Month: November 2006

  • Netvisionaries

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    The IIA Netvisionary awards were held last night in Killiney Castle hotel. Twenty Major won the best blog category and Brian Greene won the best podcast – both richly deserved. Twenty contacted me a couple of weeks back and asked me to accept the award on his behalf, on the offchance that he won, as…

  • Busy couple of days

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    I have a busy couple of days ahead – expect light posting. – today I have a couple of CIX-related sales meetings – I have an it@cork pre-conference podcast with Eddie Hobbs to edit and publish – tomorrow I have several meetings in Dublin followed by the Netvisionary Awards night – Friday I have an…

  • Critical vulnerabilities or a clever marketing ploy?

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    Microsoft released updates for critical vulnerabilities in Windows (2000, XP and 2003). This includes fixes for three vulnerabilities that “criminal hackers are already exploiting” according to Brian Krebs. The patches fix vulnerabilities which can allow remote code execution (it doesn’t come much worse than that!). Personally, I think they are trying to scare people into…

  • Sun have Open Sourced Java

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    Sun announced today that they were releasing Java under a GPL license. This can only be a good thing. Sun’s Jonathan Schwartz’ take on it is here and it is an interesting read. More over on TechMeme.

  • Salim launches Confabb

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    My good buddy Salim has taken the covers off his latest venture Confabb and it has received a glowing review from TechCrunch, amongst others. Confabb is a conference aggregation and organisation site. It has a database of over 16,000 conferences and the ability to log in and add more or use the site to help…

  • Your top Web 2.0 apps?

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    If we ignore the fact that the term Web 2.0 is controversial for all kinds of reasons and concentrate on the applications themselves, which Web 2.0 apps (using the broadest possible definition) do you use most? I use: my blog and podcast software all the time (they are run out of WordPress) my Flickr account…

  • How to speed up WordPress

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    In my last post, I was wondering how to fix the issues people were having leaving comments on this site. Attempts to leave comments were timing out and the comments were not being posted. Fortunately I had lots of great suggestions from readers on how to resolve the issues and I think it is now…

  • Commenting problems on this site

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    I have had several reports from people who have had issues trying to leave comments on this site and it concerns me greatly. Conor made six attempts to leave a comment this afternoon (fair dues to his persistence) I initially thought it had to do with the number of comments in my Akismet queue but…