I'm currently trying to sort out a few things with our bankers. A couple of the things are minor. They should be easy to sort out. A couple of the other things are a bit more complicated, so I more or less expect them to be awkward. However what's proving to be awkward is actually finding the correct channel to deal with them. If you speak to the branch about X they'll refer … [Read more...] about Irish Banks + Ecommerce / Internet = Nightmare
Archives for November 2007
Amazon Goes Live on INEX
For the geekier of you who maybe using Amazon's web services the news that Amazon is now peering with several Irish providers at INEX may come as good news!You can check the peering matrix hereAs I'm running several sites that pull quite a bit of data in from Amazon's backend this is good news !EDIT: I meant to link to Paul's blog post … [Read more...] about Amazon Goes Live on INEX
Google’s PageRank Update
Google's pagerank updates are always talking points. Once upon a time, not so very long ago, everyone focussed on PR as being the "end", but over the last couple of years that focus has definitely shifted.The latest update, which seems to have kicked in towards the end of last month, has left a lot of people very confused about things, though everyone seems to think that … [Read more...] about Google’s PageRank Update
How To Frustrate Jack Bauer
Keith sent me a link to this masterpiece on Gavin's blogRemember 56k dialup?Huge "mobile" phones?Beepers?Very funny stuff! … [Read more...] about How To Frustrate Jack Bauer
More Golden Spiders Fun
Golden Spider bashing might appear to be a national pastime, but I guess it's all down to the size of the target!This year they've made a small effort to validate their weird choices by letting us, the public, vote on two of the categories. Of course, as Niall found out, the developers who did their site for them aren't exactly the most competent, as they didn't setup the forms … [Read more...] about More Golden Spiders Fun