Last week, while I was up in Dublin, UPC came along and hooked me up to their fibre. Yesterday I got the fixed IP details and with Paul‘s assistance switched the UPC box over to bridging mode, reconfigured my Fritzbox and moved my home connection into the fast lane. It’s nice With the standard UPC [...]

For more than a month I’ve been working without a decent laptop or desktop at home. I’ve been using a rather old and slow iMac (a late 2006 model) which will only take 3 GB of RAM and has a rather annoying habit of swapping like mad and freezing several times per day. The laptop [...]

Every time I browse Facebook I’m pursued by this ads from Sean Gallagher Talk about annoying! Related Posts:Home Network Storage Problem Solved (Hopefully!)Visualising Social Via IntelCork Isn’t Near Dublin and Ireland Isn’t BritishCaptain Obvious Says Blogging Regularly Gets TrafficNetflix Ireland Might Be A Bit Overhyped

Adrian posted this on Facebook earlier and it caught my attention. Basically it’s footage of a horse race. Couple of things to note, however. First off, they’re racing on a public road, which has normal traffic. Secondly we drive on the left in Ireland. (Kind of important to note) And the road they’re on has [...]

I was in New York city for a few days last week. It was all a bit of a “last minute” trip, but fortunately I had plenty of air miles and Hilton Honors points, so I was able to do the entire trip on a nice low budget. I’d never been to New York, so [...]

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I posted about my initial impressions of Netflix back in January. It’s now nearly May and I’m still happily paying a monthly subscription. Why? Well it comes down to economics and a couple of other things. Even if you don’t circumvent the content limits on an Irish Netflix account there is quite a bit of [...]

I was brought up to love reading. This image pretty much captures it for me The image is from Burning Pages, which is based in Colorado. You can read about them here Related Posts:Good Reads For Long Flights?More Dead Trees Courtesy of GrandadFree Books Courtesy of PenguinDevil May Care – James Bond Returns – Book [...]

It’s been a week since I fixed the issue on a site that had been infected by some malware. As I mentioned in my previous post, the malware was stealing the site’s search engine traffic. And the graphs show very clearly how things have improved in only a few days: And if you look at [...]

Shopping online can become a bit of a nightmare if you get too involved in the online reviews: Sums it up pretty well! Thanks XKCD Related Posts:Roberts Stream 83i – Quick ReviewTweetdeck On iPhone Update RocksMore Swine Flu Fun Via XKCDWhat Does Your Buying Pattern Say About You?Logitech Harmony One – Quick And Dirty Review