The copyright was was just the beginning. – Recorded at the 28th Chaos Communication Congress. The last 20 years of Internet policy have been dominated by the copyright war, but the war turns out only to have been a skirmish. The coming century will be dominated by war against the general purpose computer, and the stakes [...]
A Taste Of Home
December 20, 2011 By 3 Comments
No matter where I’ve lived outside of Ireland, one thing that’s always irked me was (without going to rare specialty stores) the ability to get proper Irish brown bread, bacon, beans, and black and white pudding. It’s not that other countries didn’t have their own variations on this stuff but everybody does it their own [...]
Bosco: Resurrection
December 20, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Those of you who didn’t grow up in Ireland in the 70′s and 80′s won’t appreciate this or remember Bosco, but for me, this trailer has ruined my childhood in a very wonderful way. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AmKnXdUYCQ
Is W3 Total Cache Still Supported?
December 20, 2011 By 2 Comments
Is W3 Total Cache still in development for WordPress or has it been abandoned? W3 Total Cache is one of those really cool WordPress plugins that everybody who’s serious about WordPress knows about, and even a lot of people who just have a passing knowledge have at least heard of it. It’s one of the [...]
Christopher Hitchens, 1949–2011
December 16, 2011 By 1 Comment
Famous people die every day and I most certainly don’t write about them here, but the passing of Christopher Hitchens is one that touches me, very deeply, as in recent years more than anybody he has provided the insights and perhaps the standard to which I wish to aspire as an atheist and I suppose [...]
C’mon Ireland We Can Be Just Like The Worst Of America – Tallafornia
December 15, 2011 By 2 Comments
No seriously, with just a smidgen of effort we can be exactly like the Americans that even the Americans despise! Never before have I felt as much second-hand shame and embarrassment at being Irish. Tallafornia? Is this some sort of a sick joke? Who are these wankers? TV3 you have a lot to answer for! [...]
Facebook fb_xd_fragment Problem – .htaccess Solution
December 12, 2011 By 2 Comments
Sara was trawling through Google Analytics for our sites and noted that a number of posts showed their URL’s with an appended “?fb_xd_fragment=” like this: http://sitename.com/postname/index.php?fb_xd_fragment= http://sitename.com/postname/?fb_xd_fragment= This is a known Facebook bug with the “Like button” and one that Facebook probably won’t resolve as it has been ongoing for quite a while now. It [...]
Vanity Searches – Do You Use Them?
December 5, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Vanity searches is a terrible term. It’s fitting, it’s accurate (in most cases) but it just sounds so… well, vain! I am subscribed to quite a number of RSS feeds of Google Alerts for my name (and variations of it) , searches for my mentions of my websites and associated social media pages, feeds of [...]
Explicit ‘href’ Problem With Facebook Comments
On all of our sites which are using Facebook comments we’re currently getting the following warning: Warning: this comments plugin is operating in compatibility mode, but has no posts yet. Consider specifying an explicit ‘href’ as suggested in the comments plugin documentation to take advantage of all plugin features. Facebook has (again) changed the code for displaying [...]