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nick — Sun, 13 Oct 2013 19:44:00 +0100

Linickx.com has been using comments on WordPress for over 5 years now and over that time the quality and quantity of comments has varied. In the last six+ months comments have become mostly spam. To reduce the amount of outages caused by spam, scrapers and other internet-rubbish the comment forms and previous comments have been removed.

Intelligent humans are still able to use twitter or the contact form to get in touch :)

No Longer Associated with Calcylator

nick — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 15:06:00 +0000

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).

I got the "beta" site up, and pestered some non-technical friends and family to try it out; I came across a fundamental problem: ebays fees are complicated, so there's only a certain amount of simplifying you can do, general feedback was it was too much hassle... and they didn't feel the benefit, i.e. they'd much rather just pay the fees.... isn't funny how large companies can make a fortune by charging lots of people the odd pence here and there, and people would rather pay it than "waste" time finding a way not to pay it.

I'm quiet sad that this didn't work, but I'm sure there's another simpler avenue I can explore in the future, good luck to any one who decides to my old domain... well unless your one of those retailers that just buys expired domain names and then charges loads for someone genuine to use them... what I think of you couldn't be pulished ;)

Website Changes.

nick — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 16:29:00 +0100

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 :D

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 !

Whoops! - Files back online.

nick — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 12:57:00 +0100

I thought I'd post a quick note to say thanks span id="_upro_Tobias.Hirschle@web.de"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!

Calcylator Closed......for now.

nick — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 09:25:00 +0100

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.

I stand by that the site is a good idea, working out true profit from ebay is important to individual sucess. The fundamental problem is working out your exact fees per transaction is difficult & time consuming, so users just don't want to dedicate the time. I've been through two iterations of calcylator, and discovered that I just can't make the process easy enough for users to be bothered. Financially it doesn't bother me if people can't work your their profit accurately, but I do want the site (idea) to be successful, so calcylator is moving into a new phase.

The first phase will a gimmick, but hopefully useful, from their we'll step towards what will hopefully be a better solution... once again, another empty space to watch ;)

Ahh Pictures are Back !

nick — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 18:58:00 +0100

Had a small hiccup with gallery, but I'm sorted now :-)

Pictures Temporarily Offline

nick — Sat, 16 Sep 2006 13:29:00 +0100

Sorry.

I Love Firefox !! (New Aside)

nick — Sun, 23 Apr 2006 20:46:00 +0100

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 :-)

My Purpose in Life

nick — Sat, 18 Mar 2006 16:36:00 +0000

Just spotted this...

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

[![Dilbert](http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/images/dilbert2006034070818.gif)](http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/dilbert-20060318.html)

My 1st 100%

nick — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 16:42:00 +0000

[![](https://www.linickx.com/files/2008/10/cisco-discovery_results-150x150.png "Cisco Discovery Results = 100%")](https://www.linickx.com/files/2008/10/cisco-discovery_results.png)

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% ;)