Dave’s Rants

Bernie has a post today about reaching 50k views on Flickr. Well done Bernie that’s some page views! I have 20k myself which I’m quite proud of.
What’s blown me away completely though is the popularity of YouTube. I’ve had an an account for a little over a month at this stage and I’ve now had […]

I saw this post on ‘How Much Do You Google’ so I decided to check how much I used it myself. The answer… 5422 times!
So some interesting results. For some reason my searching has decreased recently. February 2006 -> April 2006 has been below average. It also appears I use Google far more when I’m […]

Back in January James mentioned that it’d be great if we got flat rate charges for GPRS usage. I agreed totally. I rarely use the browser on my phone specifically because I’ll be screwed for using it. Of course this means that the network makes absolutely nothing from me, whereas with flat rates for data […]

I first heard about reBlog a few weeks ago but my first attempts at getting it up and running on my webserver were unsuccessful. I did manage to get it running last week and I’ve been using it for a week, in short — it rocks!
Previously, I’d end up with a huge backlog of RSS […]

Sky HD launches on May 22nd in Ireland. We’ve got our install date set for May 22nd! Having seen some HD broadcasts already, and seen 720p/1080i film trailers from the XBox 360 I can’t wait!
So all going well we’ll have HD in time for the World Cup. Which is a most excellent development.

So I finally cracked and ordered a MacBook Pro, I had been planning on waiting for the next revision but the release of boot camp and the fact that some bugs have been fixed made my decision easier. My current laptop is suffering severely from overuse but there’s some life left in it yet. I […]

I’ve just remembered that April 1st marks 2 years of Gmail. I got my account pretty early on thanks to the fine folks over at Metafilter, but of course Gmail is still in `beta’ which is just insane! Last year we got a present of an extra Gigabyte of storage which was great! I wonder […]

I make a habit of collecting loads of videos to watch in the various tabs in my browser but I seem to make a habit of also not watching them and leaving them all accumulate so I decided to get through them this evening! So in no particular order.
Irish Blog Awards 2006
So the Irish Blog […]

For a while now I’ve been fascinated by the SitePoint Marketplace. Basically it’s a forum where people buy and sell entire websites. Some of the sites have a userbase, some of them have just been created by people and are brand new. The prices seem to vary from 2 figures to 5 figures! It’s well […]

Neo-conservatism
Kevin disects the Independent’s article yesterday on how they were right and others were wrong. I agree 100% with the critism of the article expressed there. Also worth noting is how they have Andrew Sullivan marked as one of the critics who’s changed his mind, which is correct but he had changed his mind about […]