And when I say "serious" this glass really is for you....It holds an entire bottle of wine!It's aptly named "The Full Bottle Wine Glass" (via) … [Read more...] about For the Serious Wine Drinker
Upgrading Ubuntu Is Fun – Sort of!
Today was upgrade Ubuntu day!For some inane reason I hadn't kept ANY of my Ubuntu servers up to date in terms of releases (they were up to date in terms of security patches). Part of the reason why I hadn't upgraded was laziness - they were all working properly, so I didn't see any reason to fix something that wasn't broken... Of course that meant that when I finally decided to … [Read more...] about Upgrading Ubuntu Is Fun – Sort of!
Why I Dislike (Despise) Recruitment Agencies
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