Category: Technology
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Etrawler Ltd owner of Car Trawler and Argus Carhire.com could learn a lot from Easycar!
The letter wants me to remove a comment by a user calling himself Timmythedog on my post about issues I had with car rental company Easycar. The comment says: You need to pick and choose – we’ve never had a problem with Easy Car but be aware of Argus Car hire and their supplier National…
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Testing QuickPress
You can now post quick blog posts from within the Dashboard of your WordPress 2.7 blog – (un)fortunately not restricted to 140 characters!
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Worldwide Telescope launches half-baked!
Microsoft launched their much-hyped WorldWide Telescope this morning. The application has a lot of promise as an educational tool, in that it can make astronomy fun and engaging. First off, there is no Mac version. Boo! For this reason alone, I should have just walked away. But I didn’t because it promised so much and…
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Circuit City needs to stop insulting customers
I’m in Las Vegas for the EnergyCamp conference. I had a couple of hours today so I decided to check out the local Electronics stores. When I went into the Circuit City store I was approached by a member of staff who informed me that I “needed to leave my rucksack with customer service near…
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Friendfeed now on Twhirl
Friendfeed is a very cool site which aggregates all your rss feeds onto one page. This is cool because I contribute to 6 blogs and numerous other sites (Ma.gnolia, Flickr, YouTube, Twitter, etc.) often automatically without ever visiting the sites in question! Now I have one place to go to see everything I have published.…
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PERM_FAILURE: SMTP Error (state 14): 550 Email blocked by ORDB
My incoming email was unusually quiet yesterday morning. Great, I thought, I’ll get some work done! However, later in the morning I realised that anyone tryint to send me email was receiving the following error: PERM_FAILURE: SMTP Error (state 14): 550 Email blocked by ORDB – to unblock see http://www.example.com/ A quick chat with a…
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LCD TV sales surpass CRT for first time in Q4 07
I read a report this morning which said that in the fourth quarter of ’07, sales of LCD TV’s passed CRT for the first time: LCD TVs captured a 47% share of the global TV market, which reached 60.8 million units in the fourth quarter of the year. CRT TVs held a 46% share while…
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Blogger's Dinner in Cork
Damien and Alexia posted about this already but seeing as I have taken over the running of it, I decided to publish a quick post about this dinner too. We are having a blogger’s dinner in Cork on Sunday March 2nd at 9pm in Rossini’s Restaurant on Prince’s Street. This is to coincide with the…