Month: August 2006
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Awstats vs. Webalizer – lies, damn lies and statistics!
My hosting company is running two different web stats programs on the log files for this site – Webalizer and Awstats. Same log files – you’d think they’d come up with something like similar results – not a chance! In the Webalizer stats I am wildly popular: Ok, maybe not wildly popular but when you…
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Java Experts to speak in Cork
Catherine Wall of IT@Cork asked me to mention IT@Cork’s upcoming Java event. Simon Ritter of Sun Microsystems and Adrian Colyer from Interface21 will address developers in the Radisson Hotel, Cork on October 3rd. Simon is a Java Technology Evangelist at Sun Microsystems. He specialises in looking at emerging technologies including grid computing, Auto-ID, robotics and…
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Adding images to your blog post
A picture is worth a thousand words or so the old saw goes and it is certainly true that an image can greatly help the look of a blog post. Several people have asked me recently how to add images to blog posts so I thought I’d put up a blog post explaining how I…
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Shemas Eivers – Blogs and search engine optimisation (SEO)
Shemas Eivers is the MD of Client Solutions and he was at a meeting I also attended recently. Shemas was asking about tools for SEO and when I replied that blogs are the most powerful tool I know of for increasing SEO, Shemas didn’t seem to believe me. Fair enough. Shemas this post is for…
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No comment
I just spent the last 10 minutes trying to leave a comment on Todd Cochrane’s site (Todd is the guy behind GeekNewsCentral). Todd had a post up today about his Mac and how one of the apps in it hangs from time to time. I wanted to leave a comment about how my Mac crashed…
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Geo tagging blog posts
Via Scoble comes a simple way to Geo tag your blog posts Now, if only there were a simple WordPress plug-in to do same! geo:tool=blockrocker.com geotagged geo:lat=51.8541774 geo:lon=-8.3266068
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Dell's hellish batteries recalled
According to a report in the New York Times today, Dell is recalling over 4 million laptop batteries because of their propensity to catch fire or explode! Up to now the advice has been if you think your battery might be one of those likely to catch fire, take it out of the laptop and…