RunningWithBulls.com - The curse of Sanfermin

Reading SANs Internet Storm Centre feed and I came across this interesting log entry - The most hated IP address of 2005.
Most Hated Netblock:195.225.176.x - 195.225.177.x (AS31159)
Provider: Netcathost, Kiev, Ukraine
Reason for claim to fame: Hosting exploits, browser hijackers and CoolWebSearch related annoyances since several months. Ignoring, bouncing, or rejecting any complaints to the abuse […]

Noam Chomsky is coming to Ireland for his January 18th for what is already an overbooked talk. (I have my request in for tickets since November) Today Prof. Chomsky is quoted in the Irish Times (page 7). Its a pity that no one seems to be making a big enough fuss of this. People went […]

Om Malik writes about something that I was waiting to see if it would happen - scraping high profile blogs and repackaging them.
He writes for he past few days that someone had been scraping his site, categories and all, and rebranding it as a “magazine” site (right…whatever!).
The dodgy thing is that they did not change […]

Reading Michele’s posts today and I find my second favourite (well second behind Fourty Coats) children’s TV character, Judge, is being used by EBay.ie to teach people how to buy safely online.
It is a good idea, but as Michele mentions, the younger audience (ie under 25-30) might not make the connection between Judge, Judge’s Safe-Cross […]

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I am not sure if James Corbett of EirePreneur (who incidently, I see has changed his URL) is greedy, but if he is then apparently it is good for his health.
I am not saying that greed is good for you, or that all entrepreneurs are greedy. This is the view of the Economist.
“[…] one group […]

This is a test for e-mail2blog

Back in February this year, I posted a simple test of Blueface’s free test account.
10 months on and I have now subscribed for their Freedom Basic account. I have also bought Linksys PAP2 ATA for our DECT handset.
All is going perfectly. If I was able to remove 1) my Eircom phoneline, or 2) remove my […]