I’ve been having a bizarre problem with Apache recently. On the Fordham Church website, we use the MODx Content Management System. MODx comes with an Apache .htaccess file, which uses mod_rewrite to give you nice URLs. For example, instead of www.fordhamchurch.org.uk?id=9, you get www.fordhamchurch.org.uk/services.html. This worked fine for ages, until recently: I wanted to add…

I got another email today from the same guy I mentioned in a previous post. This time, however, the email is coming from a GMail address… he might have read my blog post and decided that displaying the actual website he’s trying to advertise is not a good idea? Anyway, this is the email that…

Last weekend, Matthew and Ellie gave us a “Wasgij”. This is basically a jigsaw, except that the picture you have to make is a “what happened next” of the picture on the front box. In our case, the front of the box had a picture on it with two secret agents about to be run…

I’ve used Yahoo! Photos to store pictures for a while now. Any photos taken on our camera would get uploaded there. Unfortunately, Yahoo! Photos is closing. Which means that I haven’t uploaded any pictures there recently… I have been uploading photos to Facebook, but the problem with Facebook is that you can’t download the original…

Someone sent me an email today saying that they were interested in purchasing textlink advertising here. Their email address was apparently from mymasterweb.com (I won’t give a direct link to it for reasons which I shall attempt to explain). Anyway, I didn’t really know what to think (no-one’s ever contacted me wishing to buy advertising…

Matthew 5:37, King James Version: But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil. (source).

This weekend was the last weekend of our holiday. It was quite a busy one as well — we had to travel down to Gloucester for Matthew and Ellie’s wedding. [Hence the title… apologies to Grieg’s “Hochzeitstag auf Troldhaugen”] We set off after lunch on Friday, and made good time – we didn’t really hit…

So, as some of you may know, we went out to visit some friends in Leipzig, Germany this week. We flew out last Thursday, and came back yesterday (Tuesday). I have to say, Ryanair isn’t the most comfortable airline to travel on – but the price was right, so can’t really complain! On Friday, we…

This is just a quick post to let you know that we are off on holiday this week and next week, so don’t expect any updates! Normal service will resume soon enough…

You know, I completely forgot to mention this the other week, but I think it’s probably worth mentioning. When we moved, we used One Man and a Van as we didn’t want all the hassle of moving stuff ourselves (it’s a very tough job!). Anyway, in a nutshell they were absolutely excellent – very cheerful,…