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Chrysler’s ad from the 2012 Super Bowl stars Clint Eastwood and is pretty amazing: Related Posts:Apple Christmas AdProvocative AdvertisingHonest AdvertisingAdwords FailUnlimited Hosting Is For Fairies

I haven’t logged into my Bebo account much over the last couple of years. I did login earlier this year almost by accident. I logged back out again within a couple of minutes. Last night, however, the site seemed to go offline completely. Looking into it further it’s pretty clear that either something is wrong [...]

I’ll be doing several longhaul flights over the next few months, which was one of the reasons why I got a Kindle. I like reading on planes (when I’m not sleeping), but there isn’t much space in the seat pockets for anything more than a Penguin paperback. Lugging the Steve Jobs biography back and forth [...]

I posted a few weeks ago about how I was going to go on a diet and change my lifestyle. Yesterday marked 3 weeks on the diet, so I posted a “status report” / “progress report” (I work in IT – you’ll have to excuse the IT-esque terminology!). What I didn’t go into were some [...]

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 [...]