Category: Community Interest

  • Violence in Cork

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    Tom Raftery
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    I was walking down Washington street in Cork near the Kino cinema at 5pm this afternoon when out of the corner of my eye I spot a fracas on the opposite side of the street. I glance over and see what appears to be a couple of women fighting. As I’m pointing it out to…

  • Aer Lingus sending spam?

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    Anyone else the recipient of a spam mail sent out on behalf of Aer Lingus this evening? I received one and when I went to reply (to complain) the from address (aerlingus@aerlingus.com.r.12hs.com) was, of course, invalid. There was an unsubscribe link in the mail but no way I was clicking that! Now, I’m pretty rabid…

  • Backingbertie.com

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    Tom Raftery
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    Caoimhe mentioned a site called backingbertie in her blog today. Bertie Ahern is the Taoiseach (prime minister) of Ireland and the site is set up to register a highly visible and damaging protest vote against Bertie Ahern, his style of government, his right-wing leanings, and his lies about the ‘state’ of the country, our health,…

  • Protect yourself from identity theft

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    James pointed me to a very interesting post on Owen’s site on ways to protect yourself from identity theft. If you ignore the US specific advice (Social Security number stuff), there’s some very useful advice there.

  • Credit card fraud

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    Tom Raftery
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    How often do tellers check what’s written on the slip? How secure is this system? What can you get away with signing as your signature on credit card slips? Zug decided to find out – with hilarious results

  • Fianna Fail controls the content of candidates' "blogs"

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    Tom Raftery
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    There are many advantages to having a blog – they make it extremely easy to disseminate information, and because of the various technologies built in to the blogging software (pings, comments, etc.) and the ease of updating, Search Engines love them and rate their content highly. With this in mind, you would think that politicians…

  • Global Dimming – explains reduced Global Warming

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    Tom Raftery
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    Global Dimming is a recently discovered phenomenon which says that the amount of sunlight reaching the Earth’s surface has been gradually falling. Although the effect varies greatly from place to place, overall the decline in the amount of sunshine reaching the Earth’s surface amounts to one to two per cent globally, every decade between the…

  • Web standards compliance

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    Tom Raftery
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    Michele mentioned my post listing standards compliant websites in an article on his site this morning. He correctly pointed out that many development companies think that they can jack up the price when asked to produce standards compliant sites – “Mention w3c standards and the price starts to climb”. Unfortunately, this is often the case…