Grainne from InterTradeIreland got in touch with me yesterday regarding the All Island Seedcorn Competition 2008. The competition is aimed at startups and has a prize fund of 280 thousand euro. The first prize is 100 thousand euro (I wish we'd had that kind of money to play with a couple of years ago!)Full details including entry criteria are on the site … [Read more...] about Seedcorn Competition 2008
How Not To Get A Favourable Mention On A Blog
Anyone who randomly sends forwards me .doc press releases without even making an effort to personalise the email stands zero chance of getting a favourable mention from me ever.It's not terribly hard to use some mailing software to send out press releases.Why do people presume that everyone uses Word?How hard would it be to actually address an email to me personally? Is that … [Read more...] about How Not To Get A Favourable Mention On A Blog
Prince August Special Offer On Roman Soldier Moulds
When I was a lot younger I used to be a big Prince August fan.At the time they didn't have as many moulds and models to choose from, but over the last few years their range has been expanding quite a bit.Their latest crazy offer is the moulds for the soldiers on the left for a mere EUR2.50 during the month of May.I think I still have all the original moulds and other bits and … [Read more...] about Prince August Special Offer On Roman Soldier Moulds
Play With Last.fm
Last.fm's team have made available a couple of web applications that they put together in their spare time. The "Playground" currently has three applications which take advantage of the huge amount of music data that last.fm aggregates. You probably won't improve your life much with any of these little apps, but they are fun to play with. Checking the typos of artists names can … [Read more...] about Play With Last.fm
Debian (and Ubuntu) SSH / OpenSSL Security Hole
Earlier today both Debian and Ubuntu maintainers announced a serious security issue with both Open SSH and Open SSL.There is, of course, a post about it on SlashDot, but if you'd rather skip the crud (ie. some of the rather inane comments) and are running a Debian (or derivative system such as Ubuntu) do a dist-upgrade as soon as you can.If you're using SSH keys you'll need to … [Read more...] about Debian (and Ubuntu) SSH / OpenSSL Security Hole