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This is sadly, ultra-cool in my opinion. These days there is so much emphasis placed on website usability and look and feel that it’s refreshing and nice to see somebody take it all back to brass tacks. Mark Woodman. Truly inspired IMHO. via: Tom Raftery
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Up until now fast food and phones have always gone hand in hand. “Hello XYZ Pizza.” “Yes, I’d like a extra large special delivered to…” Now, however, it has gone one step further. McDonalds and DoCoMo in Japan are offering people the ability to pay for their burgers and fries using their mobile phone as…
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Vmware how to – OSx86 Ever wanted Mac OSX on your PC? Apparently this is one way… (tags: mac apple osx pc vmware install) Brian White // dogg.ie » Gay Byrne on drugs A quip by Brian on the latest media announcement by gay Byrne – worth a read (tags: gay byrne drugs media ireland…
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Interesting summation of what DRM actually means as opposed to the techie description of what it actually is. Handy if you should ever find yourself at a party and in dire need of plain English to describe the problem to people who may just not be interested. 🙂 source: WIRED Blogs: Listening Post
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If like me you think that Gmail is most definitely the greatest web-based e-mail system you have ever used and even though your better judgement warns you against ticking the Google search boxes that allow searching of your e-mail through Google Desktop, you know you just want to anyway. Here’s a link to somebody else…
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More problems with outsourcing – this time from my birthplace of Swansea in South Wales. Apparently the cit council has outsourced its IT and councillors are only complaining ever since. I have to say that I share many of these views on outsourcing and it’s about time that people realise that trying to save a…
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That has to have been the greatest game of rugby that I have ever seen. Scoreline aside, the way in which the Irish team played together and, in no lesser a term, annihilated the English side was simply breathtaking. The second last try from Shane Horgan and Ronan O’Gara was definitely inspired by the GAA…
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I’ve been blogging now since about January 2002, sadly my Greymatter archives for all bar March 2002 were lost between site updates. Technically speaking if you count my misadventures with procmail recipes and perl scripts then I’ve been “blogging” since early 2001. Up until recently I wrote stuff mostly for my own amusement, to keep…
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Visual Studio Express Free cut-down Microsoft tools known as the express versions. Great resource for developers wanting to experiment with .net (tags: .net microsoft express developer development tools compiler ide programming free) Simplex Method Tool Useful site for anyone working with simplex method questions. Easy enough to use and helpful when you’re not sure of…
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This morning I opened my RSS reader much like any other day. Then trawling through the day’s updates I spotted this post from Bernie. Our techie ambassador from the Irish Times, Karlin Lillington, has returned after a very long absense from the blogosphere (March 6th 2006 according to my RSS reader). Looking forward to new…