A few people have commented on my obvious dislike for recruitment agencies.Most people haven't asked why... some have...When I left college in the late 90s I ended up going to Italy for a few months teaching English. When I came back in early 2000 the Irish economy was supposedly booming, but I ended up on the dole. My intense dislike for recruitment agencies stems from my … [Read more...] about Why I Dislike (Despise) Recruitment Agencies
MovableType Developer With A Sense of Humour – WordPress For Movable Type!
Mark Carey is one of the more active MovableType plugin developers. Some of his plugin have to be simply categorised as "cool". There's no other word that sums them up aptly, though I'm sure you could find plenty if you tried.His latest plugin release is a stroke of genius - Wordpress Interface for Movable TypeIt does pretty much what it says "on the tin" and replaces the … [Read more...] about MovableType Developer With A Sense of Humour – WordPress For Movable Type!
Windows Desktop Gone – iMac Live
My windows XP Pro based machine has been powered off for the last hour or so, as I've more or less moved entirely across to my new iMac.One of the advantages of being in my line of business is that most of what you need is web based and is OS agnostic :)It will probably take me a few days to get used to the finer points of working with OSX in an office setup ie. connected to MS … [Read more...] about Windows Desktop Gone – iMac Live
Pet Hates – PC Time / Date Errors
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
Blog Awards Shortlist
Much to my amazement not only was this blog shortlisted for the awards under "Best Technology Blog", but the company blog was shortlisted under the "Best Business Blog" category.Best of luck to all the nominees and maybe I'll see you on the night - if not I'm sure someone from the Blacknight crew will be in attendance....The person who deserves all the credit, however, is Mr … [Read more...] about Blog Awards Shortlist