Dave’s Rants

Just wanted to apologise for the interruption recently. I managed to get laid low with a cold/flu thing which is rare enough for me (last time I was sick was 4 years ago), then things got quite busy at work and also a friend from Sweden was over visiting so blogging slipped well down the […]

Honestly I tried to refrain from begging for votes but I’ve cracked. Tomorrow voting for the Irish Blog Awards closes. I’ve got an incentive for you to vote for me though! Damien, the PR Genius he is has manged to blag some prizes for voters of O2. So go to the voting page, vote […]

I see Richard Delevan picked up on the blogger getting sued for Comments story and mentions that he has deleted comments from his site. Well I’ve just had to close the comments on my Eddie Hobbs post because bascally some of the people who decided to argue against me had the inability to make a […]

Found it pretty weird when Ireland.com showed up in my referrer log, but it appears that the Irish Times have chosen to link to me for some reason. Cheers guys.

Ages back, probably last March or so I registered for Digg.com. I thought it was pretty cool at the time but for one reason or another I didn’t ever get into it. Now fast-forward to now, I’m currently through 2 weeks out of 4 where I’m at home with practically nothing to do so I’ve […]

When I ran my site on Movable Type I used to get comment spam like others and it was annoying but I managed to avoid a lot of it because I ran my Movable Type installation off a separate sub-domain to davesrants.com to attempt to fool the spam bots. They would just look for the […]

For years and years I created loads of data and didn’t really protect it much at all, I did the occasional backup but nothing worth talking about. Fortunately I never lost anything unrecoverable, but last December one of my HDDs got trashed and I lost a whole load of MP3s. Since then I’ve started to […]

Tom emailed me yesterday to let me know about all the trouble he was having finding my RSS feed link. The actual link was/is tucked all the way down at the bottom of the page. I never even noticed that it was so difficult to find because of the way I subscribe to RSS feeds. […]

I’m now using WP Tiger Administration. I saw this linked to on Matt’s site today and I’m delighted I tried it out, it looks great! Of course only time will tell if it’s actually better. It definitely looks nicer but I’ll have to wait and see if I find it more useful.
It’s closer to the […]

I’ve managed to get the Flickr Gallery plugin up and running so now you can view all my Flickr galleries integrated on this site. To view the full list of albums click on the photos link on the navigation bar above. Then you can go and view specific sets of photos. If you click on […]