I’ve decided to let the renewal of my domain name “calcylator.com” slip. The site was my web 2.0 idea that never got off the ground, the idea was simple, if you use ebay (as a seller) you need to calculate your costs, although ebay don’t hide fees from you the listing process doesn’t make it very obvious and if you sell a lot keeping track of your profit & loss is difficult… so I developed a site to track these and other costs (packaging etc).

Today has been a busy day for linickx.com the poor server must be tired, I’ve made a whole load of changes today including wordpress upgrades and url moves - I’ve removed the word “blog” from everywhere as it was kinda redundant

Some content still needs to be ported from my custom php to wordpress, but it should all be finished soon. I’ve got the wonderful redirection plug-in taking care of everything, if you experience any problems please let me know !

I thought I’d post a quick note to say thanks Tobias for letting me know that my files download area was broken, I was playing with mod_rewrite over the weekend and forgot to check that - DOH !

Anywho, all is sorted now, sorry to those that couldn’t get to my wordpress goodies!

My Last Calcylator post was full of hope… but now the site is closed.. what gives ?

Well our ISP had a spam issue, as part of the investigation, to protect calcylator I closed the site; development has been v.sloooooow after the last few months and I thought I’d take the time to reflect.

Had a small hiccup with gallery, but I’m sorted now

Sorry.

It’s a bit sad, but it’s true, so this new aside is to show my appreciation.

I think the best thing about firefox is the extensions, the problem is there is sooooo many; so how do you find the good ones ? Well I’ve decided to set up my own firefox aside, this will allow me to post short notes about the latest extension I’ve found am using.

I’ve just posted three fav’s to get started (loads more to come), if you have any recommendations please let me know else check out my firefox page to see the complete list

Just spotted this…

For anyone who knows me you might think todays dilbert is about me !

It’s a shame it’s not an important exam, but the satisfaction remains the same. I’m planning to make this year quite exam heavy so I don’t suppose I’ll see this again so excuse me as I revel in my own smugness !

I’ve been thinking hard (i.e. before I posted this), and really don’t think I’ve received 100% in a formal exam before; the results in the screen shot are for Cisco’s IOS Discovery Assessment, ok yeah there was only 13 questions but hey, 100% is 100%

I now have a new site look and feel

It’s been a little while in the making, but I thought, nearly 1yr of uptime was grounds for a new site theme. I wanted something clean, simple, and different from the last one; hopefully it’s nice, readable and easy on the eye.

If you’ve been playing with the theme switcher you’ll need to delete your cookies

I thought it was about time to announce my wifes new website - http://www.allaboutmice.co.uk

It’s her personal site dedicated to providing “pet” mice lovers information on how best to care for their furry friend. To be honest I have absolutely nothing to do with the content, but I have had loads a fun messing with the techie stuff !

The site is powered by wordpress & phpbb. The wordpress theme is a hacked derivative of twilight and the phpbb theme is a purplised version of subsilver.

I’d like to introduce my new website: www.calcylator.com

Calcylator.com is personal project, targeted at ebay sellers. The site is free for people to sign up to, and provide them is a new & different profit & loss (P & L) calcylator, erm sorry, calculator

The wife & I use ebay as an on line car boot sale, one of the things we’ve noticed as sellers is how hard it is to keep track of how much you are spending on listing fees, paypal fees and P & P (postage and packaging) So in my wisdom I decided to write an application to calculate & track that information for me, and now I’m sharing it with the world !!!!

I know I’m breaking the code, but I’m renaming the Jak3 wallpaper hosted in my pics section, the reason is that for the 3rd month in a row it is by far the biggest bandwidth eater, & I just can’t afford it

Please don’t get me wrong, I love that game, and it makes me happy to see that so many people out there do to, but recently I’ve found a couple if forums out there using the LARGE 2MB file as an AVATAR !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! yes really ! So every time someone reads a post from them, I get stung with a download / bandwidth theft.

Another day, another mini project.

My place of work pretty much demanded the need for our monitoring guys (i.e. people that stare at the nagios screen, waiting for red things) to have the ability to run traceroutes from nagios to the effected node - The twist in the story was that they wanted to do it from a browser !

So, I thought, that’d be an easy php script then , well to be honest it took a little longer than expected, mainly because I don’t really understand regular expressions (yet).

Nagios-ping-tool Is a package of small scripts :

After a few weeks of downtime, my site is finally back on line.

You’ll notice the banner at the top of this post, this is my way of saying a BIG THANKS to Chis at Urevised.com for all the hard work he’s put in; I know I pestered him a lot , but I found him to be very dedicated and helpful; it’s been worth it in the end ! I’m one very happy customer (again ) and would recommend urevised hosting.

I’m not sure what he did to fix wordpress but as soon as I know, I’ll share it with the support forum