You'll have to excuse the horrible photo, but I haven't had a chance to even plugin my new "toy". It arrived by courier late this morning, but I got caught up in client meetings for most of the afternoon...For the last couple of years I've been forced to maintain a Windows PC in the office so that I could access AIB's online banking service. While it was possible to "bludgeon" … [Read more...] about Bye Bye Windows – Hello iMac
MovableType Gets Ping!
Byrne Reese is a really cool guy who seems to come up with cool stuff on a regular basis. He's just released a small plugin for Movable Type that will bring "pingback" to Movable Type and make the transition from Wordpress that bit easier for users.Very cool!(It's implemented here as of 5 minutes ago, but may explode!) … [Read more...] about MovableType Gets Ping!
How To Upset Your Clients
I run a hosting company so I know all about outages and unexpected issues.They can and will happen.No matter what happens you will never please all of your clients. You can try, but you won't succeed. It's not that your best efforts won't be good enough, but simply that there will always be an "expectation gap". The best you can hope for is pleasing most of them most of the … [Read more...] about How To Upset Your Clients
Urchin 6 Beta – First Impressions
I finally got round to installing Urchin 6 (beta) this evening.As my personal servers are running Ubuntu I opted for the source install, however for some reason Urchin sees it as Fedora? It works, but it's a very odd thing to report...As the software is commercial you have to get a license. Fortunately once it's installed you can simply follow the wizard to get your license key … [Read more...] about Urchin 6 Beta – First Impressions
Vodafone Website Chaos
I'm currently considering getting a Blackberry or similar device. Much as I love my N95 it's lack of a full keyboard wouldn't make it my ideal choice for email "on the go".Since we're with Vodafone I naturally thought that checking their site would be a good idea.How wrong could I be!There is simply no sane way to see a list of available phones on their site.Sure. You can lie … [Read more...] about Vodafone Website Chaos