Tom Raftery’s I.T. views

I have written several times in the past about how recruitment companies should be allowing job hunters to get job offers delivered via rss.
Bernard Tyers, sysadmin of irishjobs.ie, has written today about how Irishjobs.ie are considering making a move in this direction and he is asking for feedback on how best this be rolled out. […]

I use NetNewsWire as my feed reader - I keep going back to it, despite its limitations because it is faster to read my feeds in a desktop app than a web app.
However, one real bugbear I have had with it is its lack of support for synching. I use two different computers - my […]

I’ll be interviweing Kevin Burton, founder and CEO of TailRank this evening for a podcast on PodLeaders.com - if anyone has any questions for him, feel free to leave them in the comments and I’ll be sure to put them to him.

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Happy St. Patrick’s day from (cold and wet!) Ireland. Hope it is nicer wherever you are reading this!

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Really, I am furious right now. I wanted to use another term rather than suck (one which rhymes with suck) but I realise some people can be offended by profanity so I rowed back on the language.

Why am I annoyed? - Microsoft’s insistence that you have to log into Hotmail every 30 days or they […]

Phil Zimmermann is a living legend - a cryptographer he released a cryptographic program PGP for the encryption of email and files on computers as open source freeware in 1991. Zimmermann was pursued through the courts by the US Customs in a criminal investigation for exporting cryptographic software in breach of US export regulations. The […]

I was interviewed this afternoon by Matt Cooper of Today FM’s The Last Word in a follow-up piece to the Irish Blog Awards.
Matt raised the recent proposal in France to make it legal to crack DRM - this was reported by Reuters yesterday:
France is pushing through a law that would force Apple Computer Inc […]

Todd Cochrane of Geek News Central is launching a new podcast promo site later today at podcastpromos.com.
I interviewed Todd about the launch of the site and he explained to me, in great detail, the thinking behind the site and its functionality. The interview is on my PodLeaders - Thought Leaders podcast site.
We covered lots of […]

Unbelievably I won the award for the Best Technical Blog at the Irish Blog Awards on Saturday night. I didn’t think I had much of a chance 1) considering the quality of the competition and 2) the fact that the volume of posting here has decreased since I upped my podcasting output!
Still, those fivers I […]

This is probably a very naive question but I want to make a copy of a DVD using my Mac and I’d like to know what tools people use for this.
The situation is this - my sister sent a DVD (March of the Penguins) to my father recently but the DVD won’t play in my […]