Month: August 2006

  • Heading off

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    We (my family and I) are heading off to Spain (on a house swap holiday) so there will be no posting to this blog for a couple of weeks (the house we are getting doesn’t have broadband)! Don’t anyone turn off the Internet while I’m gone!!!

  • Microsoft Web 2.0 presentation

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    I mentioned earlier this week that I have been asked to give a presentation on Microsoft’s relevance in the Web 2.0 arena. What I didn’t mention was that this presentation is to an internal Microsoft conference for the EMEA region managers and the conference is taking place in Switzerland towards the end of September! Unfortunately…

  • Speed up posting to WordPress

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    via Pat Phelan comes a nifty WordPress plugin which speeds up posting from WordPress blogs. Called WP-No Ping Wait, the plugin works by waiting until after the post has been posted before alerting the pinging services! Nice one, thanks Pat. UPDATE – this plugin has caused issues on a number of sites I manage so…

  • VOIP blues!

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    I switched my telephony over to VOIP earlier this year. I signed up for an account with Irish VOIP co. Blueface and the service has been, on the whole, fairly reliable. In fact, I was so happy with the service I recommended it in a Sunday Times article on VOIP this last weekend. Boy do…

  • Flickr introduces geo tagging

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    I saw a post on Tech Crunch announcing that Flickr had introduced Geo Tagging (finally!). I tried it out and I am well impressed, I have to say. It recognises photos which have been previously geotagged and asks if you want to import them. It allows batch tagging (if you have several images which were…

  • Bad Behaviour blocks TechMeme

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    I noticed recently that none of my posts were appearing on TechMeme so I emailed Gabe Rivera, TechMeme’s founder to ask what the problem was. He responded: Your Bad Behavior plugin is blocking me, even though my crawler behavior is rather benign. If you can whitelist my crawler (does BB let you?), it looks like…

  • Google launch attack on the Office Enterprise market

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    Tom Raftery
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    Google has released Google Applications for Your Domain – you can sign up and check it out over at http://www.google.com/a. Google Applications for Your Domain currently allows you to run Gmail, Gtalk, and Gpages (a web publishing tool) through your own domain. One immediate advantage of doing this is that Gmail’s spam filters seem to…

  • Thinkhouse PR spam the wrong guy?

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    I see Damien is stirring it up again – sticking it to an Irish company (Thinkhouse PR) who spammed him repeatedly despite numerous requests not to. Good on ya Damien – hopefully the data commissioner will show them the error of their spamming ways and teach them how to become good corporate citizens.