Month: September 2006

  • Running Windows on OS X

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    Actually Sprinting Windows on OS X might be a more accurate post title or Screaming Windows, or… Parallels is virtualisation software which allows you to run other OS’s on your Mac. I splashed out recently and bought myself a new 15″ MacBook Pro (2.16ghz intel core duo, 2gb ram, 120gb hd). Now that I have…

  • Apple claims trademark infringement on 'Podcast'

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    Apple has yet again sent in the lawyers – this seems to be a favourite tactic of theirs which is increasingly giving them a bad name (and I am a Mac fan!). This time, Apple have gone after a company called Podcast Ready for their use of the word Podcast and myPodder (their product name).…

  • Blacknight suspends site against explicit instructions

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    I’m furious. A client’s domain was suspended by Blacknight despite my explicit instructions to the contrary on Friday. I received a call from Blacknight on Friday saying the site was due to be suspended. I told the Blacknight representative that the domain had been transferred out of my control in July and that I needed…

  • I slapped Microsoft in the face (and lived to tell the tale!)

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    Well, I made it out alive! I went to the Microsoft internal management meeting in Switzerland (Bürgenstock – a beautiful resort overlooking Lake Lucerne), told them their web 2.0 offerings sucked, and why. I have to say that their reaction was remarkably positive to my (metaphorically) slapping them in the face! They did challenge some…

  • Light posting this week

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    Because I am addressing an internal Microsoft meeting in Switzerland on Wednesday, posting will be light this week. And as I have signed an NDA, there will be no details of the Microsoft meeting posted.

  • Microsoft! Open Source Internet Explorer

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    I mentioned previously John C. Dvorak’s PC Magazine article where he calls on Microsoft to abandon development of Internet Explorer because: All of Microsoft’s Internet-era public-relations and legal problems (in some way or another) stem from Internet Explorer. He advised them to: pull the browser out of the OS and discontinue all IE development immediately….…

  • Cork blogger meetup

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    Pat Phelan is organising a blogger dinner/meetup to coincide with the visit to Cork of Shel Israel and Rick Segal in October. The dinner is on in the Taste of Thailand restaurant, Bridge Street, Cork on October 17th at 8pm. Leave a comment on Pat’s site if you want to attend. I know I’ll be…

  • Ryder Cup blog

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    I’m delighted to see that all my nagging of my old friend John Prendergast has paid off and he has started a blog! However, I wouldn’t have been more surprised if it was about crochet! I never knew John was a closet golf fan. John’s is the Ryder Cup blog (the Ryder cup is the…