Tag Archives: web_apps

Medical Defence Union censors blogger, takes money and runs

Posted on 8/12/2006 by Tom Raftery

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 … Continue reading →

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RecruitIreland adds RSS feeds

Posted on 2/11/2006 by Tom Raftery

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in RSS, Web 2.0 | Tagged | 2 Comments

Wintertime

Posted on 29/10/2006 by Tom Raftery

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

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Site undergoing some maintenance

Posted on 27/10/2006 by Tom Raftery

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.

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Throw away the key!

Posted on 5/10/2006 by Tom Raftery

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 … Continue reading →

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Test post from Windows Live Writer

Posted on 29/9/2006 by Tom Raftery

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 … Continue reading →

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