Category Archives: Web sites

Web sites that I thought were eithor good, quite bad, or contained something funny.

Pruning wiki users, is there an extension for that?

If you manage any wiki you know that spamers love them. They just drop by, register a new users, and add some link spam. Now, there is an extension for MediaWiki wikis to remove all the spam pages, Nuke. But … Continue reading

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VodafoneAU – Don’t URL me, I’ll URL you (vfau.me/dcg4n)

Received an SMS purportedly from Vodafone today. Upcoming correction to data charges from 08.07.11 may affect your service. Please head to: http://vfau.me/dcg4n for more information Following the link you end up at the page http://i.three.com.au/VFMarketing/2011Q2/DataUsageCommsGp1011 and a 404 error message. … Continue reading

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100 contacts on LinkedIn, how 1337

Got my 100th contact on LinkedIn. Oh, how 1337. (For those not in the know, replace the numbers with letters and you get ‘Leet‘)

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LinkedIn’s April Fools day joke

Logging into LinkedIn today I noticed an interesting selection of People you may know. As these people will probably all disappear after today, I took screen captures for you to have a look at in the future. You can find … Continue reading

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Vodafone SIM only Caps advertising double data allowance

I have been a Vodafone customer for a while. Most recently as pre-paid. When a friend game me their old iPhone I had the need to move to a plan with data allowance. And the Vodafone SIM only plans looked … Continue reading

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Vodafone Billing options don’t give you enough digits

This is more a complaint about bad web design than Vodafone itself. I was looking in the MyVodafone site. Needed to check billing info. And noticed this silly error on the Billing options page. As you can see from the … Continue reading

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Vodafone Data Addon 500MB $9.95, 1GB $9.95

Looking at the Vodafone site I noticed that there are some strange combination of pricing. Take for example the Plan Add Ons page. Here you can see that, when you get to the 12 month contract data addon sets, you … Continue reading

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Rent this studio, comes with man peeing

When taking photos to advertise your rental property, remember to think about what the other people in the shot are doing (or look like they are doing). It is good to know that all facilities work, but we don’t need … Continue reading

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Apartment, 1 bathroom, no bedroom

Perusing Domain.com.au I noticed the perfect apartment for someone that doesn’t spend much time at home. Who just drops in occasionally to freshen up. Then off again. 1 bathroom and no bedroom. And close to public transport on Marrickville Road. … Continue reading

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And Delicious.com went berserk…

So you try for some self promotions. Set your blog to automatically post to Delicious and twitter. And since you submit links to Delicious you want them posted daily to your blog. And them Delicious goes berserk. Deciding to post … Continue reading

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