Not long ago, I blogged about the merits of Thesis Theme for WordPress. I praised it for its configurability, ease of use, and search engine friendliness. At $164 for the Developer option (which I bought), it didn’t come cheap, and updates and additional features for it have been coming thick and fast. However, nothing could have prepared me for the shit storm that has been brewing for a while, and has finally unleashed itself on the WordPress community. As it turns out, the developer of Thesis, Chris Pearson, has been building a business on the back of a GPL licensed piece of software, but the theme he profits from (Thesis) isn’t released under the same GPL licence – something which is not made super apparent on the Diythemes website. Hey, if WordPress is GPL, why expect anything built on it to be anything different?
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If you’re an F1 fan, most likely you had your heart in your mouth during Sundays European Grand Prix at Valencia. Mark Webber had a spectacular coming together with Finnish driver Heikki Kovalainen who drives for the Lotus F1 team. Mark’s Red Bull F1 car had just come in for a pit stop, and was trying to pass Kovalainen for track position. Even though the Lotus was several seconds a lap slower than the Red Bull, Heikki was determined to protect his position, and the following crash ensued!
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by Hugh on June 22, 2010
I think i’ve gone deaf. After spending 45 minutes of a Tube journey – all the way from Covent Garden to Heathrow – listening to slurps, squelches, and flubbers in your left ear, wouldn’t you too? And the source of these wonderful sounds? A young couple (Daniel was the guys name, I looked at the tag on his oversized luggage), and his young, needy, and clearly very horny girlfriend. As I sat right beside them for most of my journey to the airport I was treated, or punished if you’d like to look at it in a realistic way, to what amounted to a ravenous display of soft-core, David Attenborough style porn. Well, me and around 50 other passengers, all of whom had the same look of disgust in their faces, all trying to concentrate on their Danielle Steel novels instead of the real-life version going on within eye and earshot. Oh, all of this happened at around 9am on a Tuesday morning. To hell with a glass of Tropicana and a bit of muesli, these two get their day kick started with a full on public romp.
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Doesn’t everyone know how to take screenshots on Mac OS X? For lifetime Apple Fanboys (and girls) such mundane tasks are par for the course – so please bear with me and read on if this is old news to you. I’m a recent Apple convert. Up until January 2010, my only interactions with Apple were on a Macintosh back in secondary school (1997), and my iPhone. Coming from the wonderfully crashy world of Windows Vista was a baptism of fire, but where the hell was the ‘Print Screen’ button? How the hell could I take a bloomin screenshot on this new fangled thing? Here’s how.
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Someone I haven’t seen in a while – even before my move to London – is Conor Lynch, the founder of online / offline social networking business Connector.ie. Which makes me feel extra bad, considering he seems to be turning into one of the most active networkers in Ireland! I first met Conor in 2005 (I think), at the IIA Net Visionary awards. We had planned to meet up for a pint at the awards after some emailing back and forth, but the ‘pint’ at the awards turned into many more after Conor promptly won an award for ‘Internet Marketer of the Year’. At the time he was heading up the online marketing department for Rabodirect, Ireland’s first online bank.
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Blacknight Solutions are a domain registration / website hosting company based in Carlow. They’ve grown quite fast over the past couple of years, and according to Webshosting.info, have a massive percentage share of the Irish market when it comes to domain registrations. And it’s easy to see why. Their newest sales tool – dropped.ie – is a great way to search for and stumble across ‘second hand’ .ie domain names. As someone who used to spend hours trawling the deleted domains list on the IEDR website to find little domain name gems, sites like dropped.ie are a godsend.
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It’s 2.43am and i’m back in my rented gaff in Dalkey, Dublin, Ireland after my first Friday night out following my first two weeks living in London. To be honest i’m gagging to get back to the UK asap to get back to what is now becoming a taste of reality after a big dose of Celtic Tiger horseshit. We, as Irish, have been living the high life over the last ten to fifteen years, totally taking for granted our financial offerings from the EEC (now the EU of course), and the help so many states have given us since our formation as a nation in 1922 (1937 if you want to be pedantic about it), and we desperately needed a kick in the hole. Now we’ve had it.
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Sometimes it’s good to step back and appreciate what you do for a living. When I was younger I used to spend my days playing with my computer, and luckily I managed to find a career doing something that I love.
But then again, so did Bill Gates. Check out this cheesy pic!
Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock the last week or so, you’ll have found it very hard to avoid the publishing of the Child Abuse Commission Report, and the public outcry that ensued. The report merely confirmed what anyone with half a brain already knew – that schools and orphanages run by religious orders in Ireland were rampant with child abuse in several ways, be it rape, physical abuse, or emotional torment for the children involved. However, the report did not name names, nor did it initially look like this would happen. On top of this, the maximum amount the religioius orders could be held liable for compensation for was around €128 million – a figure agreed almost ten years ago. Amazingly enough, even today the religious orders have not paid that full amount to victims of their child abuse.
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by Hugh on March 31, 2009
The Fallon brothers don’t surprise me anymore. They’ve just announced an absolute stormer of a deal with the giant that is eBay, to power eBay.ie’s property search section. Not only is this a coup for Daft.ie which will firmly leave the likes of MyHome.ie trailing even further behind, it is a great symbol of just how well known a brand Daft.ie is in Ireland, and the power they have in the property market.
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