Category: Technology

  • Summer book recommendations II

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    Tom Raftery
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    Back at the end of June I posted about three books I had bought to read on my holidays. The three books were: David Weinberger’s Everything Is Miscellaneous Andrew Keen’s The Cult of the Amateur and Don Tapscott’s Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything In my naivety I brought another couple of books along as…

  • Could Microsoft tackle piracy through Open Source?

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    Tom’s on holidays, I’ll be your host for today. My name’s Frank P, you might remember me from such blogs as “BifSniff.com”,” FestivalShirts.net/blog” and “Aonach.com/chatter”. Updated due to lateness of the hour when posting originally 😉 Well, despite being on holidays, Tom is not completely cut off from things technical – when I was talking…

  • Telephone hell with Dell…

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    Tom Raftery
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    Tom’s on holidays, I’ll be your host for today. My name’s Frank P, you might remember me from such blogs as “BifSniff.com”,” FestivalShirts.net/blog” and “Aonach.com/chatter”. If you fancy being bounced around in telephone hell for a little while, try and call up the Irish Dell Outlet Store about the possibility of purchasing a machine on…

  • Firefox's marketshare now 27.8% in Europe?

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    Tom Raftery
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    Tom’s on holidays, I’ll be your host for today. My name’s Frank P, you might remember me from such blogs as “BifSniff.com”,” FestivalShirts.net/blog” and “Aonach.com/chatter”. Damien asks us what our site stats for Firefox are after reading the results of a survey by XiTi monitor which shows Firefox having 38.6% marketshare in Ireland. You can…

  • Win a t-shirt

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    Frank just told me he has a new t-shirt design site going on called FestivalShirts. The site sells t-shirts to people going to festivals with slogans like “Will swap t-shirt for dry sleeping bag”, “I know where there’s a usable toilet” and “Don’t take drugs. That’s stealing.” Frank now has a blogger’s t-shirt available and…

  • Paddy Valley trip – help needed

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    Tom Raftery
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    There is a contingent of Irish heading to Silicon Valley in December (2nd to 9th) to meet up and forge links with the movers and shakers in the mecca of the computer world. The Paddy Valley Tour, as it is being called, has 17 Irish companies signed up so far. Many of those going are…

  • BarCamp Belfast

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    Tom Raftery
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    I got an email from Brian Cleland notifying me that the next Irish BarCamp, BarCamp Belfast is taking place in Queens University Belfast on Saturday June 30th. Sign up on the wiki now if you are going to attend.

  • Congrats Sir Tim!

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    According to an article on the BBC’s website, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, is to receive an Order of Merit from the Queen of England. I don’t think there is anyone who would argue with that award. Not alone did  Tim Berner-Lee invent the World Wide Web, but he made…