Tag Archives: web_apps

Medical Defence Union censors blogger, takes money and runs

Posted on December 8, 2006 by

Everybody hates insurance and insurance companies. Insurance is, at best a necessary evil, and insurance companies are, by their practices, only marginally above pond scum in a lot of people’s minds. Imagine then an insurance company who sells insurance but … Continue reading →

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RecruitIreland adds RSS feeds

Posted on November 2, 2006 by

Via Mick in a comment on this post comes news that Irish recruitment website RecruitIreland.com is now offering RSS feeds on search results. RSS is ideal for recruitment sites, real estate sites, travel sites, etc. basically any site with updating … Continue reading →

Posted in RSS, Web 2.0 | Tagged | 2 Comments

Wintertime

Posted on October 29, 2006 by

In case you forgot, in Ireland the clock went back an hour overnight. We are now officially in Wintertime.

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Site undergoing some maintenance

Posted on October 27, 2006 by

This site is undergoing some maintenance this morning between 10:00 and 11:00 GMT. I’ll try to minimise any problems but expect some breakage.

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Throw away the key!

Posted on October 5, 2006 by

I’m delighted to see that Bill Lockyer, California’s attorney general has filed felony criminal charges against former HP Chair Patricia Dunn and four others for their spying on fellow board members and on journalists. The back story to this is … Continue reading →

Posted in Privacy, Security | Tagged | 1 Comment

Test post from Windows Live Writer

Posted on September 29, 2006 by

I’m trying out Windows Live Writer – it is an offline blog editor. Normally I don’t use these preferring to do my blog writing directly in the WordPress interface. I’m happy to see it handles Technorati tags but it doesn’t … Continue reading →

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Aer Lingus and punctuality!

Posted on September 29, 2006 by

This is a photo I took in Zurich airport recently. The tv screen says Boarding at 15:00 while the clock on the right (correctly) shows the time as being 15:15. We didn’t get to board until nearly 15:25. Even in … Continue reading →

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Any questions for Mike Hudack?

Posted on August 4, 2006 by

Mike Hudack is the founder and the CEO of video sharing service blip.tv which I reviewed here. I’m interviewing Mike this Monday evening (7th Aug 2006) for a PodLeaders podcast. We will be talking about blip.tv, the video sharing space … Continue reading →

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Tom Raftery is on Bad Behaviour!

Posted on July 10, 2006 by

I see Michael Hampton has released the latest version of his Bad Behaviour plug-in for WordPress. Bad Behaviour is a plugin for: blocking malicious activity, including blog/wiki spam, e-mail address harvesting, automated cracking attempts, and more. It does all of … Continue reading →

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Upsides of the controversy

Posted on June 6, 2006 by

Thanks to all the publicity generated by O’Reilly/CMP’s Cease & Desist letter, a Google search for “Web 2.0 Conference” now shows the IT@Cork Web 2.0 half-day Conference as the 4th placed result! Thanks guys! If you are interested in going, … Continue reading →

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