The IIA Netvisionary awards were held last night in Killiney Castle hotel.
Twenty Major won the best blog category and Brian Greene won the best podcast - both richly deserved.
Twenty contacted me a couple of weeks back and asked me to accept the award on his behalf, on the offchance that he won, as he wasn’t going to be able to make it along.
To the guests on the night though, it must have looked like some kind of bad movie when Twenty’s name was called out and I stood up to accept. “Ah no, quick before he makes an even bigger eejit of himself, someone tell Tom it was Twenty won, not Tom”
A great night was had - thanks to all involved and sincere congrats to all the winners.
I have a busy couple of days ahead - expect light posting.
- today I have a couple of CIX-related sales meetings
- I have an it@cork pre-conference podcast with Eddie Hobbs to edit and publish
- tomorrow I have several meetings in Dublin followed by the Netvisionary Awards night
- Friday I have an early morning (6:50 am) flight to Brussels for the Microsoft Belgium gig followed by a blogger’s dinner in Belgium
- Saturday, I fly back to Cork (wohoo!) through Dublin (d’oh! - I despise Dublin airport)
- phew!
Microsoft released updates for critical vulnerabilities in Windows (2000, XP and 2003). This includes fixes for three vulnerabilities that “criminal hackers are already exploiting” according to Brian Krebs.
The patches fix vulnerabilities which can allow remote code execution (it doesn’t come much worse than that!).
Personally, I think they are trying to scare people into upgrading to Vista 
Let the conspiracy theories commence…
Sun announced today that they were releasing Java under a GPL license. This can only be a good thing.
Sun’s Jonathan Schwartz’ take on it is here and it is an interesting read.
More over on TechMeme.
My good buddy Salim has taken the covers off his latest venture Confabb and it has received a glowing review from TechCrunch, amongst others.
Confabb is a conference aggregation and organisation site. It has a database of over 16,000 conferences and the ability to log in and add more or use the site to help plan a conference.
Robert Scoble has posted a great interview with Salim where Salim talks about how they brought the site to launch without spending any money!
I’m looking forward to seeing Salim when he comes back to Cork for the 2006 it@cork conference to speak about global domination on a limited budget - an apt talk for Salim, methinks!
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