Monthly Archives: January 2007

A New Provider: New Problems

Monday, 29th January, 2007 – 10:58

I had an engineer out this morning to install my new broadband connection. Before he even started, he’d hit a problem - there’s no line of sight from my house to their high-site. There is a line of sight from the house next door, but because of a bloody tree, I’m out of luck.

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End of The Holidays

Monday, 29th January, 2007 – 00:49

I’m officially finished my holidays today. So out of my list of things to do, I managed to complete just one of them - I did manage to make it home for my brothers going away party. Jim flies off to Australia on Wednesday for at least a year. So best of luck to him, [...]

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WordPress Plugins

Monday, 29th January, 2007 – 00:43

I’ve spent the last few days searching various resources looking for interesting plugins for my blog. I think I’ve finally settled on the plugins that I want.For those of you interested in such matters, here are my plugins:

Akismet
Autometa
Category Cloud
Category Tagging
DoFollow
FireStats
Google Sitemap Generator
Joe’s Quote Widget
runPHP
Sidebar Widgets
Subscribe to Comments
WordPress Tiger Administration
Ultimate Tag Warrior
WordPress Database Backup
WordPress Polls

So there [...]

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Akismet WordPress Plugin Version 2.0 Now Available.

Thursday, 25th January, 2007 – 02:24

The Akismet plugin has been updated to version 2.0 and now includes even more features. As a spam catcher, this is one plugin that every blogger should have. And best of all, it’s free for non-commercial use.

Go get it.

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Laptop LCD Failure

Thursday, 25th January, 2007 – 01:38

I’m currently writing this post on a Dell Inspiron 1300 that I bought a couple of months ago from the Dell Outlet Site. It’s not a top of the range laptop, but for doing websites, browsing the web, and general use, it suits me down to the ground.

Up until last night, I haven’t had a [...]

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Irish as a European Language

Thursday, 25th January, 2007 – 01:18

Irish is now an official language of the European Union, which means that all official documents, laws, regulations etc. have to be written in Irish along with the other 22 official European languages. This is for a a language that is spoken on a daily basis by approximately 300,000 people out of an EU population [...]

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