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Well, its about time for a New Years message to all of you imaginary friends on the internet who I actually can prove don’t read this blog – they don’t call me the King of web traffic statistics for nothing. No. But they don’t pay me for the priviledge either. This is one of those [...]

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 [...]

We’ve been spammed. Hard. We’re still trying to work out how and why it occurred, and how we can best mitigate the problems it has already thrown up, but our rudimentary investigation has demonstrated one thing which has wider implications for the entire web population: at least 28,000 other websites have been similarly attacked! This [...]

I check the news every day on the websites of various major UK newspapers. I often see that all the headlines are the same and I get a sense that I don’t really know much more about the world as a result of reading their sites. So here are a few headlines and tit-bits from [...]

You may or may not have noticed that several of our other websites are not working at present. This is due to a Fasthosts Dedicated Server which we’ve been using to test our new channels before getting a much more robust and substantial server in the next month or so – that server is down, [...]

This is the last plug for our various websites for today, honest, but the team at Systemlays has tracked down a whole heap of Grand National Free Bets for the use and pleasure of all who sail by her. The buzz about this years big race is building in the Systemlays camp, and we’re likely [...]

Following our piece on the campaign against Phorm software proposals, I e-mailed my local MP, William Hague, asking him to represent my views to the relevant authorities. A speedy response appeared in the post, direct from the House of Commons. Here is the text of the letter: Dear Ms Haywood, Thankyou for your email received [...]

BT, Talk Talk and Virgin are all signed up to use Phorm -which reads the websites visited by customers and then targets adverts to them based on the content of those sites. The information which appears on your screen as you browse will be accessible by your ISP -this is almost exactly the same modus [...]

There has been much made of Facebook’s irresponsibility towards the privacy and control of individual’s data over the last couple of months, the main gripe being that it is nigh on impossible to have your account and information permanently deleted. Part of this is due to Facebook having failed to register as a Data Controller [...]