Archive for the 'Blog' Category

What Do You Consider Spam?

Monday, August 18th, 2008

I’ve written before about spam, especially about how I consider it to be a crime on a par with child abuse. But what what do you consider spam? Emails hawking cheap pharmaceuticals and penny stocks are obviously spam. What about a company that leaves a comment on your blog that is might be relevant to [...]

Blue Collar Scientist

Tuesday, August 12th, 2008

I recently added the feed from BCS to me feed reader and was just getting into his blog, when the news broke that the author Jeff Medkeff was seriously ill with cancer of the liver. He died on August 3rd 2008.

Here’s one of his best posts, read it and see what BCS was all about:

A [...]

Weird Bug - WordPress or Firefox to Blame?

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

I came across a weird bug when I was writing the previous post.

I use a Mac, (as if you didn’t know at this stage!), and on a Mac there’s a button in the top right hand corner of the application window that allows you to hide the Firefox toolbars. This is it:

I was in the [...]

Wordle Gallery

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

So I’m bored with nothing better to do than make up Wordles of popular Irish Blogs.

Starting with my one:

More below the fold.

Blogging and Privacy Statements

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

Following on from my post about whether “Do Bloggers Need Privacy Statements”, I received the following response from the DPC. By the way, the delay in posting this is down to the real world intervening and not due to the DPC. In order to make it easier to follow, I have posted my original question, [...]