Over the past couple of months I've ended up travelling quite a bit. I've been bouncing around Europe and further afield between various meetings and events. Most of the time I haven't had issues with my bags. I've gone to the airport, checked in my bag (a Samsonite that I picked up a couple of years ago) and brought my laptop bag with me onboard. Sure, leaving Colombia … [Read more...] about No More Luggage Checkin?
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The Downside To Using FREE 3rd Party Services
Yahoo! has been around since practically the start of the web (web - not internet). I've been using the site and their services in some form or other since the mid 1990s. Some of their services are fantastic and incredibly useful, while others have been hard to make sense of. At some point yesterday word leaked about an upcoming series of culls chez Yahoo! On the chopping block … [Read more...] about The Downside To Using FREE 3rd Party Services
Irish Garda (Police) Website Falls Over
Looks like the Irish police (gardai) website has collapsed under the server load:Why is this happening?Well it's all down to the new speed trap system that is going live this week (today I think). The Gardai are listing all the locations of the traps on their site, but they obviously didn't think that just about everyone in the country would want to go and look at the list .. … [Read more...] about Irish Garda (Police) Website Falls Over
Why Do Some Hotels Charge So Much For Internet Access?
I'm currently in the Intercontinental Hotel in Prague. Up until an hour ago I was staying in the Hotel Praha, also in Prague. Both hotels are 5 star. But while the Hotel Praha offers free internet access throughout the building via wifi and good speeds via ethernet in your bedroom, the Intercontinental is charging me an arm and a leg for a service that they advertise as being 3 … [Read more...] about Why Do Some Hotels Charge So Much For Internet Access?
Dropping Sweetcron
I was using Sweetcron to publish a rather boring "life stream" over on one of my other personal domains. Unfortunately the script has been pretty much abandoned by developers, so no new features or updates have been made in well over a year. It also didn't have ANY caching options whatsoever, so it really wasn't a "gentle" script to run. I'm currently looking for a suitable … [Read more...] about Dropping Sweetcron