Over the last few weeks I've been buying bits and pieces for the kitchen. I bought some cheap cutlery last year to replace the even cheaper cutlery I already had, which, of course, replaced it's even cheaper and nastier predecessor. Do you notice a trend? That's three separate sets of cutlery in about 3 years! Now if I'd simply forked out (excuse the pun!) for some semi-decent … [Read more...] about Cooking Doesn’t Have To Be Boring – But Does It Have to Be Expensive?
Google Screwing Up Another Cool Service Post-Acquisition
I mentioned how much I liked Jaiku some time ago and then was shocked to see it had been nabbed by Google.It now seems that my fears were not without some grounds. Anyone using Jaiku regularly has probably noticed how slow the entire system has become in recent weeks and how so many of the cool features are either not working or extremely slow.It now seems that there are issues … [Read more...] about Google Screwing Up Another Cool Service Post-Acquisition
Saturday SEO, EUBrowser and more
I'm meant to be doing some really boring domestic chores, so instead I've updated my post on Irish directories. There's a more recent one over here as wellRichard mentioned that a number of the EUBrowser squats have been droppedSomeone created a firefox search plugin thingy for searching domains from the Blacknight site - very cool!Now I really should get back to cleaning the … [Read more...] about Saturday SEO, EUBrowser and more
Email Standards Compliance Yahoo Good – Google Bad
It seems that Yahoo is going to make an effort to comply with standards for their webmail service, which is excellent news.Of course in typical "we know better" fashion it sounds like Google is ignoring standards yet again. Of course they still hide the source IPs as well ...If you just send plain text email then none of this will probably matter that much to you, but once you … [Read more...] about Email Standards Compliance Yahoo Good – Google Bad
Essential Mac Software For A Student?
My sister's boyfriend gave her an iBook G4 for Christmas. The spec isn't bad and I've been updating it and installing a few bits and pieces for her today. Since she's a fulltime student she needed some form of word processing package, so I opted for NeoOffice, which is a Mac port of OpenOffice. I also installed Firefox and Acrobat Reader. As far as I know she only uses MSN, … [Read more...] about Essential Mac Software For A Student?