Podge and Rodge Irish Test

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPc931hfNL0

These are the rules.

The rules are subject to change, but you are always advised to follow the current set of rules. They are not all of the rules. They are some of the rules. The absence in this list of a particular rule does not mean you don’t have to follow it, if indeed it is a rule. These are intended to be a simple set of general rules for dealing with the kinds of interactions that are prevalent on the internet (web/email). Some of them also apply to the telephone. Use of the rules is at your own risk (as is use of the internet).

But you do have to follow these, even if you’ve lost your rulebook under the stack of AOL CDs. Remember, there are lots of people out there trying to scam you. Don’t make it easier for them. These rules derive from the core principles of “don’t execute untrusted code” and “verify your contacts”.

A New Pope

Wandering my way through several weeks worth of b3ta atm, so sorry if I’m behind the times…

Are you still here?

It really is just too easy to wander away from doing this, and “keep your meme fresh”; as somone like Bernie would put it. (I’m always at poor Bernie, aren’t I?) (more…)

Good job IrelandOffline!

Well done to IrelandOffline for their immediate response to the current edition of ComReg’s utterly fictitious quarterly reports; and for dealing with an unusually sympathetic media response superbly. (more…)

Groovy game

I like this. If you’re naughty, you can skip the queue via digg.

I don’t understand this

A number of web companies are teaming up to create a database of child porn images, which they claim will be used to monitor for child porn being distributed around their networks, in much the same way antivirus companies keep virus databases, and antispam companies keep corpuses. (more…)

10 people who don’t matter

I’d imagine that this Business 2.0 story is doing the rounds a lot faster than it’s daddy, “The 50 people who matter now”. We do like to see people dissed, particularly when one of them is Microsoft’s head psycho Steve Ballmer. Odd to see him in the company of Linus Torvalds and Rob Malda though!

Can Irish bloggers pull off Exley?

So to speak. I’ve had this as a draft since the “Can Labour pull off innovation” item, but I never got around to actually writing it. In basic terms though, I think Exley will do his best to leverage the Irish blogging community – since just blogging on behalf of Rabbitte won’t be innovative enough – in the same way ye all do, pulling each other up by the bootstraps; and I’m wondering how the Irish blogging community will respond to that. (more…)