Tumblr has Tumbled…

03Nov07

Well it looks like Tumblr has died for the moment. They did a big upgrade on November 1st but for some reason either completely failed to test it or there were some nasty bugs hiding in the long grass. Whichever it is the RSS import feature was broken, then sort of fixed, then [...]

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Hell Hath No Fury…

03Oct07

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The Irish blogosphere1 has been abuzz for the last couple of days with the latest example of how potentially powerful bloggers have become in Ireland, how careful – and informed – companies have to be to avoid running into serious PR trouble and how they should really learn to react in [...]

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Happenings

25Sep07

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I’ve finally caught the Twitter meme1 (you can follow me here). I was skeptical about it for a long time but I suddenly realised that my problem with it had always been with the way that the guys at Twitter were trying to pitch it – as a great tool [...]

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WordPress Fun

24Apr07

I guess I haven’t been stressing WordPress until now but yesterday’s post didn’t quite work out as planned. I’m probably trying to be a bit too fancy with the layout but because I’m using WordPress’ free hosting1 and don’t have as much control over the layout as I’d like I had to hack it [...]

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Buy Our Anti-Skin Failure Elixir Before It’s Too Late!

23Apr07

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Olvier Ansaldi beat me to the punch1 on a small piece that appeared in this morning’s edition of the free Dublin newspaper Metro2:
Four in every five blogs on popular websites contain potentially offensive content, such as pornography, new research claims. Computer software firm ScanSafe, which commissioned the report [...]
You know, I’m [...]

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