As part of our sponsorship of the inaugaral Irish Blog Awards we'd like to offer all nominees a little something. We are offering all nominees a blog hosting plan + FREE domain (com/net/org/info/biz/co.uk) for one year. The package details are as follows: 200 MB diskspace 2.5 Gb monthly transfer FREE domain name* FREE email filtering Choice of Wordpress or Drupal … [Read more...] about More Blogging Goodies
Cultureireland.ie WIPO Decision
Ambrand mentions the WIPO decision regarding the domain cultureireland.ie The case is between Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism and Odyssey Internet Portal Limited. It seems that Odyssey registered the domain after the Department had either failed to renew the domain or simply let it expire. While they had held the domain for a period up to 2004 they were no longer the … [Read more...] about Cultureireland.ie WIPO Decision
Finding Irish Business Bloggers
In preparation for my seminar for the IIA I've spent some time investigating Irish business blogs and bloggers. Strangely enough today's Sunday Business Post also carries a piece on business blogging: Firms woo the blog generation Wow! That's great. I may be able to pick up some nice bits and pieces to add to my seminar. Oh how wrong could I have been. As Damien rightly points … [Read more...] about Finding Irish Business Bloggers
O’Reilly Has A Sense of Humour?
A very amusing post by fuzzix shows the choice of iconography by technical publisher O'Reilly when producing books related to Microsoft technologies. Comparing one of his examples (VB Script) with Perl is quite revealing: Which of the two animals looks more reassuring? … [Read more...] about O’Reilly Has A Sense of Humour?
Internet Explorer 7 (beta)
I've been playing with the beta release of IE 7 for the last couple of weeks on and off (ie. on those rare occasions that I bother booting into windows outside office hours) It was due to its stupidity that I ended up posting the last entry twice! What can I say about it? Not a whole lot I'm afraid The tabbed browsing is a nice addition, but as a Firefox user leaves me … [Read more...] about Internet Explorer 7 (beta)