Month: January 2007

  • "An operating system has never had parental control features before" – Bill Gates

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    “An operating system has never had parental control features before” Bill Gates came out with this incredible statement two and a half minutes into the following interview on NBC http://www.youtube.com/v/BO1pvWUELIUReally Bill? So how do you explain this screenshot of the built-in Parental Controls on my Mac? There have been Parental Controls on the Mac for…

  • Annoying Snaps

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    I have mentioned previously, in response to a question, that I don’t like the Snap Preview plugin for blogs. It seems that I am not alone in this. Nick Wilson has written a piece on his blog about why he can’t stand the Snap Preview and while some of the commentery is tongue in cheek,…

  • Slow news day at Valleywag

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    It really must have been a slow day at Valleywag yesterday for them to put up a clip of Bill Gates leaving the stage after his interview with Jon Stewart’s Today Show. The title of the Valleywag post was “Bill Gates walks out of Daily Show” – implying that he walked out in the middle…

  • Microformats and spam

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    Paul Walsh poses an interesting question on the Segala blog when he asks are Microformats perfect tools for spammers? Machine readable contact details using the hCard format, for example, potentially make it very easy for spammers to automate harvesting of info to populate their databases. I have already made it very easy for spammers by…

  • etenders site hacked/phished?

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    I received a troubling email this morning from a friend of mine. He ran into a problem when he tried to log in to etenders this morning (etenders is an Irish government website where you can find tender notices on government and public sector procurement). He said: I went to log on to the etenders…

  • Spam Assassin on Direct Admin problem

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    As I mentioned previously, I have rolled out a new server for my blog (and a couple of sites I host) in the last few days. I am now being hammered by spam! Spam Assassin is installed on the server. The hosting software on the server is called Direct Admin and in each hosted domain…

  • Off to HostelWorld

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    HostelWorld is one of the world’s larger travel companies and their annual conference is a big affair. This year the Hostelworld conference is on in Dublin on Jan 29th and 30th. They have asked me to give a talk on the opening morning to the conference delegates about Web 2.0 and its affects on their…

  • Why do I blog?

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    That is the question Darren Barefoot is trying to get answered in his short 16 question survey. There are prizes for participating in the survey and even more prizes for mentioning the survey in your blog (ahem!). I’m not 100% sure why I do it but I imagine there’s a 12 step program… Via Eoin