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I upgraded the scripts that power the Irish blog site to Evo TopSites Professional yesterday afternoon / last night. I would love to say that the upgrade went smoothly and was completely uneventful, but that would be a lie :) From the end user point of view the new version of the software should be faster, as it supports more advanced caching. Other features include RSS feeds … [Read more...] about Irish Blogs – New Features

For a variety of reasons, not least amongst them my health (I think I'm coming down with something) I wasn't able to make it to Tech Camp today, but I see that a number of the hardcore bloggers are covering the days events. Sorry I couldn't make it, but hope you all have a good day … [Read more...] about Tech Camp

The Golden Spider "page" has been subject of much mockery here over the last few months. They've now "upgraded" it again and are now using a static Flash graphic (why would you use Flash for a static graphic????) promising that you can enter online from October 10th. Today is 13th and you still can't enter ..... I guess I shouldn't be surprised, but I am still amused … [Read more...] about More Spider Giggles

Metro is now available in Dublin, according to an article on Adworld The launch of the free paper has attracted a lot of controversy and speculation in recent weeks. … [Read more...] about Metro On the Streets

The recent billboard from Paddy Power upset some people. Whether the advertising authority were justified in their banning of the advert or not is no longer important. Their advertising agency(beware of the site's overuse of Flash etc) and Paddy Power themselves couldn't have asked for this much media attention. According to an article in today's Sunday Business Post the online … [Read more...] about There’s no such thing as bad PR – Paddy Power