Author: G-Mac

  • Well life does have a way of pulling the rug from under you when things are going well… Emily lost her battle – not to the cancer she beat twice – but to the numerous infections her newly transplanted Spanish immune system couldn’t fight off. And to be honest it’s hit me for 6! Obviously…

    Emily

  • Next in my quest to move my website design to a more professional workflow is using version control more thoroughly. For me this means getting to grips with a little app that I’ve been avoiding for a few years – GIT! So what’s my goal…. Basically I want a local development server that links to…

    Setting up Git with 1&1

  • Preparing the new platform Create a new directory Create a new SFTP account Create a new mySQL DB and user Update wp-config.php Update DNS to point to the new folder Create a new directory Just one minor rant before I get started – 1&1 your cPanel replacement is rubbish!!! Anyway job number 1 is creating…

    WordPress migration to a new host – Part 2

  • I intend to do the move in three stages:- Export and download the current site – files and DB Prepare the new platform Upload and Import the content and DB Alter domain details to point to the correct nameservers Simple…I hope First up Satiricalblog.com – which on first look at the admin section reminds me…

    WordPress migration to a new host – Part 1

  • The time has arrived where the old EUK hosting package I’m on is no longer big enough for all the work/interest/plans ahead. Their upgrade plans just didn’t give me what I needed going forward, namely:- SSH acces git unlimited space and websites ruby on rails So having looked around 1&1 seemed on balance the best…

    Moving time…

  • …and consequently a lot of the minor gains I’d started to make have been reversed. However, I’ve not hit any of my stops yet and there is some better economic data around…so fingers crossed things should start heading up. Admiral – still holding up but the ‘talk’ seems to be edging more on the sell…

    It’s been a bad few days on the market…

  • Man posting about shares can lead to boring walls of words and numbers…so as a palate cleanser here’s bouncy-jumpy-punk… It brings back memories of seeing them perform this at TJs in the Square – where they stopped the gig half way through to give the bouncers a hard time for stopping some kids moshing. Peace…

    Musical interlude – Goldblade Psycho

  • One thing that has struck me in the world of shares is there is very little around that gets recommended without an angle. Lots of places and people will offer up their preferred tool-set/forum/font of knowledge but you can bet there’s a registration or referral involved. So just to track where I am and what I’ve…

    Trading tool-set for newbies

  •  Practice account                       investment       shares    bid price (p) value (£)   gain     Admiral 30  1773.00 c +2.80% 531.90   9% Breedon Aggregates 729  66.75 c -0.40% 486.61   -1% Dart 86  551.50 c +1.10% 474.29   -3% EasyJet 30  1547.00 c +1.40% 464.10   -4% Fusionex internati… 317  148.00 c +23.30% 469.16   -5% GO ETF Solns FTSE1… 5  18651.00 c +4.70% 932.55   2% Xaar 99  477.75 c +1.60% 472.97   -3%               value £3,831.58   

    Sunday summary