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The latest iPhone firmware upgrade has been released today. At long last it has copy and paste as well as a few other much needed bits and pieces. Can now send and receive MMS messages Can now forward SMS and MMS messages! Spotlight search feature Landscape typing for Apple Apps Can now stream video and [...]

I’m quite happy with running WordPress on this blog, performance is superb especially with Donncha’s Super Cache plugin. (see the difference that can make here) However recently I have been asked as a favour to host a few sites for friends and acquaintances. In fact I’m already hosting Frob’s site for him and the site [...]

With the recent demise of my only Windows PC I have been using my Macbook in its place. All that is well and good except that one of my classes in college is ‘Business Applications’ which should really be renamed ‘Microsoft Office 2007  and nothing else’ Naturally like any other class I have a few [...]

Well, I was 99.9% legal beforehand. (at a rough guess.) So being a student has it’s advantages! Microsoft’s Dreamspark campaign is a  scheme for students to download Microsoft software completely free of charge provided you meet the criteria. And I have to say fair play to Microsoft, they really mean it. I now have Visual [...]

Over the weekend I was in conversation via e-mail with The Other Fellow. Over the course of our correspondence I mentioned my setup here at home. Later on that evening I began to realise just how ludicrous my setup has become. I have four different networks, three wireless access points, and an unearthly amount of [...]

I think I have finally had enough of the festive cheer. Combined with the fact I still have almost three weeks holidays left I think I have gone a bit mad. I was clearing out my computer room and came across an old PC that served me well in the past. It was a faithful [...]

Just tried to get on to the RTE News website and was greeted with this lovely error message. It looks like they use Squid as a reverse proxy/load balancer like myself. Well it seems that at the moment their backend servers have fallen off the face of the planet!

Grand Theft Auto IV is almost ready for the PC. I’ve been waiting so long for it. I’ve even gone so far as to pre-order it. It’s the only game I have been looking forward since San Andreas was released four years ago. Sadly I’ve had to cancel my order. Unfortunately Rockstar have decided to [...]