While I may not like some of the websites that get submitted to the various directories I manage I can appreciate that not everyone can design (I can't!). However one of my pet hates are the image only sites. You know the ones I mean. Instead of pages of text they are one big ugly image. No text. No links. Nothing clickable or spiderable. You'd need to use OCR technology to get … [Read more...] about Common Design / SEO Mistakes
HeadRambles aka Grandad on TV
Although I missed HeadRambles' (aka Grandad) 5 minutes of fame on RTE the other evening it is available to view online. If you are going to watch it you will need patience. Not with the bloggers or the interviewer, but with the RTE stream. Bandwidth is no longer an issue (they're on INEX), but whatever way they have the stream setup it makes for a really painful experience … [Read more...] about HeadRambles aka Grandad on TV
OpenWRT – Followup – Improved Latency / Ping
As I work for a hosting company that monitors a LOT of network traffic data it's only natural that my own DSL line is being "watched" (it makes talking to our ISP a lot more interesting!) If you look at the screenshot below you will see a very big difference in the connection from around lunchtime today: So what changed? The only thing that changed was the firmware on the … [Read more...] about OpenWRT – Followup – Improved Latency / Ping
Lotus Chinese Medical Services Are Spamming Scum
Over the past few days a Coleraine based company, Lotus Chinese Medical Services, have been systematically spamming a LOT of Irish companies. While spam may be annoying and I'm no stranger to it, what makes this spam a little different and more annoying is the payload. The idiots are sending out a rather large PDF attachment with each and every email! The file is about 2 … [Read more...] about Lotus Chinese Medical Services Are Spamming Scum
OpenWRT
As I mentioned before, I have been using a number of different linux firmware versions on my LinkSys WRT54G. For the last few weeks I was using SveaSoft's firmware, as the previous firmware had caused me headaches. The Sveasoft solution worked quite well, but I had some crazy routing issues which left me rather confused. It was as if certain blocks of the internet simply ceased … [Read more...] about OpenWRT