Over the last couple of years it's become increasingly obvious that "government' wants to be able to control more of what we all do online. Unfortunately some of the issues they're trying to deal with won't simply "go away" but forcing service providers to treat their clients as if they were criminals will cause a lot of problems for everyone. Go read my rant over on the … [Read more...] about Guilty Until Proven Innocent?
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Cloud Hosting Without The Fluff
We finally launched a cloud hosting solution yesterday afternoon... Lots of more stuff in the pipeline, but this *should* prove to be interesting Press release here and blog post here Related articles No Fluff Cloud Hosting Is Here (blacknight.com) … [Read more...] about Cloud Hosting Without The Fluff
Fine Gael New Website Defaced
Fine Gael's new website has been defaced.Screenshot below:They were the only major political party to still host their website in Ireland up until very recently.UPDATE 2135: The Fine Gael site is now completely offline with this default holder up instead:By the sounds of things the defacement was due to bad coding. People were able to post comments including Javascript which … [Read more...] about Fine Gael New Website Defaced
Irish Political Parties Talk About Knowledge Economy Yet Host Overseas?
Over the last few months there has been a lot of "talk" about building a knowledge economy and promoting Irish jobs etc etc. So this lunchtime I thought I'd have a quick look at what the main Irish political parties are actually doing ie. are they walking the walk? The methodology I used was pretty simple - I used the DNS for their main site ie. www.partyname.tld (most of them … [Read more...] about Irish Political Parties Talk About Knowledge Economy Yet Host Overseas?
Flights Booked and Windows 2008 Launched
Today was a reasonably productive day...No day is every really as productive as I'd like it to be, but today was pretty good!To start with I finally had a few quiet minutes to myself and was able to book my flights to Sydney for the ICANN meeting. I had tried to book it online, but I couldn't make sense of the times / dates ie. if you leave Dublin on Friday, which day would you … [Read more...] about Flights Booked and Windows 2008 Launched