I have just finished a new feature for my family homepages (www.glover.gen.nz) to allow members of the family to maintain their own set of links in a side bar off the main screen This involves them logging in, and seeing a list of links or people, with the option of adding or editing new links…
SOS Blog
Cyber Security
Had an interesting job this week, a customer got in touch with a story about her ‘Cyber Security’ system not letting her browse to any web pages. Nothing she did would get rid of the messages it kept throwing up. It all sounded a bit doubtful to me so I went to have a look….
Another web site
Signs of Success signed up for a free community website at ourporirua.com recently. Today I got a version of my printed flyer up as a simple place holder (at host.ourporirua.com/soscomputerrescue). I struggled with this site for a few days. The content management systrem chosen by Digital Porirua is something called DotNetNuke (DNN) which frankly appalled…
New blog theme
I just down loaded a new theme for my WordPress blog. Normally, if I was using the WordPress site to host my blog, I could choose any of thousands of different themes with no real difficulty. However, when you install it on your own space, it comes with just two themes, default and classic (which…
Orange phone
Also while travelling in the UK, I bought a mobile phone from Orange for 15gbp (GB pounds), which included 10gbp airtime, so I got the phone for 5gbp. I brought it back to NZ hoping that it would just ‘work’. I tried the Vodafone sim card I got for my vodem in it, but got…
Vodafone UK vodem in NZ
While in the UK (May-June 2009) I bought a Vodafone wireless modem (a Vodem!) which cost 40 pounds including 15 pounds worth of access (1 gigabyte) so the vodem only cost me 25 pounds. As it happens I only used 5 pounds worth of my 1 gig but that’s another issue. At that price, given…