OpenDNS

For the past few months, my online experience has been interrupted by web sites not loading the first time around. Or to put it more technically, the DNS servers of my ISP weren’t resolving the IP address of the host name (or at least I think that’s what was happening). So I’d have to hit reload a couple of … view full post

One Rule to rule them all

I own a number of parked domains that all redirect to this site. The redirection is handled by some Rewrite rules in my Apache server’s root .htaccess configuration file. For example:

# redirect domain.co.za
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain\.co.za$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://coda.co.za/$1 [R=301,L]

What bugs me is that I have to add these lines for each … view full post

Standard Bank browser policy

Standard Bank’s website (www.standardbank.co.za) is running on a Netscape-Enterprise/4.1 server (via Netcraft). So I figure you can attribute that to their site favicon being the Netscape logo; you’d think they would have changed it by now.

Then again, their Site Specs/Browser Policy page … view full post

SQL memory problem

The SQL memory problem I am experiencing is either directly related to the list of 5 latest referers that I was displaying on every page, or is because of a technical fault on the server. I’m waiting to find out, and until then I’ve simply removed the list – which appears to make the rest of the site work again. … view full post

SQL and Google Hilite

Something’s up with my SQL server, I have e-mailed my trusty host to find out what the problems are, so until then don’t expect this site to operate very well.

Have added a little feature to this site called Google Hilite, thanks to Dean @ … view full post