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dnscurl.pl name lookup timed out (Amazon Route53)

Had some problems this morning migrating one of my domains routing over to route53, and google can’t find anyone talking about this issue so (as is my policy) I thought I had better make the information available for other people facing the same issue. I was attempting to use dnscurl.pl to create a hosted zone [...]

Code Snippet: 301 redirect with args

If you ever need to redirect one domain name to another (using apache) and you need to do it in code you can simply create a .htacess file in the root of the folder that needs to be redirected and pop the standard 301 redirect in there. That doesn’t really help though if you want [...]

Using a (free!) Amazon EC2 Micro instance for SVN

Amazon do a free low power/memory/everything server called a Micro Instance. This is perfect for a bunch of websites that don’t get used much or even as an SVN server. Did I mention it was free? Setting up SVN looks tricky at the outset, but it really isn’t. Assuming you’ve already got an AWS account…: [...]

Google search auto-complete

Google recently introduced a new feature to their google.com search engine. As you type google will give suggestions to the question you might be asking. These suggestions are based on popular searches that other users have made. There are some highly amusing ones out there but I notice that the initial phrasing of the suggestion [...]

Facebook Easter Egg

Well I’m not sure what facebook are doing with this but if you follow the following commands you get a lens flare (a visual effect) on the screen: 1. Log into facebook 2. Click on the background (the white bit) 3. Press: up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right 4. Press: b, a, enter [...]


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