Archive for March, 2008

An Odd Email from Amazon

Tuesday, 18th March, 2008

We’ve all had the usual email from the likes of Amazon, getting you to buy some associated kit, but I recently got this one after buying some Canon printer paper. It proudly starts with “We hope you’ve been enjoying your recent purchase, and thought you might like to see a few accessories and service plans […]

A fault on a Crusader Condenser Dryer

Sunday, 16th March, 2008

I’m posting this in case it might help someone whose condenser tumble dryer has stopped working. Our seven year old Crusader* dryer developed a fault whereby it would run for a few minutes or seconds then stop. The water tank was not full and pressing and holding the start button would make it run, so […]

Photobox Pulls ftp uploads

Tuesday, 11th March, 2008

Further to my last post, I now have email confirmation from Photobox that they have removed ftp upload capability (despite still accepting logins on the ftp server and having instructions on ftp uploads on the help section):
…to be honest i’m not to sure when or why it was stopped.
I think its something to do with […]

Photobox ftp down again

Monday, 10th March, 2008

Photobox’s ftp upload service seems to be screwed again. It still lets you upload files, but whereas it normally creates a directory named ‘ftp uploads - dd_mm_yyyy’, it is not doing this and simply dumps the files in the root area, which does not appear in ‘My Albums’ and cannot be deleted either. These files […]