Tom has started a campaign to force Beamish to do something about their buildings. The state some of those buildings are in is truly shameful, expecially when you consider that Cork is going to be European City of Culture in 2005. … [Read more...] about Beamish & Civic Pride
Movable Type > WordPress
I originally setup this blog as a number of our clients were asking about running blogs on our servers and I hadn't any experience with the various tools involved. After trying a few different perl and php blogging tools I settled on Movable Type. MT was quite easy to install, but requires a number of Perl modules that do not come with a base install of Perl.As MT is so … [Read more...] about Movable Type > WordPress
Linux on the laptop… Update
A couple of months ago I was experimenting with Mandrake on my ancient Dell laptop. Well time goes on and so does my choice of distro for my laptop. Although Mandrake was working fine I decided to experiment a little, so I replaced Mandrake 9.* with Mandrake 10 via a net install. Once that was running "happily" it was time to change again, so the next distro I tried was Suse … [Read more...] about Linux on the laptop… Update
Sony takes the chip
Sony has won a landmark case in the UK against a British citizen accused of illegally supplying mod chips for Sony playstations. The ruling follows on the implementation of stringent EU copyright laws late last year. Yet another blow against consumers has been struck. … [Read more...] about Sony takes the chip
Google PR and indexing
Google seems to have changed its listing criteria yet again. One possible theory being posited for this latest sea change is the growth of sales in text links. Whether this is true or not is really a matter of making an educated guess, rather than anything based on concrete facts. Why so? Well Google don't make a habit of releasing their secrets Some search phrases that I … [Read more...] about Google PR and indexing