Just decided to put Google Adwords on my personal site and for some reason it’s coming up with ads in spanish. Since it’s a small site that I use as my homepage and therefore gets hardly any hits, this could be why but it’s in Google’s cache and so Adwords should know what language its in?

Time to go and investigate!

Edit: 12:45pm
Just been and looked again and now the home page is in English and displaying stuff relavent to the site. Guess the Adwords servers hadn’t looked at the page yet and the default Google advert is for spanish hotels? Random!

I’ve been running a few shops on osCommerce all of which use PayPal as the only payment method. The problem I’ve been having is that I’ve been getting the confirmation emails from PayPal but when I log into the admin section of the shop, there is no order present, only the customers basic details.

Up until now I have managed as I know mySQL and PHP so have got their address from PayPal and checked the customer_basket table for the products they ordered so could manually create the order in the database without needing to contact the customer.

The last order I received however didn’t include any delivery address information in the PayPal details so I thought I would finally find out what the problem was and get it fixed. After a bit of Googling on a bunch of random bug reports (which I won’t link to as they weren’t very helpful), I found an article that explained it (which I won’t link to as I can’t find it again!).

The problem is that the orders are placed correctly if the user has a PayPal account already but if they use PayPal to pay by credit or debit card, either the session is lost when they return, or the user does not continue back to the site after paying, and so the order is not added to the database.

The solution: install the following module and use that instead of the default PayPal module:

osCommerce PayPal IPN Module v1.0 For 2.2MS2

This places the order before continuing to PayPal so that if something does go wrong, you still have all the information you need. I’ve just installed it and tried it and everything seems to be OK.

I think they must be. Not the Windows Update, the satelites that power Live Local Maps, or whatever its called.

I was a bit bored and having a browse around for a bit and decided to have a look at the map of Ashbourne (where I live) and noticed my old school (map) on there.

This is a bit strange because it was torn down about two years ago to build a new housing estate.

I haven’t wandered past for a while but I think Google is pretty much up to date, whereas MSN/Live/Microsoft (whatever they’re called now) haven’t got a clue! Won’t be using them for directions anyway.