Dave’s Rants

About a year and a half ago I launched Irish Rugby Now which ran for about 18 months as a blog about Irish Rugby, mainly I just aggregated content from the sites around the web which was very time consuming but on the upside the ads made me a good bit of cash. So […]

The last time I blogged about Television it was about ‘Lost’. I found out about ‘Lost’ through Boards.ie and again this is how I heard about ‘Veronica Mars’ also. For about the past 4 months or so I’ve seen various people mention they were watching ‘Veronica Mars’ or what not. When I first heard about […]

Web Developer Rip-Off
The creator of the Firefox Web Dev toolbar points out the story of a company ripping off his code, seems like the Community may have won on this one.
(tags: web developer code gpl firefox community)

Eddie Hobbs - LIAR ?
(tags: irishblogs eddiehobbs blogging consumer affairs)

The $10,000 Question - New York Times
Another follow on to […]

So I was navel gazing on the Irish Blogs Top 100 thing and scrolled down to see what blogs I could find that I had never read before and I found this blog of an Irish Times technology journalist. It caught my attention because he was taking a swipe a jmcc over his posting on […]

I used to like the man but I think that ‘Rip Off Republic’ is a biased piece of sensational TV but I don’t want to blog about that. What I do want to blog about is what Sarah had to say about Eddie Hobbs and his lies.
On the first show he did a piece on […]

Well it’s easy but I made it extremely difficult for myself. Google wrote a handly little guide to it which I followed but I made the mistake of thinking the server was talk.gmail.com when it was talk.google.com, I went through the settings 100 times before I realised thanks to this post on TUAW that I […]

Last December I finally gave up on my old email addresses and started to forward all my mail to Gmail, well I actually run them through Spam Assassin first on my server and then to Gmail but you get the picture.
So the only downside to this is that mail I sent was shown as coming […]

HOW TO make a Powerbook in to a Wi-Fi access point!
When I read articles like this it makes me wish I was in the US, he gets DSL speeds for $80 per month, I paid €7 for a couple of megs of transfers last month here.
(tags: data gprs evdo powerbook make howto diy wifi cool)

Well I’ve always held the opinion that RTÉ is biased in two ways. Firstly news related to Dublin gets top billing ahead of the rest of the country regardless of the magnitude of the story*. The other bias is toward the miserable element of the country. By that I mean the people who refuse to […]

Going against the way things like this normally go in this country the Foo/Barcamp clone that was mooted earlier in the week appears to be likely to happen. I received an email from Ed Byrne this evening pointing out that a Wiki had been created for the event.
The basic idea is a get together for […]