steven-dowd.co.uk

This afternoon, I have thrown together a Gallery Latest entries Module, this is for installing as a module into Joomla, not as a gallery plugin into Sobi2, its not pretty code, but it seems to work ok, it was hacked together using parts from other components, the Sobi2 Vscroller Module, the Joomla latest News Module [...]

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I don’t know why, or how, but something very odd has happened in the last 24hrs concerning a post a made last week about Cuil and the spamming of web page input forms
All the cached pages of that post, which were in Google have disappeared
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=site:steven-dowd.co.uk
The day after I made the post, I spoke with friends [...]

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There’s loads of hype around about the ‘new’ cuil search engine, everyone seems to be saying how good it is, how different etc, but I really do not like it, and I am not sure that its bots are very website friendly, they ran wild in my websites about 18 months ago, disregarding totally all [...]

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This last two weeks, I have been watching a newly found website, which I personally think is going to be the next best thing since Google,  I have watched it grow from an original idea with no direction, into a unique and very clever system, that although it still has not yet fully developed either [...]

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I am not normally superstitious, I have never been someone to worry that its Friday 13th, but yesterday, it was that day, and yesterday I had loads of hassle and bad luck, so maybe there is something in this superstition lark after all..

One of my canon lenses seems to have failed, the internal motor which [...]

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I really do not know why, but Yahoo’s search bots have been hammering my server for the last 24 hours, so much so, pointlessly, and taking no notice at all of the robot.txt that i have just added the who class c to iptable’s and banned the lot of them.
Why the hell Yahoo seem to [...]

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In the Summer of 2006 my Children Sarah & Thomas, got invites to the ‘Party at the Palace’, this was at Buckingham Palace, London, and was hosted by the Queen for her 80th Birthday, and in celebration of Children’s Literature
My daughter was invited [...]

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Fot the last week my server seems to have been hassled by hackers, they most always seem to be using the same system, cross site scripting, and luckily they havn’t managed to get into the system, but what a waste of time it is for me, having to keep everything upto-date just to stop these [...]

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Its been ages since I last posted anything, no real reason why, just didnt think to.
I did manage to transfer the whole of my Newton-le-Willows website into Joomla, lost a few things but otherwise the whole thing went ok
At first I setup the forums as smf joomlaboard forums, but they just never seemed to work [...]

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