Tag: Blogging

  • Welcome Eoin

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    Noted Trinity law lecturer and sometime radio pundit on all things legal, Eoin O’Dell has taken the wrappings off his blog finally! Eoin has been blogging on a private blog for the last several months now but on Friday Eoin took the username and password off his blog and now everyone can read his thoughts…

  • Trying out WordPress 2.1

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    I upgraded to WordPress 2.1 this morning and the whole process was remarkably painless. The entire process took about ten minutes – the majority of that time was spent on backing up the previous version and FTP’ing the new files into place. Of course, if you are a client of mine and I maintain your…

  • WordPress 2.1 released

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    WordPress 2.1 has been released. The major features according to the WordPress.org site are: * Autosave makes sure you never lose a post again. * Our new tabbed editor allows you to switch between WYSIWYG and code editing instantly while writing a post. * The lossless XML import and export makes it easy for you…

  • WordPress 2.1 due out later today

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    The next version of WordPress – version 2.1 is to be released later today and Aaron Brazell has a good post outlining 10 features of WordPress 2.1 you should be aware of. One that I love is the AutoSave feature. I have lost several posts during writing which I wouldn’t have lost if I had…

  • Le Web 3 – I want a refund

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    Here is the text of an email I just sent to Le Web 3 organiser Loic Le Meur: Loic, I am furious at the way you arbitrarily decided to change the Le Web conference schedule without any notification to the people who paid good money and took valuable time out of their schedules to attend.…

  • Medical Defence Union censors blogger, takes money and runs

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    Everybody hates insurance and insurance companies. Insurance is, at best a necessary evil, and insurance companies are, by their practices, only marginally above pond scum in a lot of people’s minds. Imagine then an insurance company who sells insurance but who have a clause in their policies saying that in the event of a claim,…

  • Comment issues on this site fixed?

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    A couple of people mentioned to me that they were having issues leaving comments once more on this site. On the advice of Donncha (lead developer for WordPress.com), I installed wp-cache 2.0 on this blog along with Donncha’s own patch for it. It certainly seems to have speeded up the blog – is anyone still…

  • World champion blogger?

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    I was on NewsTalk 106 again yesterday evening. This time with I was on the Technology for the Rest of us slot with George Hook and Karlin Lillington. What I didn’t realise going to the interview, was that this was the launch of NewsTalk in Cork and so they had along local politicians, the CEO…