Category Archives: Internet

Google Analytics script 97% slower at peak in Europe

According to Pingdom, performance in Europe is significantly worse than Stateside. Lets hope AdSense performs better. Beef up that European infrastructure Google! And webmasters, make sure that script is at the bottom of your pages, not the top! As you … Continue reading

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Palm Pre

[This has been in my drafts since January 9, only noticed it now. It does have a motion sensor and landscape mode btw.] The wife’ll kill me, I want one of these and I only have my Treo Pro a … Continue reading

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Corcaigh social network on Ning

Some folk on Boards started a meatspace social network but it’s kinda hidden away, so I created a Ning network for it. Feel free to join. I’m not sure the Boardsies will, there seems to be a tendency to keep … Continue reading

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.TEL Coming Soon

New TLD sunrising on December 3, landrushing Feb 3, GA March 24. Very cool service with no hosting required, everything is done via the DNS. Put your contact details in a few NAPTR records, add your location in a LOC … Continue reading

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Tweetrush Is Here

A project I would love to have been more involved with, hopefully I’ll be forgiven for opting out to get married… Well done to AJ, Grzegorz, James, Slawomir and Walter for getting  their  Tweetrush proof of concept Techcrunched today. I … Continue reading

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The Planet Bad, StatCounter Good

I was affected by this outage at The Planet last week. Outage is understatement of the month, the server disappeared on Saturday, came back up on Tuesday night, was gone again on Monday morning, and stayed that way until Wednesday. … Continue reading

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CIX Open Day

Cork Internet eXchange is holding an open day next Thursday the 21st at 10am, do pop in if you’re around. It’ll be the last chance to see the underlying mechanics of the DC, as we’ll be covering up all the … Continue reading

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HTML updates at last!

Although I can understand why the W3C went the XHTML route several years ago, I think it was a distraction from the beautiful simplicity of basic HTML, which essentially made the web what it is today. If it wasn’t for … Continue reading

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Mulley Dugg

I hope you’re on a good server Damien. ;)

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Sky Handling Partners Gay?

Heading to Glasto in about six hours so I don’t have time to comment Damien, but hopefully a link will help a little bit. Good luck giving it back to them up the arse. :)

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