Archive For May, 2007
I watched this episode of Scrubs the other night and I cannot get this song out of my head. As I’m not one to suffer in silence you lot might as well enjoy it too. Be glad you’re not in my head! Maniac, maniac … … As performed by The Blanks.
If you want to improve server performance, the best way is to move as much of the processing off it and onto the client machine. All those visitors of yours are running souped up AMD and Intel CPUs with their big screens and fat harddrives. No wonder your small little hosting plan can’t keep up. [...]
Ubuntu 7.04, or Feisty Fawn as it’s known to it’s friends, has added a neat upgrade to the apt-get tool. For those who don’t know, apt-get is the tool Ubuntu uses to install and remove software. A small problem in the past has been trying to figure out what the name of the package required [...]
While posting yesterday’s photo I used Google Maps to find the name of the quay where it was taken. Unfortunately, the map wasn’t exactly correct. Google Maps put Patrick’s Hill down by the River Lee where Camden Place should be. Also, since when did Merchants Quay go across Christy Ring Bridge? Yahoo Maps have it [...]
Thanks Celine for taking care of Adam while we went and voted! I can’t remember who I gave all my votes to but the first two went to: John McCarthy, an independent standing on health issues, including mental health. (yes, that is a pony tail!) Noel O’Flynn, a Fianna Fail politician. He helped us a [...]
Imagine what would happen if only the doctors attended patients? PS. Yes, I am still alive. No, I don’t have time to blog much these days. Instead of checking my email when I get up in the morning it’s baby time instead. You get the idea, and I wouldn’t change a thing!
My dad texted me to ask if I was registered to vote in Blarney because he checked the electoral register and neither Jacinta or I were found there. I know we’re registered because we filled in and sent off the forms months ago and we’re receiving junk mail from politicians to prove it! Nevertheless I [...]
It’s now easier than ever to use Google Analytics thanks to the interface revamp it’s gone through. Michele had the scoop yesterday and I’m very impressed. From your dashboard you can drill down to various aspects of your website’s traffic. One of those is a clickable map of the world that eventually led me to [...]
