Jimmy manages to get the oddest links. He sent this to me this morning: The next time you find yourself on public transport or an aircraft, sitting next to someone who cannot resist chattering to you endlessly, I urge you to quietly pull your laptop out of your rucksack, carefully open the screen (ensuring the irritating person next to you can see it), and hit this link. … [Read more...] about Laptop Users …
See you at Barcamp
I'll be heading down to Waterford early on Saturday morning. My only issue will be finding the actual venue, as I'm not that familiar with Waterford. Elly pointed me in the right direction for hotels, so at least I've got that bit sorted out. It should be an interesting day and hopefully a fun night :) … [Read more...] about See you at Barcamp
IE Namespace – We Need Personal Domains!
In my day job (honestly I do have one!) I run one of the largest registrars / resellers of IE domains (the IE ccTLD is the domain name for Ireland). In the course of doing that I have spent quite a lot of time becoming accustomed to the rules and regulations that govern both the naming and general registration criteria of IE domains. In some cases I can understand why rules are … [Read more...] about IE Namespace – We Need Personal Domains!
More Blog Changes ….
And for once they're not mine :) Paul has finally got round to enabling comments on his blog - the aptly named weird.ie. Niall didn't jump on the bandwagon - he climbed onto it slowly - anti-blog style, so it's only a matter of time before we'll have the rest of the Blacknight staff blogging :) I've no idea what he'll blog about, so it'll be interesting to see … [Read more...] about More Blog Changes ….
Swicki Anyone?
Niche search is a fascinating area. A lot of people seem to think that Google IS the answer to all your searching needs, whereas I would tend to think that it is just part of the answer. GoogleBot (or Slurp) cannot always tell the difference between a keyword rich splog and a keyword rich website. It's for this reason that I believe human edited directories still play an … [Read more...] about Swicki Anyone?