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Skimming through my feeds this morning, I look through the excellent Oasis.gov.ie feed and find something of interest for the St. Patrick’s festival this week.
St. Patricks Festival begins in Dublin this Wednesday. What events are taking place around the city?
If we were in Dublin, I would definately try to get to see “Frankie Gavin - […]

About 2/3 years ago, I remember being asked by a Guinness representative to take part in a Guinness consumer test (Do you drink Guinness? Yes I answered. If so, how often? I said often!) for a new product they were thinking of bringing out.
It turned out to be the now released Guinness Surger.

The device is […]

This morning I had a nice surprise when I got a short e-mail from Damián Vila, a fellow Fonero, from Spain.
He sent me a link to his (unofficial yet excellent!) logos, badges, desktop images and screensaver (PC) he has made.
They are all absolutely excellent images, and definately could be used by the Fon guys.
I particularly […]

I have been looking for a mail2blogpost plugin for Wordpress for months. After upgrading to the new 2.0.1 I started to look through the available plugins.
If this works, I will have posted using Postie (http:// postie.economysizegeek.com/) an easy plugin to configure.
Lets see

After hearing about the interesting idea of DCU’s Institute for Ethics last week, I made contact with an ex-collegue in DCU. After asking if it was known who funded the Institute, I received a reply from someone with FOI knowledge in DCU:
> Good to hear from you.
> With regard to your query on who is […]

Antoin, Ireland’s Chief Fonero (at least it sounds better than Fon-ie!) is off in Madrid, home city to Fon.
Ireland now has 7 fonspots operational. As more and more people hear of Fon, more will come live.
All of the people who won a Fon router at the Irish Blog Awards on Saturday, if you guys have […]

Well yesterday morning after seeing Tom Raftery off back to Cork, with his Bloggie in toe, I decided to upgrade Wordpress, from 1.5 to 2.02 (from trailing edge to bleeding edge!).
Well, I ignored the recommended way, and decided to do it “my style”…and managed to borke everything. Combined with the fact that we had some […]

I got my hands on an Eircom Advantage VOIP phone this morning to see how it works.
The handset looks standard business like. Grey, and buttons. Branded Eircom also.
When I connected it to our LAN, it firstly looked for our DHCP server (is it possible to give it a fixed IP?), then I presume got across […]