A portfolio and marketing site for Mike Smith a professional MC, compere and voiceover artist.

Through iterative user centred design and develpment process Mike obtained the site he wanted matching his already established print media.

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[...] quick thinking, inventive, practical and enthusiastic. Hundreds of hours of diverse live event experience, and a background in schools theatre and stand up comedy; means I make ‘dead time’ a virtue, I don’t complain when I’m not spoon fed, and I thrive on situations where anything can happen. 90% of my work is repeat, and by recommendation and that’s because I offer an offbeat but professional approach which helps make an event or production, on any scale, memorable and convincing.

Launched on 26th February 2010
PHP, MySQL, SEO

What a job I’ve had trying to get hold of one of these cards! My old Fujitsu Siemens AMILO Pi 1536; which was a replacement for one that broke down, had artefacting pretty much straight from the beginning! I just gave up at that point with Fujitsu Siemens (3 odd months of wrangling to get my replacement) and ended up buying an Alienware, but that in itself is another story.

Anyroad, that old laptop has been sitting around gathering dust for some time and I thought it might be nice to get a new MXM card and install it to ‘upgrade’ the laptop per se. Well, that didn’t quite work out and when I finally found the original ATI Mobility Radeon X1400 Video Card 128MB card on eBay, from America, I jumped at the chance to purchase it.

So the graphics card is in and life is breathed into the laptop once again. Yey! A new 320Gb HDD later and a GIGABYTE GN-WI07HT Super AG 108Mbps Aircruiser Mach miniPCI slotted in place and we are good to go.

Had an interesting experience with 123-reg and trying to apportion nameservers to domains always flagging back:

Setting nameservers to ns1.domain.tld and ns2.domain.tld
Please wait…
Nameservers for domain.net were not changed to
ns1.domain.tld and ns2.domain.tld
Error text: Nameserver ns1.domain.tld and ns2.domain.tld doesn’t exists in the registry

A quick scoot around their help centre didn’t flag back any answers for anything as complicated. So resorting to google I figured it was 123-reg hadn’t parsed through my details to all their associated registrars. Not immediately obvious from the error message.

The answer was to phone up 123-reg support and detail they needed to make sure my domain and nameservers were registered with all their associated registrar registries.

3rd time lucky on phone and 5 days later I managed to get ‘Ricky’ who knew exactly what I was talking about straight away and didn’t pawn me off with talk of DNS propogation etc. etc.  He ensured my .uk.net domain and nameservers were registered properly with Central NIC and got back to me very promptly. Thank you Ricky.

So all is well and hopefully this might help anyone else in the same situation.