Saw this on a hosting forum and loved the language. I don’t agree that the hosts require beating - I think they’re really rather good and wish that they all have enough time off to play poohsticks.

Please drop the f*cksticks and pick up some cluesticks and start beating each other with those for a while.

Cordially,
Mr. Dissatisfied Customer

(P.S. the hosts in question are Dreamhost and they nobly host this blog and my other sites. I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend them for almost every hosting circumstance. If you sign up through this site you’ll be helping me pay their paltry bills - thanks!)

These lot are the schizzle:

www.directholidays.co.uk

Nokia’s support for the Mac platform is paltry - everything seems to rely on an installation of Nokia Suite which is PC only. Apple’s iSync steps in to synchronise contacts and calendar entries between the two but sms messages are seemingly stored on the phone forever.

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On a FullXML site running on some HELM shared hosting (Windows) I suddenly got this front-end error on all pages and no content:

msxml3.dll error '80004005'

A reference to variable or parameter 'gateway' cannot be resolved.

The variable or parameter may not be defined, or it may not be in scope.

/Engine/CFullXMLEngine.asp, line 819

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