I’ve been informed that our primary advertiser is going under. After 23rd September they won’t be serving any more ads….
Glad we weren’t relying on them to feed our family!
Ads will still be shown, but this means back to the old provider. In fairness, the old provider seems to be making more for us lately than the new one anyway!
I am going away with no internet access for a few days. I have someone who can reboot the server if all heck breaks loose but there will be no support answered until Tuesday morning (Australian time) as I won’t have e-mail access until then. Keep your fingers crossed that nothing breaks and hopefully everything…
Well, installing the Zend Optimiser failed abysmally because it now needs the latest version of PHP and we don’t have that on yet, so we have to get that first. Ah well, it can wait a couple of days 🙂 Netscape sucks, I just wanted to say that. I was informed that the front page…
We went to visit Selena today in hospital. She’s in a great deal of pain but in good spirits. She’s had an enormous amount of wellwishers, card and gift-bearers and she’s very thankful to everyone who’s been thinking of her. The windowsill beside her bed is burgeoning with cards, balloons and teddy bears! There’s not…
I’m adding comments. As you can see at the bottom of this diary… I don’t geddit! If people can post me in email their comments and the diary they’re trying to post to, I’ll see if there’s any noticeable pattern. Steve.
I’ve checked our advertising revenue for the last few months and it’s extremely disappointing. The numbers also don’t match the number of hits to the site to various pages which means people are using ad blockers. I’d like to remind people that although everyone hates advertisements, especially intrusive ones but advertising is what tries to…
One of the things the DearDiary code really is pretty poor at is dealing with the modern world. The original codebase was written in 1999, long before HTTP/1.1 was in widespread use. Which means a lot of the HTTP headers we send out aren't utilising a lot of the more modern cache control headers, whereas…