Our google ranking has magically improved almost overnight. I'm not going to complain about that :mrgreen: , I just wish I knew why our site sometimes vanishs completely. Interestingly enough Google has now learnt about our domain aliases, so all the results point to one domain, which makes more sense. We aren't being penalised as we don't use doorway pages or any other … [Read more...] about Google again
Beamish & Civic Pride
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