Last Monday I spent the afternoon sorting out a few administrative tasks that I had been putting off for ages, as I had been dreading them. First of all I had to renew my passport and then I had to renew my driving license. I expected both operations to be awkward and time consuming, but I was happily mistaken! The Gardai were very helpful in filling out the forms for the … [Read more...] about Irish Bureaucracy – Working Well (for once!)
MailScanner – Even More New Features
Julian has just released the August version of MailScanner and, as usual, has made a great bit of software even better. One of the things that has always been awkward to track were changes in the config ie. our custom changes vs. Julian's default settings. You can now see this easily by running: MailScanner --changed which will output a table of values that have been changed. … [Read more...] about MailScanner – Even More New Features
AerLingus.com – Taken Over by Americans?
For some odd reason the Aer Lingus website is now defaulting to the display for US visitors. I've tried this from several different IP ranges and it always does the same thing. Haven't they heard of Geo IP?? … [Read more...] about AerLingus.com – Taken Over by Americans?
Irish SEO – Where to Submit Your Site
If people don't know about your website they can't visit it. Simple fact. Of course there are mountains of content written on how best to optimise your website for search engines etc., but it cannot hurt to spend a couple of hours manually submitting your site to search engines and directories. Some people will whine about non-Pr passing links ie. sites using redirectors … [Read more...] about Irish SEO – Where to Submit Your Site
Blogging from Nokia 9300i
I recently got a Nokia 9300i, so I ended up posting to this blog from it yesterday. It was not a pleasant experience! To overcome the basic display issues with the public area of my blog I installed Alex King's Wordpress Mobile Edition, which strips your blog down to the bare minimum and makes it perfectly usable from a PDA / mobile device. But what about actually posting to … [Read more...] about Blogging from Nokia 9300i