Andy Beard is thinking about moving his blog to a dedicated server. The move appears to have been put in motion by the recent experiences of Tricia and myself with regards to our treatment by our web hosts. (Vlad also pinged me today about his experiences with hosting from Yahoo!) Now before I go any further [...]
Folks who make me exercise the grey matter.
May 1, 2007 By 2 Comments
I’ve been sitting on the “Thinking Blogger” meme ever since Andy Beard tagged me. I’ve got to thank Andy for nominating me. I must admit to having been shocked, but I am deeply honored. It’s taken me quite a while to respond because I wanted to be sure, that when, or even if, I tagged [...]
Elaine Vigneault thinks I'm a whiner!
May 1, 2007 By 10 Comments
I started writing this post at 4am this morning as a reply to a comment left by Elaine Vigneault. It quickly expanded beyond that and rapidly warranted a post all of it’s own. So here it is Elaine, a reply to the comment which you thought I’d remove. The background! Elaine Vigneault called me a whiner today! [...]
I know what the Link Whores need!
April 29, 2007 By 1 Comment
Yesterday I called my friend Andy Beard and a large sway of the blogosphere “Link Whores”! Well you are! We all are. I’ve confessed that I am one on more than one occasion. Being a “Link Whore” is a fundamental part of the blogger/podcaster/vlogger psyche. If you aren’t one, if you don’t want more people to [...]
You scratch my back, I'll scratch yours! No Thanks!
April 4, 2007 By 11 Comments
I read every post Andy Beard writes. I don’t care if a particular post has a mundane title, he’s put out so much quality stuff that he always warrants me spending more time reading his posts in Google Reader than I allot for 90% of the blog I read. As you guys know I recently [...]
Does Twitter have built in Trust?
March 22, 2007 By 8 Comments
Andy thinks that Twitter is unethical for business use and therefore made his last business related Twitter post last night! AndyBeard I can’t find a way to use Twitter to comply with WOMMA so last business related update from me – full details here – http://tinyurl.com/29yr … Andy cites the following reasons: Twitter is thus being [...]
Link Roll Up 21/03/2007
March 21, 2007 By Leave a Comment
I’ve been filling the link blog all morning with the best posts from all the feeds I follow. It’s starting to look like today won’t be a good day for me blogging, so I’m highlighting a couple of cool things here that may have warranted a post in response or are just damn cool, but I [...]
Comment Notifications
February 28, 2007 By 1 Comment
I might be almost a week late but I’ve upgraded O’Flaherty to the latest super shiny version of WordPress (2.1.1). Even better that that, I’ve now added in the ability for you guys to get email notification of comments left on post that you have commented on. So now, whenever you tell me that I’m [...]
Akismet/Collective Intelligence/Education through Design
Andy Beard wrote an article a while back about the potential problems of using so called “collective intelligence” to power spam and comment filters on email systems and blogs. Andy’s article, Akismet – the Danger of Collective Intelligence (and why I don’t use it), focused mainly on Akismet, the comment filter which I use on [...]