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According to an article in Silicon Republic, Carlow town is supposed to be going wireless as of today. Niall did a bit of investigating into the article's claims earlier during the day, but couldn't find out a lot. Not surprising really when you consider that one of the providers mentioned doesn't even have a functioning website! Later this evening he did a bit of "war driving" … [Read more...] about Carlow Goes Wifi

Over the last few weeks I've been getting an increasing amount of email from various departments in Microsoft. Most of the email is rubbish. It's not just that the content isn't very good, but some of it is emails to tell me about emails that I should get in the future. Oh come on! It's email for God's sake! I don't need an email from Microsoft to tell me about another email I … [Read more...] about Microsoft Abuse Email Marketing

Cormac has posted a bit about blogs that do follow. Both this blog and the company one "follow" links - as they should. … [Read more...] about Blogs that follow …

Dell will ship XP preinstalled on new PCs again. It seems that people were none too impressed with Vista being forced on them and the hardware vendor had no choice but to do an about face. full story … [Read more...] about Dell Forced To Offer Xp

I mentioned the beta of Amazon's context ads a few weeks ago. Before I could give it any form of review I wanted to let it run on a couple of sites to see how well it worked, so for the last couple of weeks it has been active both here and on IWF. What I've found is that the code causes the pages to display a little oddly - it adds an extra couple of lines to the footer for … [Read more...] about Amazon Context Links – Review