We (my family and I) are heading off to Spain (on a house swap holiday) so there will be no posting to this blog for a couple of weeks (the house we are getting doesn’t have broadband)!
Don’t anyone turn off the Internet while I’m gone!!!
Archive for August, 2006
I mentioned earlier this week that I have been asked to give a presentation on Microsoft’s relevance in the Web 2.0 arena. What I didn’t mention was that this presentation is to an internal Microsoft conference for the EMEA region managers and the conference is taking place in Switzerland towards the end of September!
Unfortunately I won’t be able to report back what I hear there but it will be a fascinating opportunity to see inside Microsoft and the people who reside therein!
If any of them have horns and/or tails I’ll let you know oh, and if anyone has any great insights into Microsoft and Web 2.0, please feel free to leave them in the comments.
via Pat Phelan comes a nifty WordPress plugin which speeds up posting from WordPress blogs.
Called WP-No Ping Wait, the plugin works by waiting until after the post has been posted before alerting the pinging services!
Nice one, thanks Pat.
UPDATE - this plugin has caused issues on a number of sites I manage so I have disabled it until a more stable version comes out.
I switched my telephony over to VOIP earlier this year. I signed up for an account with Irish VOIP co. Blueface and the service has been, on the whole, fairly reliable.
In fact, I was so happy with the service I recommended it in a Sunday Times article on VOIP this last weekend.
Boy do I feel stupid now - the VOIP service has been down for over 12 hours now leaving me with no phone service for incoming or outgoing calls (apart from my mobile).
For now, if you need to call me, call me to my mobile (+353 86 384 0828).
Update: Phone service has returned to normal after nearly 24 hours and no explanation of the downtime.
I saw a post on Tech Crunch announcing that Flickr had introduced Geo Tagging (finally!).
I tried it out and I am well impressed, I have to say. It recognises photos which have been previously geotagged and asks if you want to import them. It allows batch tagging (if you have several images which were taken at the one spot) and it uses a simple drag and drop interface.
You access the functionality by clickong on the Organize menu (not the dropdown but the Organize menu itself) and then choose the Map tab - not the most intuitive but after that it is entirely straightforward!
Where now is Zooomr’s usp?
UPDATE: I see the Flickr blog now has a post on this
Bad Behaviour blocks TechMeme
I noticed recently that none of my posts were appearing on TechMeme so I emailed Gabe Rivera, TechMeme’s founder to ask what the problem was. He responded:
Bad Behaviour is an anti-spam plugin that I have written about previously.
As I don’t see a way to whitelist, I have disabled Bad Behaviour and I advise anyone else to do so until this can be sorted.
Thanks for the speedy response Gabe.
UPDATE: - Michael Hampton, Bad Behavior’s developer has contacted me to say it is possible to Whitelist TechMeme by adding its ip address (70.86.131.10) to the Whitelist-inc.php file - this fix didn’t work for me but may be worth a try if you do want to use Bad Behavior.