Geansai Gorm in Barcamp Cork

I’m heading down to barcamp cork later this evening. The plan is to fly down on the 20:20 flight with Ryanair. Hopefully I will see you all there! If anyone is staying in the lancaster lodge let me know as a few of us staying three. On another note Geansai Gorm has been launched by [...]

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WordPress speed issue, blog running slow problem?

For the last 3 weeks my blog has been running really, really slow. With the long weekend upon us, I decided to take some time to try and find / fix the issue. After 4 hours of poking around, it turned out to be a number of issues… I assumed that when I moved to [...]

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Irish Web Awards

The Irish Web Awards are on this Saturday (11th, 2008). One of our websites the Irish Independent (Yes I work for The Irish Independent now) has been nominated for Best Online Publication. I will be there on the night with Carol Sweeny representing the Independent Digital Team. Pop over to us and have a chat [...]

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Software Freedom Day 2008

Photo owned by Isha.Net* (cc) The event will start at 11am on Saturday, September 20th. The location is The Digital Exchange, Crane St., Digital Hub, Dublin 8. What can you expect? Talks [approx. 30min. each] 11:00am Doors open – time to explore the venue 11:30am Paul O’Malley – What You Should Know About Software Freedom [...]

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New Dublin coworking space

Photo owned by Francesco Crippa (cc) Eamon Leonard who was formally involved in TL01. Is planning to set up a new coworking space in Dublin. He already has Ken Stanley the self appointed “web standards legand” on board. See coworking.ie for more details. If your interested in getting involved leave a comment or pop Eamon [...]

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Tweet tweet SMS twiter to your phone

Yesterday I had the pleasure of helping Donncha O Caoimh out by contributing to the WordPress Tweet Tweet plugin. I added support for vodafone.ie free texts. You can now receive a SMS message (via vodafone.ie free text) when someone sends you a reply or direct message. Try out the plugin and let us  know what [...]

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Free Books, Take em of leave em!

I seen a post by Laura about a cool book swapping thing. It reminded me that I have a bag of books (they WEIGH a TONNE) that need getting rid of! Before I do .. Before i go to this book swap thing I would like to offload some of them So going for FREE [...]

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ifood.tv

ifood.tv Site seemed to be down after a pitch on the Dragons den? The site seems to be hosted by Layered Technologies, Inc. Might as well host in the USA What the dragons said was correct .. its http://ifoods.tv/ not ifood.tv Strange thing is ive been to the site many times and mixed this up! Time to [...]

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Cheap Solid State Drive, DIY SSD from €180

I had a bit of a brainwave today. I started looking into using SD cards in an array that could be used as a cheap solid state drive. With the price of SD memory dropping it seemed like a sensible alternative to expensive drives on the market. On my travels I bumped into a nice [...]

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Vodafone saga

Looks like Frank had some issues with vodafone too.. After my saga with the vodafone n95, I thought I had seen the end of vodafone cluelessness..

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