Archive For The “Web” Category

The Crazy Stories

Scott Adams invited people to tell their most amazing personal story. Here’s what he got.. Update! Scott responds with some stories of his own. Is San Francisco that dangerous or was it just the ’80s?

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Cute monkey

A very cute monkey from Cute Overload!

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Dinner on June 7th

I’m going to the dinner on June 7th being organised by Damien Mulley. Should be a good crowd there, including Britt Blaser. I may even make it to the infamous Web 2.0 Conference the next day.

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kick.ie – Irish news, community driven.

kick.ie is a site like digg.com but for Irish news and sites. They linked to my photoblog which is how I became aware of it. Tim O’Reilly’s attack on IT@Cork for using the term “Web 2.0″ as their conference name is shocking. They have a trademark on the phrase “Web 2.0″ so be careful about [...]

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RSS Overload

The thing about being away is that stuff collects.. My bloglines aggregator is now chock a block with feeds containing 20 or more posts. A few sites such as /. and el register have hit the max of 200. I shall probably do the equivalent of mark all as read for many of them. I [...]

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I listened to one podcast

I listened to one podcast, no, maybe two podcasts in their entirety. One promised a keyword for a competition to win a camera or some prize, and the other was Mark and Ciaran’s Nightsight, a videocast which I enjoyed despite not mentioning Web 2.0 anywhere! Maybe that was a good thing, considering the objective of [...]

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InnoDB: Starting shutdown…

Calling all MySQL admins! When you’re working with InnoDB tables you may have noticed that MySQL takes an extraordinary amount of time to shutdown. Don’t panic! It’s normal. InnoDB has extensive logs that it must run through and if your server is at all busy these logs can be quite big. After you’ve started the [...]

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Site registration – why make it hard?

I used to work at a company providing financial data nd services online. When a potential customer wanted to register they had to go through about 6 pages before they were a member of the site. Unfortunately we were constrained by outside forces but having to go through Terms and Conditions, personal details forms, choosing [...]

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Irish Blog Awards – You can start voting now!

Damien announced this evening that voting is now open for the Irish Blog Awards. I’m nominated in 3 sections: Best Personal Blog (this blog) Best Contribution to the Irish Bloggersphere (for WordPress) Best Photo Blog (for In Photos) If you’re familiar with the Irish B(l)oggersphere you’ll know a lot of the names, but if you’re [...]

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CorkBlogs.com Goes Live

Donal noticed that Corkblogs.com is live! It’s not aggregating many blogs yet but that should improve with time as it comes from the Irish Blogs people who did such a great job on that site. Donal listed a few of the Cork blogs he knows about and I added a few in a comment. Know [...]

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