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Do you use Linux at work or at home? If so then why not help to provide some statistics and show how many Linux users there are out there? This site counts the number of registered Linux machines and their respective configurations to obtain some kind of profile about the owners. Worth a few minutes… Read More »Get Counted!

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Support the campaign to get people writing proper HTML and eliminate the browser specific websites out there. No more works with IE only please Viewable with Any Browser: Campaign

Moving

Well it must be the season for it, I’m just about to move house and we’ve just moved server for our web host. The change gave me the opportunity to install the latest MovableType package the way I wanted it done and also to experiment with the superb export and import functionality of the system.… Read More »Moving

Acrobat goes XML

Looks like Adobe have eventually made Acrobat XML aware even though people have been creating PDF documents with the xml-fo objects and XSL for years now… The Register

Kevin Myers’ View

All those who are dedicated followers of politics on RTE or who are regular readers of the Irish Times will be familiar with the name of Kevin Myers. A rather enthusiastic journalist with often strongly opinionated views and humorous angles, is sometimes a breath of fresh air in an otherwise musty cupboard of current affairs.… Read More »Kevin Myers’ View

Rebuilding Iraq

Just when you thought that things couldn’t get any worse. The Register posted this today about not only a regime change in Iraq but also a mobile network change. “CDMA cell phones include an integrated global positioning system (GPS) feature that allows the precision location of callers in times of emergency.” but the reasoning is… Read More »Rebuilding Iraq

Iraq – an inside view

Just picked this up from Rob’s Rants. It’s an article by a great journalist, Robert Fisk, who is always at the forefront of conflicts. The article although brief is very lucid and the imagery so realistic that even though no fighting is ever mentioned, the inevitability and build up is all too conclusive as to… Read More »Iraq – an inside view

Ha!

I don’t know; I was going to post this under humour instead of general, I was really torn for a moment there. Anyway this report is about a Microsoft ad in South Africa being banned by the advertising authority for falsely claiming that hackers would soon be extinct due to Microsoft software security, etc. Laughable… Read More »Ha!

Website Visualisation

Quirky little Java applet to visualise the linkage of a website. Not sure how useful it is but none-the-less it paints interesting pictures TouchGraph GoogleBrowser V1.01