Macrolog: Technobabble
Mommy, What's a Folksonomy? Thu 24 Mar 2005
After mulling over the idea for the past few weeks, I recently got around to adding folksonomic tags to my individual weblog entries. Don’t know what a folksonomy is? The...
Blogging from the Apple Store Wed 05 Jan 2005
I’ve been away for a while (lots more to come on that) but right now I’m at the Apple Store on Regent Street in London, with the lovely Benitha in...
My First Notebook Tue 07 Sep 2004
Apologies for the lack of content this week, but I’ve been busy playing with my latest toy: a brand-spanking-new Apple iBook G4. Isn’t it beautiful?...
Movable Hype Fri 14 May 2004
It’s been a busy time on the web this week, what with all the commotion about the Iraqi prison abuses and the allegedly hoaxed photos and the Nick Berg tragedy...
Flash Mob Incorporated? Wed 03 Sep 2003
From the New Media Diary in Monday’s Guardian: [The London Evening] Standard gets its four stars for coverage of this silly season’s cause celebre, flash-mobbing. After an earlier event at...
Powered by Movable Type Thu 17 Jul 2003
Spurred on by recent musings on the subject by Jason Kottke, and especially by Matt Haughey’s helpful walk-through essay, I am currently in the process of am now publishing my...
Spam Begone! Sat 12 Jul 2003 | 1 Comments
I never used to get so much spam until sometime last year, when the problem suddenly worsened ten-fold. Maybe it was a general trend that I had no control over,...
Browser Bug Blues Wed 07 May 2003
Camino crashed on me about an hour ago. Took me ages to figure out how to reinstall it. When I finally did, I moved my bookmarks file from the desktop...
A Catalogue of Errors Mon 03 Feb 2003
There's a piece in today's Media Guardian praising the success of Argos's e-commerce operation. Apparently, they have "a long term commitment to the medium". It's a shame that this commitment...
Changes Are In Order Fri 31 Jan 2003
Of late it seems as if there has been a mass exodus of Blogger users to pastures new. The proprietor of plasticbag.org is but one of many to jump...
Broadband... Soon? Thu 23 Jan 2003
It took an ultimatum from the telecoms regulator to do it, but it looks like we might soon have affordable broadband here. Of course knowing my luck, Eircom would...
Fancy New Browser Wins Top Award Sat 11 Jan 2003
What with all the ruckus surrounding this new Safari thingamajig (which I can't even run on my machine, running as I am the pre-Jaguar incarnation of OS X), here's...
On Switching Sun 22 Dec 2002
Yet another reason why switching to Apple was a great decision....
FRIACO On The Way Thu 24 Oct 2002
The Minister for Communications, Marine & Natural Resources, Dermot Ahern, is issuing a directive instructing the telecommunications regulator to introduce flat rate internet access in the Irish market. It's...
XML and Weblogging Fri 10 May 2002
An interesting piece about how the implementation of XML could help improve weblogging. I'm surprised such an idea never crossed my mind before, seeing as I keep a weblog...
Tools Fri 01 Mar 2002
Tools keeps getting better and better. One of the latest additions is a link to Gnod, which I'm playing around with now....
Ten Million Posts Tue 26 Feb 2002
This is the 10 millionth post to a Blogger-powered website. It's actually quite funny too. This post is probably quite redundant, since everyone and their mother is gonna link...
Oscars for Weblogs? Thu 10 Jan 2002
Mat has a permalink to my blog! I feel like I've won an Oscar... do they give Oscars for weblogs?...
Zeitgeist Mon 07 Jan 2002
Mat's got a link to the Google Zeitgeist for 2001....
Ireland Offline Fri 16 Nov 2001
Now this is interesting: I just tried to visit the thumped.com website, and was confronted with this. At first look I thought it was some hacker job, then after...
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