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  • Broadband digital divide – Cork vs. Dublin

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    Further to my last post on the pitiful state of broadband in Ireland – believe it or not, it gets worse! The wholesale cost of broadband is roughly three times more expensive in Cork than it is in Dublin. Wholesale bandwidth in Dublin is available for €25.00 per MBit/month. In itself a ridiculously expensive price.…

  • Wireless Wednesday in Cork

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    I see Damien is chairing an event in the Rochestown Park Hotel on tomorrow at 6pm called Staying Competitive in the International Arena. The event has an interesting line-up of speakers including Pat Phelan of Roam4Free. If you have the time, I’d say it will be well worth dropping along.

  • Wikis for quality manual projects?

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    Wikis are great tools for documentation projects. Especially if the people creating the documents are dispersed geographically. However, I am embarking on a project to write a quality manual for the CIX data centre (Cork’s first fully redundant data centre). Part of the process in creating a quality manual is that the various sections within…

  • Salim launches Confabb

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    My good buddy Salim has taken the covers off his latest venture Confabb and it has received a glowing review from TechCrunch, amongst others. Confabb is a conference aggregation and organisation site. It has a database of over 16,000 conferences and the ability to log in and add more or use the site to help…

  • The next great Cork Blogger's dinner

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    The plates are hardly dry from last night’s great blogger’s dinner and we have another spectacular one planned. The date is November 28th, time and venue are yet to be decided – mark it in your calendars now! November 28th is the eve of it@cork’s 2006 Business and Technology conference, so I made sure to…

  • Google Maps and Google Earth images updated

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    The Google Earth blog notes that there has been a significant update to Google Earth and Google Maps images. On checking Cork, I found that it has been significantly updated with recent high-res images. However, Rushbrook, where I am based, is still only available in low-res. In this screen you can see Rushbrook is on…

  • Cork blogger meetup

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    Pat Phelan is organising a blogger dinner/meetup to coincide with the visit to Cork of Shel Israel and Rick Segal in October. The dinner is on in the Taste of Thailand restaurant, Bridge Street, Cork on October 17th at 8pm. Leave a comment on Pat’s site if you want to attend. I know I’ll be…

  • House for sale in Cork?

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    We moved house recently and are now selling our former house. It is listed in MyHome.ie for €295,000. The auctioneer recommended it be listed at this price to get more people to view it – he thinks we should be able to get €315,000 for it (or more if we are lucky!). It is a…