I’m one of the millions of Google Reader user who’ve switched to Feedly, but…..

…. are they here for the long haul? There’s loads of small scale free services that are run as a hobby by guys that fund it out of their own pockets. A guy I know works for an ISP and they allow him to run his side-project on a server in their data centre for [...]

Posted at 10pm on 5/16/13 | no comments; | Filed Under: Internet, Software, Technology | read on

How not to use Twitter, Go Daddy style

Go Daddy got DDOSed yesterday and were out of action for approx. 4 hours. These days the first point of call is their Twitter feed (@godaddy). You expect some information about the outage, and you hope for updates as things evolve. Go Daddy’s feed was useless, because relavent updates were lost in a sea of near-identical replies [...]

Posted at 12pm on 9/11/12 | no comments; | Filed Under: Internet, Technology | read on

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I’m a 30 something Irish guy that works in the IT business. Inside the trade I’m interested in Linux, Internet technologies and mobile hardware and services. Outside, I enjoy a good book, a nice beer and decent game of rugby……

P.S. This is a personal blog, and while I do have a professional involvement in a lot of the technical topics I mention in some of my posts, they do not reflect company policy or ethos.

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