Author: Olly

  • Canadian Pro Action Cameras

    Since the initial launch of Pro Action Cameras UK, we have really started to make a dent on Action Camera Market – So we thought it was about time to launch the Canadian wing of the ProAction empire.

    ProActionCameras.CA is basically the same as the UK version but is in Canadian dollars, the shipping is configured to CA and we hold stock out in our Canadian office so that delivery is still sharp and quick!

    All the contact details are all localised too, meaning that when someone wants to get in touch over the pond, they can speak to someone in Canada, in the same time-zone as the customer.

    We’re launching the EU and the USA leg soon – watch this space!

  • Stressful Windows Server Hosting

    We’ve been a webhost for YEARS now – probably going on 6! But our hosting journey has never catered for the people who run ASP and need windows hosting – its just never come into the picture before – until now anyway.

    One of our large customers runs two office furniture websites and one of them has been put together by someone else – using ASP and all the jazz that go’s along with it. Migrating the files was a piece of cake. Fetching the database is a piece of piss too. But when it came to getting everything to sing in perfect harmony – its been a total nightmare.

    Thankfully we’ve got our windows server from Craig @ VeloxServ who has been a true saint over the last few weeks trying to help us get it all working properly. The issue we are having is with the ASP.NET session state which is the JuJu that stores all the user info (products in a shopping cart etc) and despite trying everything to get it working and in fact getting the session state to run –  it still wont allow people to add things to the cart!

    Hopefully a friend of Adam’s is gonna help us with it tomorrow as this issue has really got us all stumped. Windows hosting, eh – what a load of old shite!

  • Someone stole my Tinie Tempah Pass Out Lyrics!

    I kinda figured it would happen – the lyrics were NO WHERE to be found – so after me and HSB sat and worked them out and i posted them on here i knew it wouldn’t be long before some bastard robbed them and tried to play them off as their own.

    I know they have stolen mine cos they’ve made mistakes that have now been corrected by the lovely commenter’s on my actual post about the tinie tempah pass out lyrics

    What would be nice is if Tinie himself could verify the lyrics so that at least when people are stealing mine they are stealing the right ones 🙂

    I wouldn’t of minded if the tea-leaf at least stated where he got them from – it took us hours to get that far!

  • World Cup 2010 Claiming Online Promotions SCAM!

    This email came to me in a totally different format to most scam emails that grace my inbox. It was actually sent with formatting (different coloured text etc) ad came with a JPG attachment that had today’s date on it – and looked much more professional than most.

    Its blatantly obvious its a scam – here’s some reason why.

    1. Its claiming i have won a Football orientated prize – i hate football and am in no way associated with any football sites, clubs or organisations, so there is no way they could of got my works email account to add to a draw.
    2. Its claiming ive won $2,754,000.00! – Err… In my DREAMS!
    3. The email account it has been sent from is: claimsprize_20@hotmail.com – umm… a company giving out $2.7 million as a prize aint gonna be using hotmail now, are they?
    4. The reply-to address is claimsprocessingdept01@gala.net – gala.net is some Russian bullshit portal.

    It isn’t hard to identify them as scams – just look at some of the points ive covered above and you’ll always be one step ahead.

    Here’s the content of the email they sent to me.

    This is FIFA World Cup Claiming Online Promotions Award Notification, Do Open Attachment File For Details.

    Yours Truly,

    Mrs. Carolyn A. Taylor
    Promotions Manager
    FIFA World Cup Claiming Online Promotions
    Eastern Cape, South Africa
    Copy Right (C) 2010
    (Reg No: 2000/003778/09)

    And here is the attachment I received with it;

    I have of course replied making out to be some kind of retard – lets see what fun we can have with this one.

    I will of course, keep you posted.