Archive | September, 2005
September 30, 2005

Crazy Cat Killer

When I was living in Milan I shared the flat with other people. Some of them were pleasant, some were not. Pierre is a very cool guy.

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September 29, 2005

Eircom changes tune, Novara goes budget

The last few days have seen some interesting developments in the Irish hosting market.

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September 29, 2005

The Cutting Edge – New Toys to play with? Or merely ways to break things?

The Cutting Edge – New Toys to play with? Or merely ways to break things?

Ruby on Rails
Bleeding edge technologies and new techie toys are great, but they can also be a nightmare to support.

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September 28, 2005

Adsense Backlash – The Sites With No Content

Adsense gives webmasters a great way to “monetise” (what a word!) their websites.

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September 27, 2005

EU Breaks its own rules – data retention revisited

I’ve mentioned the debacle surrounding data retention a couple of times in the past few months.

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September 27, 2005

Useful gadgets

Useful gadgets

I like listening to music, but I’d also like to be able to use my plantronics headset to “skype” friends, colleagues and clients. I seem to be cursed with PCs that always have all the audio outlets at the back.

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September 26, 2005

IIA Net Visionary Awards – Voting

You can cast your vote in the IIA Netvisionary Awards from today until November 10th.
I’ve been nominated under the “Internet Enterpreneur” category :)

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September 26, 2005

Site stats with Google maps

An interesting use for Google maps is mapstats from the developers of blog flux
It’s pretty cool, so I’ve added it to my sidebar.
If you can’t be bothered looking for it there here’s a direct link
EDIT: As I only added the stats code to this blog a few minutes ago the cities list is a bit short plus I’ve also spotted some “interesting” php errors on their site. I still maintain it’s a cool use for Google maps though :)

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September 25, 2005

Skype on Breezy

Getting skype to work on Ubuntu shouldn’t be an issue, however the most recent .deb available on the Skype site will not work with breezy.

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September 25, 2005

Browse.ie – Site Thumbnails

Weekends are the best time of the week for me to “mess about” with sites.

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