Photographer in Perth, Western Australia
Internet
The time is now here for customers of iiNet (and other TPG Telecom group entities) to either start paying for e-mail services from the Messaging Company or find alternative e-mail service providers. Ray Shaw at CyberShack wrote about this divestment of e-mail services and a useful guide to setting up your own e-mail domain in… Continue reading E-mail services
After a bit of research and a touch of experimentation, I have enabled ImageMagick with custom image settings on this website. This should result in better image quality for you, the visitor, at a negligible cost to display speed. Default WordPress image settings will typically lean towards file size optimisation, making for smaller image file… Continue reading ImageMagick
After many years, iiNet has announced that it is closing down its web hosting, domain name registration, and e-mail services. Those familiar with the Internet scene in Perth will know the iiNet name well. Things have changed, however, particularly within the last decade, which saw iiNet sold to a larger company. The reduction in scope… Continue reading A new web host
It’s been a little over a year since I started this weblog, and visitor traffic has reached 10,000 hits. Quite a few of the hits in the first few days would have been webcrawlers and other non-human visitors, but overall there should be a fairly low proportion of those in the cumulative statistics by now. In any… Continue reading Ten thousand hits
The Conversation published an article by Baden Eunson on the absurdity of English spelling recently. With the rise of the Internet and World Wide Web over the past 20 years, I think the topic of language in general has become more prominent. When we communicate with people from other countries and other cultures, even if in the same… Continue reading The quirky language that is English