Monthly Archives: August 2006

Heading off

We (my family and I) are heading off to Spain (on a house swap holiday) so there will be no posting to this blog for a couple of weeks (the house we are getting doesn’t have broadband)! Don’t anyone turn … Continue reading

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Microsoft Web 2.0 presentation

I mentioned earlier this week that I have been asked to give a presentation on Microsoft’s relevance in the Web 2.0 arena. What I didn’t mention was that this presentation is to an internal Microsoft conference for the EMEA region … Continue reading

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Speed up posting to WordPress

via Pat Phelan comes a nifty WordPress plugin which speeds up posting from WordPress blogs. Called WP-No Ping Wait, the plugin works by waiting until after the post has been posted before alerting the pinging services! Nice one, thanks Pat. … Continue reading

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VOIP blues!

I switched my telephony over to VOIP earlier this year. I signed up for an account with Irish VOIP co. Blueface and the service has been, on the whole, fairly reliable. In fact, I was so happy with the service … Continue reading

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Flickr introduces geo tagging

I saw a post on Tech Crunch announcing that Flickr had introduced Geo Tagging (finally!). I tried it out and I am well impressed, I have to say. It recognises photos which have been previously geotagged and asks if you … Continue reading

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Bad Behaviour blocks TechMeme

I noticed recently that none of my posts were appearing on TechMeme so I emailed Gabe Rivera, TechMeme’s founder to ask what the problem was. He responded: Your Bad Behavior plugin is blocking me, even though my crawler behavior is … Continue reading

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