An apology. I have been undertaking some upgrades and maintenance procedures on the site and this has effected registration over the past 14 days. Either the registration process failed completely or email verification didn't work. It is now hopefully fixed. Sorry for any inconvenience.

Please note that there is still an ongoing problem with Hotmail, in that very little email gets through to them unless you have their paid for Hotmail live account. There seems to be nothing I can do about this. My suggestion I'm afraid has to be to move to a decent email provider. Gmai l works well and is also free. Additionally Gmail can be set up to allow email retrieval from any email client like Thunder bird . Give it a go.