Mafia Wars: Add People and Grow Your List
How To Add People To You Mafia
Mafia Wars
I’ve been playing Mafia Wars on facebook for just a few days now and am having some success.
When I started playing, I only had a mafia of around 10 people. Things were tough: making money was slow and I was constantly being attacked by… Continue reading
UK VAT Registration Delays – Bonkers
I don’t usually post rants, but feel compelled to comment on the crazy situation with the UK Tax (VAT) system at the moment.
As a business trading in the UK,it is a legal requirement to register for VAT when you expect your turnover to exceed a threshold set by the government.
My company applied for VAT registration in December 2008 and, more than 3 months later we are… Continue reading
My new company: rolosoft.com
Today sees the launch of my company web site Rolosoft.com.
Its reason for “being” is to provide software and services that I have developed over the years.
Currently, there are 3 products available all geared towards solving common issues that companies face when developing ASP.Net web sites… Continue reading
Windows Vista SP1 – Installation Failure
My main desktop PC runs Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate x64. It has been running happily for many months and is stable.
In April 2008, Microsoft launched Service Pack 1 making it a required download via Windows Update.
It doesn’t install on my PC and leaves it in a continuous cycle of re-boots with error message:-
STOP: c0000139 {Entry Not Found} NtClearAllSavepointsTransaction could not be located
I have tried… Continue reading
Stopping Page Rank Hijacking
Today, I received an email from a marketing agency enquiring about advertising opportunities on my website. The confusing thing was that the website domain mentioned in the email isn’t owned by me!
On further investigation (by typing the “mystery” url into a browser) and to my utter amazement, up comes my own website content! It appears that some idiot has set their domain DNS records to point to my… Continue reading
Indonesia Trip: Siladen Resort & Spa
Here is a quick trip report of our (Lisa & I) trip to Indonesia in October 2007.
Broadband Speed Test. New Version goes live!
We’ve just put a new broadband speed test live over at my site Broadband-help.com .
This new version has some great new features including:
- Built in service comparison. Uses “traffic lights” to show if your broadband is any good or not.
- Built in interactive chart. See every second of your broadband speed test results.
- Built in detailed report. As geeky as
Compare Broadband Simply. Broadband-best-deals.co.uk Launched Today!
Comparing stuff on-line can be painful. Not any more for broadband! My new site www.broadband-best-deals.co.uk is designed to give a very simple and fast comparison of leading broadband providers.
If you’re tired of filling in on-line forms, post code checkers and the like, check out… Continue reading
Successful On-line Commerce:- How NOT to Do It (BT Shop).
Do some on-line shopping experiences drive you nuts? A recent experience with BT Shop left me wishing that I’d not even bothered.
The Great Camera Quest
The Olympus u770SE is a great little camera for diving trips and holidays. Not only does it take great photos but it can go to 10m without a case!… Continue reading
phpmailer and IIS SMTP Doesn’t Work
After much messing around, I was still unable to get phpmailer to work on IIS6 (Windows 2003). I am using PHP v5.x for windows.
From investigation it seems that IIS SMTP service has a problem with phpmailer. The error message from PHP is:-
“Language string failed to load: instantiate”
What this actually means is that IIS SMTP service is throwing a wobbly and can’t cope with adding… Continue reading
