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)
Windows Live Messenger 8 (beta)
I was sent an invite to take the beta version of Windows Messenger 8 for a test drive. The download site didn't have any issue with me logging in with Firefox, but the download button was "dead" until I logged back in with Internet Explorer (I'm trying the beta of that as well). Installation was easy and no reboot was required, which is a nice change compared to so many windows … [Read more...] about Windows Live Messenger 8 (beta)
Losing Posts
Somehow.. Not sure how exactly, but I just managed to lose a blog post I was writing! Damn that is annoying … [Read more...] about Losing Posts