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As always, banks appear to be a little expensive when it comes to transferring money between accounts internationally. I used Tranzfers to transfer my money from the UK to Australia, and their rates were exceptionally good – charging just £7 for the transaction, and not ripping me off on the exchange rates. They also allow [...]

I read with some consternation the account of a staff journalist at the Guardian who had taken up the challenge of Chinese businessman Wang Hao to live on 100 Yuan (about £10) for a week. The challenge does not include direct debits such as rent or council tax. The writer, Stuart Jeffries, then goes on [...]

Apologies for the rascal server outage which happened before. That’s Russell Brand and Johnathan Ross’s faults for being too damn interesting for our minuscule shared hosting plan to cope with. We have moved this entire website to our altogether more robust dedicated server within the hour, and we’re back in the room, and faster than [...]

Highlight the word or phrase you wish to link from. Leaving it highlighted, go to the chain-link button. If you hover over it, it should say “Insert/edit link (Alt+Shift+A)”. Click on this button. A box will come up into which you enter the full address of the destination page for your link. In the “target” [...]

Want to tell someone “Happy Birthday” on a particular day or arrange seven posts to publish once a day for a week? Login, then go to “write”. Write your post as normal and then, instead of pressing “publish”, click “edit”. It is next to the little calendar which says “Publish immediately” shown below: You will [...]

Today we checked our usual websites and noticed that the videos were not displaying in Firefox. I found a really useful thread here and a really good explanation here. The culprit seems to be IPv6 which can be uninstalled. It turns out we’re not the only ones struggling with our embedded Youtube videos. This is [...]

Of course, when you decide to take an afternoon off as a webmaster and general master of a few domains, it is usually the case that such hedonism is repaid with some kind of “Server Not Available” message when you return. If this is on a Friday evening, then that is all the better. One [...]

I seem to find that Tesco’s grocery website doesn’t really work for me. I have successfully ordered several deliveries but sometimes I just can’t get the website to work. It is often unavailable and the special offers never work. It seems to crumble under the sheer weight of products and users but it is just [...]

So yesterday I was playing squash and I in my shandy drinking way was chatting next to the bar after the game. The subject of what I do for a living was brought up and skillfully avoided, but it did lead the conversation on to why the Leyburn Leisure Club (where I had been playing [...]

I was having a look at the technical blogging leviathan that is TechCrunch this evening and I thought I’d check out what their WP code looked like. A technical blog written primarily about Web 2.0 (does anyone still use that phrase??) and the general state and direction of the media world should have, I would [...]