As you can probably guess my Sunday morning browsing involved catching up on XKCD's strips .. I would apologise, but they're too damn funny!Here's their take on the entire swine flu thing and Twitter ...Original here … [Read more...] about More Swine Flu Fun Via XKCD
What Does Your Buying Pattern Say About You?
Marketers just love knowing what we all spend our money on, so that they can formulate better ways of getting us to part with our cash. Some people find this disturbing. Personally I don't really mind. My buying patterns have always been a bit odd anyway, though I'm unlikely to to end up on any watchlists:XKCD - sheer genius! Pity that there aren't that many (if any) ebay … [Read more...] about What Does Your Buying Pattern Say About You?
Scaremongering Stupidity
At some time in the last couple of months an Irish website got hacked and its member database was stolen. The database contained email addresses and the associated passwords to login to the website. The list of email addresses and these passwords was published on a website which has since been taken offline (though you could find it in Google's cache as recently as 48 hours … [Read more...] about Scaremongering Stupidity
SocialMediaExpert.ie Goes Live
I have odd ideas during the middle of the night... The other night while chatting with a couple of people about social media "experts" and other snake oil types I went checking domains ... SocialMediaExpert.ie was available (as were a few other extensions), so I grabbed it. James from Forbairt Media did a wonderful job on the design and layout (if you don't like it blame my … [Read more...] about SocialMediaExpert.ie Goes Live
Digital Camcorder Wanted – But Which One?
I had a chat the other afternoon with Bernie Goldbach about video and digital camcorders. Bernie pointed me in the direction of a camera which he thought cost a few hundred dollars, but it turns out he'd left out a zero! Since I'm heading off to Sydney in June for a couple of weeks I'd really like to be able to video some of the sights etc., but I'm at a total loss when it … [Read more...] about Digital Camcorder Wanted – But Which One?