Tag: web_apps

  • 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,…

  • RecruitIreland adds RSS feeds

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    Via Mick in a comment on this post comes news that Irish recruitment website RecruitIreland.com is now offering RSS feeds on search results. RSS is ideal for recruitment sites, real estate sites, travel sites, etc. basically any site with updating content where people search for information! On the RecruitIreland site, I like the fact that…

  • Wintertime

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    In case you forgot, in Ireland the clock went back an hour overnight. We are now officially in Wintertime.

  • Site undergoing some maintenance

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    This site is undergoing some maintenance this morning between 10:00 and 11:00 GMT. I’ll try to minimise any problems but expect some breakage.

  • Throw away the key!

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    I’m delighted to see that Bill Lockyer, California’s attorney general has filed felony criminal charges against former HP Chair Patricia Dunn and four others for their spying on fellow board members and on journalists. The back story to this is that HP were concerned about leaks to the press from HP’s board meetings. An investigation…

  • Test post from Windows Live Writer

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    I’m trying out Windows Live Writer – it is an offline blog editor. Normally I don’t use these preferring to do my blog writing directly in the WordPress interface. I’m happy to see it handles Technorati tags but it doesn’t sit well with the Tag plugin I’m using in WordPress (Ultimate Tag Warrior). There is…

  • Aer Lingus and punctuality!

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    This is a photo I took in Zurich airport recently. The tv screen says Boarding at 15:00 while the clock on the right (correctly) shows the time as being 15:15. We didn’t get to board until nearly 15:25. Even in Switzerland, where everything is supposed to run like clockwork, Aer Lingus manage to be late.…

  • Any questions for Mike Hudack?

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    Mike Hudack is the founder and the CEO of video sharing service blip.tv which I reviewed here. I’m interviewing Mike this Monday evening (7th Aug 2006) for a PodLeaders podcast. We will be talking about blip.tv, the video sharing space in general blip.tv’s recent CNN deal, digital media in general and anything else that may…