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Today’s Dilbert struck a chord: (original here)   Related Posts:Yet Another Funny TshirtInnovation Isn’t Always A Good IdeaGprs on the cheapNo Pants PantsWhere To Get Cool Tshirts

The title kind of sums it up. Listening to two Irish politicians squabbling on the radio the other day it really struck me. Instead of trying to move forward and actually solve issues most of the politicians seem to be more interested in taking potshots at each other’s parties. It makes me sick. Instead of [...]

I love seeing businesses embracing the web. When an offline service goes online it can make things much easier for its users. This morning I was playing catch up on the various utility statements that had arrived over the last couple of weeks and happily dumping the useless junk that had been packed into the [...]

Bert – Year of the Dragon cloud hosting, a photo by blacknight on Flickr. James and I toss ideas back and forth about images and designs to use with blog posts, promotions, newsletters etc., Today‘s little invention is one of my favourites this year (ok the year is young, but hey !) There’s probably a [...]

Netflix went live in Ireland on Sunday night and, naturally enough, I signed up for the free month trial. After playing around with the service for a couple of hours I’ve got very mixed feelings about it. The technology is fantastic, though not perfect, but the range of content available isn’t exactly stellar. Signing up [...]

I switched one of my web servers over to use SuPHP a few weeks ago, as it’s a lot more secure. However moving from mod_php to suPHP does require a small bit of tweaking of files and directories. Under mod_php you can easily end up with a lot of files and directories being owned by [...]

I’ve always been quite cynical about making New Year’s resolutions, as I know all too well that most of us break them pretty quickly. This year, however, I’ve made a personal commitment to improving some aspects of my personal life. The most obvious one is my health. When I lived in Milan I walked a [...]

Remember the Cadbury’s ad featuring the gorilla from a couple of years ago? The original version wasn’t long enough for some people: So if you like Phil Collins with a gorilla playing the drums you can now enjoy a full 4 minutes 28 seconds of it! Related Posts:Inside the Reactor – Juno ReactorMoby With Heather [...]

One of the best times of the year to pick up bargains is straight after Christmas and hosting and domains aren’t any different. Here’s details of the Blacknight January Domain & Hosting Sale   Related Posts:Love Hate Relationship With RegistriesWebfest Here I Come Plus Save On dotMe DomainsHanging Out With Domainers In DublinDomain Switch – [...]

I was in Paris over Christmas and apart from seeing relatives and enjoying the city I spent quite a bit of time wandering around museums and exhibitions. One of the exhibitions that I was lucky enough to get to was the Jean-Paul Goude exhibition in Les Arts Decoratifs. While the name didn’t mean anything to [...]