While not everyone syncs their desktop PC with an NTP server, you'd expect people to at least have their PC clock set to the correct month!Checking my imap folders this evening I came across a gem - maybe a rough gem, but perfect to illustrate my point.Some bright spark requested a service, however, as their PC's date is set to two months into the future it's quite hard to see … [Read more...] about Pet Hates – PC Time / Date Errors
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Late Birthday Presents Rock
I was down in Cork over the weekend, as my family hadn't seen me since Christmas.As it was my birthday the previous weekend they'd a couple of little things for me - never a bad thing!My sister, who is about ten years younger than me, seems to have an uncanny knack at finding me really cool presents. She got me a gorgeous Lord of the Rings mug from the souvenir shop at the … [Read more...] about Late Birthday Presents Rock
Twitter’s UI Makes Me Cry
Several months ago I wrote about Twitter.I've since started using Jaiku and I really like it. Yes there are server issues from time to time, but the user interface is quite intuitive and you can actually follow a conversation.Twitter really sucks.The user interface is simple. Simply awful!There's an API. Wow! While twitter could be useful it's lack of basic functionality, such … [Read more...] about Twitter’s UI Makes Me Cry
Choose Your Poison
Having a proper framework for software makes things a lot easier!We're going to be using a sane solution to rollout preinstalled scripts on our new hosting platform, so feedback would be niceCheck the company blog here … [Read more...] about Choose Your Poison
Urchin 6 Finally In Beta!
Urchin announced its acquisition by Google approximately 3 years ago.I'd been in talks with Urchin prior to the acquisition and had installed a trial version of the software. The main difference between the Urchin software and the SAAS was that one is installed on your server and reads your logs (a bit like Awstats) while the other uses a bit of Javascript in your pages to … [Read more...] about Urchin 6 Finally In Beta!