-mdir-emails-using-php/ It has been a while since a post, I was hoping I wouldn't slip in to a bad routine. Thanks for the comments so far, especially for the rb-internal-links plugin, can't believe so many people are using it! Need to find a way to push it out there to more ... http://www.blograndom.com/blog/back-with-wordpress-25-rc1/