I mentioned a post about prolific bloggers a while back. It seems I'm in that top 100 for the moment :) I wouldn't expect to be there for long - there are a lot of very prolific bloggers out there! … [Read more...] about Most Prolific Bloggers?
Irish CC Company Lands Major Online Deal
Realex have won a very tasty contract - the online payments for one of the largest online shops in Europe - CDWow! While I've known about this for several months I had promised their CEO, Colm Lyon, not to blog about it until they'd officially announced it, which I see they've now done. I'm delighted for Colm. He deserves every success. … [Read more...] about Irish CC Company Lands Major Online Deal
Common Design / SEO Mistakes
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