Posted in Internet on Sep 13th, 2010 2 Comments »
A five-minute podcast from Eric Lee, founder of Labourstart.
The podcast is available at Radio Labourstart.
The alternatives that Eric talks about are:
Buddypress.org
Drupal.org
Ning.com
elgg.org
unionbook.org
Posted in Israel, Internet on Jun 12th, 2010 No Comments »
[The Book Depository’s real time viewer, the gift that just keeps on giving.]
Posted in Internet, blogging on Apr 6th, 2010 8 Comments »
In response to speculations that North Korea has executed its Minister of Economy because a failed monetary reform. This news was issued by YONHAP (South Korea) and soon reproduced systematically by many media of other countries, among them the most important Spanish newspapers. In order to begin, YONHAP mentions as origin of the news: ‘ […]
Posted in Bastards, Banks, Internet on Mar 26th, 2010 1 Comment »
One of the consequences of being lazy and/or distracted by the mendacities of modern living is that you miss stuff on the internet that would normally interest you greatly. This may appear contrary to what many think the internet does: that is, it engenders laziness and through its cumulative mendacity distracts you from doing something […]
Posted in Internet on Sep 2nd, 2008 1 Comment »
Google have just released their new browser, Google Chrome (available to download here). I’ve been using Firefox for the past four years, and apart from the odd stubborn Microsoft site it’s been fine - that is, until they released Firefox 3.0, which has a nasty habit of freezing and crashing all the time. So much […]
Posted in US Election, US Politics, Internet, Media on Jul 27th, 2008 3 Comments »
Usually I don’t bother my arse reading Nick Cohen, but the freaky picture above on today’s Guardian website caught my attention and so like the dummy I am, I clicked on the link. Inside, Cohen is berating the liberal left for a fuckload of crimes, including the inability to laugh at Barack Obama.
If you search […]
Posted in Economy, Internet, music on Jul 4th, 2008 3 Comments »
Oh Brilliant. First the economy goes into something that is not, but is almost like ‘meltdown’ and then Google are forced to hand over the IP addresses of all those people who link and embed YouTube videos to Viacom, so they can prove that they’re getting ripped off.
Here, following on from Conor’s post and […]
Posted in Internet, Media on Dec 13th, 2007 2 Comments »
Thanks to Juan from my Spanish class for this one.
Posted in Internet, blogging, Ireland on Nov 18th, 2007 6 Comments »
A couple of weekends back we started off changing the style of Dublin Opinion and ended up crashing the entire site. It took Donagh the best part of a day to get it working again. During that time, we both sat and looked at a year’s work vanish before our very eyes, with occasional flashes […]
Posted in TV, Internet on Nov 17th, 2007 No Comments »
Or… trying to save the world without a mobile or broadband. Taken from YouTube, via www.collegehumour.com
