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Tom has started a campaign to force Beamish to do something about their buildings. The state some of those buildings are in is truly shameful, expecially when you consider that Cork is going to be European City of Culture in 2005. … [Read more...] about Beamish & Civic Pride

Interesting one this.. I came across an Irish site this evening that is a verbatim copy of another one - or at least very large tranches of it are. I've asked a few other people in the industry what they think of this kind of behaviour. Personally I find it abhorent. … [Read more...] about Copyright

Today was Friday - what a revelation!! Last night we went to the NOC to do some work and install a server for a new client. As was to be expected, we didn't get back to Carlow until late.... What I was not expecting was the busiest day for the company we've had so far. All sorts of weird requests from companies and individuals have been arriving all day long.. and they still … [Read more...] about The long Friday

I've setup a simple IRC bot on one of our channels on quakenet. The bot accepts certain commands and also stores facts (factoids). I saw a very nice implementation of this kind of bot over on lspace where a lot of the ILUG guys hangout. Our bot is nowhere near as advanced and probably never will be, but it's rather amusing to watch the reaction of people who've never seen one … [Read more...] about IRC bots

Weird. There is no other word to describe the type of advertising that keeps on appearing in the Google Ads boxes here. One of the things I wanted to test with this 'blog' was the Google Adsense content checking type thingy. (Excuse my English :) ) I wanted to see whether it would serve content based more on the text (ie. these ramblings) or would the fact that it recognises … [Read more...] about Google Adsense