A winning streak

According to many nice men with African sounding names who represent various well know companies and lotteries, I have several million pounds coming my way. All I have to do is send them a few personal details, a sample of my DNA and all my PIN numbers and my life will become worry free. Boy, am I … [Read more...]

Late night

I got to bed a 2am last night.  Good party?  What party?  I was moving my main website - Englishisin.com over to a new server so I can start to experiment with a live Moodle installation. Have you ever moved a website? No?  Well, it can be a fiddly process, especially when there is a database … [Read more...]

Registering an internet domain in Italy.

Having heard horror stories about the process of registering a domain name in the Living Museum, I have to say that I managed to register a new .it domain quite easily.  I did this though my website hosting company, but this still meant that I had to print out, sign, and send a document to the … [Read more...]

Moodling 2

I have now got Moodle running on my PC locally after installing it using a very useful Joomla standalone server set-up called JSAS.  Although I did manage to lock myself out of phpmyadmin for a while as a result of setting up a password!  I edited the config file, after I found the thing, and all … [Read more...]

Bouncy wi-fi connection? Try this.

UPDATE: 1st June 2007I'm still having bouncy wi-fi problems, despite running the WinsockXPFi app once more.I seem to have cured my bouncy wi-fi problem. Often, when there were other wi-fi connections active, both secure and non-secure in my area, my wi-fi connection to the www would come on and … [Read more...]