Finally, after years of waiting, Technorati has given me something to smile about. Look what turned up in the captcha as I signed up a new account for a site I’m working on! Yep, you read that right! Technorati is now offering gropings for all those lonely bloggers out there. Maybe this is how they [...]
O’Flaherty Episode #21 – Show me the money!
September 28, 2008 By 2 Comments
Show me the money! Recorded on my cell phone, I talk about how Technorati has become irrelevant, how much money the average blogger makes their blog, opening unsolicited emails and finally naming and shaming companies which use human spammers. Links Blogging is x3 times bigger than porn. My ass! How much money do you earn [...]
Blogging is x3 times bigger than porn. My ass!
September 23, 2008 By 17 Comments
It’s always fun comparing sizes, but this time it think this time the “Technorati State of the Blogosphere” may have popped one to many viagras. I wasn’t even aware that the “State of the Blogosphere” had begun to be published until Sara pointed me to the TechCrunch article about it and immediately something jumped out [...]
Maybe I'm stupid but…
September 20, 2008 By 2 Comments
Why doesn’t the @replies button on Twitter show all tweets that contain @pauloflaherty? At the moment it shows only the ones that have @pauloflaherty at the start of the tweet. If it’s at the middle or at the end then it doesn’t show. I know I can search for tweets that have @pauloflaherty in them, [...]
Automatically set Vista audio device?
September 19, 2008 By 2 Comments
I’ve generally been happy with Vista lately, since most of the driver issues have been sorted, but one thing that still annoys me is the inability to set which audio device is used by which program (apparently I am not alone either). Here’s the crux of the problem. I listen to a lot of music [...]
Rainbows in your water supply. The new weapon of terror!
September 19, 2008 By 3 Comments
Thanks to Rob for linking this one! Please, please tell me that they’re aren’t really people this stupid in existence! I really do hope this video is nothing more than a joke or the woman whos voice is featured should have all rights to reproduce removed before she can contaminate the gene pool further! I [...]
Chrome beat Opera – IE is next!! No really, it's true I tells ya!
September 6, 2008 By 13 Comments
So everybody (including me) is talking about Google Chrome. Yeah, great big woop! It’s simply yet another browser with a number of cool features which the big boys will rip off duplicate over time. To anyone who truly thinks Chrome will beat Internet Explorer for market share over time. Get your head out of your [...]
Everybody's talking – right?
September 6, 2008 By 5 Comments
An IM conversation with Sara from Suburban Oblivion about the new Microsoft ad campaign with Seinfeld and Bill Gates. The conversation says it all really! [15:50:12] Paul O’Flaherty says: [15:53:21] Paul O’Flaherty says: Did you see this yet?[15:53:21] Paul O’Flaherty says: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/windows/default.aspx[15:54:31] Sara says: the ads? no[15:54:43] Paul O’Flaherty says: Don’t know what to make [...]
SEO/SEM "Do Follow" Blogs list pisses me off
I don’t know how I ended up on the SEO/SEM “Do Follow” Blogs list , which is currently doing the rounds of the crapper end of the SEO blogs but I want off the damn thing! Now! If there was ever a reason for me to want to turn “no follow” on for all comments [...]