Month: November 2006

  • Technorati down?

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    Anyone else having trouble getting in to Technorati today? My attempts to get in in the last 10 minutes or so are timing out. UPDATE: It seems to be up again. I wonder what that was all about.

  • How to advertise to me

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    Advertising any product to me is becoming more and more difficult. It is not just me, there is a growing number of people who are discovering ways to skip ads almost completely in their daily lives. In my own case, I honestly can’t remember the last time I bought a newspaper but it would be…

  • it@cork 2006 conference review

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    [At the outset, let me say that any comments I make on this event will be coloured by the fact that I was one of the organisers!] Ok, with that out of the way, I think yesterday’s event was a tremendous success! There were over 250 people attended (Catherine can give me exact numbers but…

  • My wi-fi died!

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    The wi-fi died on my laptop early in the it@cork conference yesterday so I was unable to live blog the event, as I had hoped. I’m not sure why, I paid for 24 hours wi-fi from the Eircom network there but I couldn’t get any access after the first break. I will be publishing podcasts…

  • it@cork 2006 Conference – Jacques-Etienne Grandjean

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    Jacques-Etienne Grandjean is the Senior Director, Comm Sector Western Europe of Microsoft. Jean-Etienne’s presentation title is “Are Desktop Applications the way of the past?” Jacques-Etienne is unfortunately doing a sales job on Microsoft Live rather than addressing the actual title of his talk. Not once, even when discussing search, did he mention any of Microsoft’s…

  • it@cork 2006 Conference – Eddie Hobbs

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    Eddie Hobbs led off the talks at the it@cork conference this morning. His talk focussed heavily on energy and the coming energy crisis. What is the Irish government’s plan when oil reaches $200 per barrel? [Hint: it is up there with their dealing with an asteroid hitting Dáil Eireann plan]. The average distance food travels…

  • World champion blogger?

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    I was on NewsTalk 106 again yesterday evening. This time with I was on the Technology for the Rest of us slot with George Hook and Karlin Lillington. What I didn’t realise going to the interview, was that this was the launch of NewsTalk in Cork and so they had along local politicians, the CEO…

  • Free downloadable wallpaper files

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    Tired of looking at the same old desktop on your computer? There’s a free gallery of very nice downloadable wallpapers for Windows Vista available here. The photos are from a blogger and prolific Flickr user called Brajeshwar and as well as individual photos, you can also download a .zip wallpaper pack. I’m not quite sure…