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This is sadly, ultra-cool in my opinion. These days there is so much emphasis placed on website usability and look and feel that it’s refreshing and nice to see somebody take it all back to brass tacks. Mark Woodman. Truly inspired IMHO. via: Tom Raftery

DRM in a nutshell

Interesting summation of what DRM actually means as opposed to the techie description of what it actually is. Handy if you should ever find yourself at a party and in dire need of plain English to describe the problem to people who may just not be interested. 🙂 source: WIRED Blogs: Listening Post

Gmail your life

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If like me you think that Gmail is most definitely the greatest web-based e-mail system you have ever used and even though your better judgement warns you against ticking the Google search boxes that allow searching of your e-mail through Google Desktop, you know you just want to anyway. Here’s a link to somebody else… Read More »Gmail your life

Am I a link whore?

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I’ve been blogging now since about January 2002, sadly my Greymatter archives for all bar March 2002 were lost between site updates. Technically speaking if you count my misadventures with procmail recipes and perl scripts then I’ve been “blogging” since early 2001. Up until recently I wrote stuff mostly for my own amusement, to keep… Read More »Am I a link whore?

Welcome back Karlin

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This morning I opened my RSS reader much like any other day. Then trawling through the day’s updates I spotted this post from Bernie. Our techie ambassador from the Irish Times, Karlin Lillington, has returned after a very long absense from the blogosphere (March 6th 2006 according to my RSS reader). Looking forward to new… Read More »Welcome back Karlin

What’s in a name?

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Just reading Bernie’s RSS feed, as I do every day (he’s worth subscribing to), and noticed this posting on the use of pseudonyms and proposed legislation with respect to internet identities. It makes for shocking reading that it might be illegal to set up an e-mail account with inaccurate information about yourself. Let’s hope that… Read More »What’s in a name?

How Google can combat global warming

Now here’s a quirky idea that you don’t hear about every day. Somebody has gone off and done the math of exactly how much energy would be saved if Google’s homepage had a black background instead of white. Makes sense I guess. source: the thinking blog

Make your own site badge

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Make a badge for your site’s RSS feed, give one to your friends, share them around. The world needs more badges! Here is a really quick example of what you can do with a little JavaScript and Yahoo! Pipes, I can feel the PHP draining from me. I don’t like that you have to put… Read More »Make your own site badge