I stopped posting links here a while ago – I had been pulling them straight from Delicious, but I just ended up with lots of lists that were cluttering up the blog and were of no real use to anyone. So these have some reasons attached (apart from them being of interest), First off, The [...]
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Poverty, Ireland, and the Web – Blog Action Day 2008
October 15, 2008 – 9:39 am
Today is Blog Action Day ’08, which has the theme of Poverty. The idea behind Blog Action Day is that people give their time, support or blog over to the worthwhile theme of Poverty. Because it’s worthwhile, I spent a bit of time learning about something I knew very little about: Poverty in Ireland. In [...]
Support Autism with O2
October 7, 2008 – 10:50 am
Having seen the roasting O2 have received on some blogs recently, it’s good to be able to write something positive about them. They are running an initiative with Irish Autism Action to donate 5% of your monthly spend to Autism services in your community. O2 customers can participate by texting the word AUTISM to 50308 [...]
Chrome Service Shackles?
September 3, 2008 – 11:46 am
Update: 4th Sept – The Register is now reporting that the Chrome licensing agreement has been changed. Section 11 now reads: 11.1 You retain copyright and any other rights that you already hold in Content that you submit, post or display on or through the Services. Sorted. Now…carry on. ________________ I’ve just been playing about [...]
Missing the Olympics by .2 of a Second
August 8, 2008 – 3:16 pm
Image by fdecomite via Flickr The opening of the Olympics looks great, but it’s got to be tough for some. I just read a blog post by Brian who now runs Atrier Web Design Cork (and who used to be across the corridor from my office during my time at UCC) missing a chance to [...]
Microsoft Announcement on Interoperability
February 21, 2008 – 8:13 pm
Microsoft announced today that it was making: a set of broad-reaching changes to its technology and business practices to increase the openness of its products and drive greater interoperability, opportunity and choice for developers, partners, customers and competitors. The initiative is based on the principles of providing Open Connections to Microsoft’s “High Volume” products, Support [...]
links for 2008-02-21
February 21, 2008 – 8:40 am
A Legal Issues Primer for Open Source and Free Software Projects – Software Freedom Law Center Legal issues are from a US perspective, but still useful (tags: opensource legal)
links for 2008-02-20
February 20, 2008 – 8:27 am
Top-10 Application-Design Mistakes (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox) (tags: webdesign usability)
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