I woke up about 8.30

Started mucking around on the computer.

Reading slashdot, there's a telephone number up for sale, that was in an 80s song (ooh, I had to download it) "Tommy TuTone - Jenny/867-5309". The guy is selling the phone number, with 212 (NYC) area code. It's currently going for $41100. It still has 6 days left, I wonder what it will get up to:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3077991790&category=1503

I left to go to the Cafe, need to get the ADSL sorted out today.

I got there, there was some guy I've not met before there, he owns a computer shop in Newcastle, and is interested in buying the business.

I checked the mail servers, seem to be working. I then started going through the email. about 1000 spam came in over the weekend.

I got rid of all that, then I started replying to the people who had been whinging over the weekend.

A guy who's website I transferred to us a while ago came in, he's got virii on his machine again, and he can't access his email. I configured usermin on the server, so he could use the web interface.

Then I came across an email to say that our domain name had expired. Great, only half the business runs off that domain name.

I started trying to login to GoDaddy to renew it. I couldn't work out the password, and the password reset is very convoluted, you have to put in details from a recent transaction, and the details of the credit card used to pay for it. I gave up on it, I'll sort it out tomorrow.

I called our ADSL provider, told him to transfer all the accounts from the current nonsense setup (60 people sharing a 384kbit connection to the internet) over to a shaped account, 50Mb/day, then shaped to either the same or a bit faster than they are getting now. It's just because of about 5 people who are downloading 24/7.

Anyway, the way this changes in the next couple of days, will mean there is no IP address changes, which is good, I don't have to go to Newcastle and fiddle around trying to fix the config of a customer's site.

I then called the customer, to let them know it would be getting sorted out. They were all in meetings. A short time later they called me back. They still wanted to query a couple of ADSL circuits on their bill that shouldn't be there. I took the numbers, I'll chase it up tomorrow.

A guy from the Tax department rang, about a tax invoice we had issued. Uh oh. I explained to him about the fact the Director was killed recently, and we're trying to run this, and there are some difficulties, so he can give me the details and we'll look at it and get back to him later. He said he could do something else, and would try that.

I think we're buggered now, if they work out we're not paying tax.

Then I tried to go to our website, and got a "No DNS Records" error from the proxy server. Oh shit.

I then had another go at logging in to GoDaddy, or resetting the password. I called my friend's De Facto, and got some credit card details. I tried to reset the password, no good. I found another receipt from them, for payment of a different domain, and I went through the credit card details again. Hooray, I found one that worked, and it reset the password.

I logged in, renewed the domain, there's a few others that have expired, I'll chase them up tomorrow.

I tried to pay for it with my friends credit card, but it was rejected. Not surprising, considering a letter from Amex turned up today saying the bill was seriously overdue. I put my details in, paid, and was reimbursed in cash. Good exchange rate currently, $17.50 USD is only $22 AUD.

It was at this point I realised that the No DNS Records error probably came from the fact that i tried to go to the domain, without www in front, and it's probably not configured correctly with a default A entry in the zone file, but usually that results in an error something like "address ok, no record of requested type" or something.

We closed the shop, I went to my mates place, had a quick chat for a while.

A guy from one of the bandwidth providers called in to find out about a connection we were going to get in Gosford, sorted that out.

My friend's De Facto called up, we told her the domain was renewed.

I took off after this, came home.

I've just writren this blog, and listened to some of the mp3s I've downloaded over the last couple of days with my free ADSL.