Re-Decontinues

posted by Jaitu at 23:53

Keeping with the general spirit of cleaning, clearing, sorting and rejuvenating I decided it was well past time that the site had another face lift. So here is the result. A cleaner, hopefully improved and enlarged space.

On the more tangible front the conservatory is now nearly done. We had most of the tiles laid this week. Embarrassingly we ran short by about four tiles, the first delay of our own making and so near the finish. We were able to buy more but following the trend we were promised a phone call on Wednesday to arrange another visit and have not yet heard anything more despite leaving messages and having Nuglas chase it up.
The pipe work has been boxed in and once the final tiles are down we need only have skirting and final fixings applied.
The spot lights flicker when the dimmer is in use but we should be able to get that rectified easily enough too.

Then it only remains for us to paint the plaster, move in the tumble dryer and build an enclosure for it, then get some furniture and we're completed. It will be an enormous relief when it's over.

After that we have plans to get the garden respectable, move and replace a couple of radiators and then completely redecorate our bedroom. The fun just never stops.

RTDL2 Does Retail

posted by Jaitu at 23:13

For a little while now ElDiablo and myself have been working on a new side project. Using my pitiful web design skills and our combined imaginations we have begun an RTDL2 associated store. See the link up there on the new nav bar?
The shop is open and ready to take orders so please take a look at what's on offer. Even if you don't like anything you see just yet, tell your friends that the place exists and keep an eye on it as there are plenty more designs in the works. For now we are concentrating on (we think) simple reasonably priced products although we have the capacity to provide other more divers product lines. There will also be more in the way of lady-centric goods appearing over time.

Stick A Few Sequins On It

posted by Jaitu at 01:21

I've made a few changes to the site layout.

Most noticeable is the navigation bar under the page title. You'll also notice that the links it holds are mostly useless to you right now. This will change over time.
For some reason the page area is now a little bit wider than before and I can't see why. Anyway it's late now and I'm tired so it can wait.

Damn Domain Hosts

posted by Jaitu at 22:29

RTDL2 .NET is offline again. This is happening too often.
I can't even log into the control panel to check a status.

I've been in touch with PCHighway to complain and find out whats going on.

I've also started to resurect the .COM (lost since DomainBuster imploded last year) and get it transfered to a new hosting agreement with GoDaddy.com. If that goes okay I'll maybe look at moving the .NET to the same location.

Format Wars

posted by Jaitu at 17:58

Welcome to TechMaster with his first post here. Beating both Kahoona7 and Dean to the first strong stream of Wii.

TechMaster tells me that the site looks wrong on some other browsers. If that's the case then we don't need them stinkin' browsers. I'll look in to it when I can.

He's also correct in his observation that there is currently no option to comment on these threads. Comments are currently disabled but will appear in time.

Up top

posted by Jaitu at 14:08

For some reason the RTDL2 header has gone missing from the top of the pages. It disappeared when I added the code for the search form and I don't know why. If I preview the template code the header is there but when published it stays gone.
Ah well, it can wait for another time.

We have at least one squirrel that enters our loft space on a far too frequent basis. I've found and blocked two points of entry previously but it seems the bloody thing just keeps moving further along the eaves looking for weak spots. I can't see any other places to get in or out but he's doing it somehow. I've got some tasty tasty poison up there all mixed in with peanuts and chocolate but so far no obvious sounds of death. Quite the opposite in fact it sounds as though something more like *this* is going on up there. Only in the dark, which would be so much more cool to see.
For anyone shocked and distraught at the use of poison I do have some PIR controlled repellent devices on order which will hopefully help keep the loft free of potential victims.

Hello to Dean and thanks for the first post.

If It Ain't Ain't Broke Can I Be Bothered?

posted by Jaitu at 10:43

Ok, So it's mostly back. A lot of the links within the site are broken but can I be bothered to fix them?
If I'm honest, no. I plan to change the site - at least the content - soon and no one reads this one anyway.
<* Update: No, of course I couldn't be bothered. I decided instead to delete almost everything *>

Domain Busted

posted by Jaitu at 10:36

This is the first post since RTDL2.COM disappeared along with DomainBuster / Fast24.
Now with a new host and a .NET