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The flat tyre

Beware the bain of the car tyre. Car tyre punctures appear to be the problem of the user, but you are not allowed to have the tyre repaired. You get a puncture and and you, the user has to buy a new tyre. It is almost as if the car hire company never ever has to buy a new tyre, due to the punters having to keep buying new ones before the old ones have worn out sufficiently for the hire company to agree to replacement.

We came back to the hotel after a splendid meal and noticed that the rear driver's side tyre was a little low on the pressure side.

View from my Cape Town hotel balcony
View from my Cape Town hotel balcony

Arrived in Cape Town

Today, 26 October 2016, David and I arrived in Cape Town for the first time. This is the beginning of our Namibian adventure. Well you all know that Cape Town is in South Africa, but Cape Town is said to be a good city to visit, so this is the stopover before the proper start of our Safari. A kind of pre holiday wind down.

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Change of host Sept 2023

 

Change of host Sept 2023

 

In the begining of August 2023 I transfered my ivanhurst.me.uk sites, including this one from 123-reg to IONOS. It was meant to be a simple task. However, that was to to be the case. The reason for the move was primarily the hugh increase in price that 123-reg was applying regarding email boxes. Previously, the upto 500 of the boxes were included in the various hosting packages I had. Now they were going to charge for each mailbox based on size, and as far as I could make out, this was going to cost me nearly £2,000. This was not acceptable, and I did not get satisfactory answers from support. So I turned of all the auto renews and stated to move sites and domains accross to IONOS.

Travel data problems

 

Travel data problems

This is where it starts to get a little technical.

The site is built on a content management system, CMS, using Joomla. Joomla is moving forward and version 3.10.?? is being discontinued. Future developments are for version 4.??

Similarly, PHP 7 is being replaced with PHP 8.

Part of the migration is relatively simple, I have already changed to a new template which works on the new platforms.

However, some of the helper applications, which work within Joomla are not yet ready.

Fabrik is one of those applications, if fact a significant 'Joomla Custom Website Application Builder'.

Refresh 2021

 

Site refresh Easter 2021

I decided to give the site a bit of a refresh over Easter 2021 and install a new template and some additional functions. One of the things I didn't like about the old site was the delay in text appearing which probably meant some people left before the content appeared. This has been corrected now.