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First off I better explain what a WISP , it means Wireless Internet Service Provider. For this sorry tale the WISP in question is OceanTelecom who operate in West Waterford/East Cork. I got a call the other day from my friend’s wife who was having problems receiving mail from her eircom.net account when using POP [...]

I’ve been obsessively poring over my log files again. I always find it interesting to see what combinations of operating systems and web browsers visitors to my sites are using. I’ve recently resurrected Sawmill to analyse reports from my reverse proxy which gives me a nice overview of all visitors to all my hosted sites. [...]

I feel so ashamed. I’ve just been extremely bad. Someone in Brazil changed their theme on blogspot and very nice it is too I have to say. His design is excellent but for one thing. He is hotlinking to an image on my server. I’m getting hundred of hits for it so I figured I [...]

Two short videos. Make sure to watch them in order! Number 1: And number two:

For the past few months I have been planning on setting up a new business. Now this takes some planning as you might imagine and having being self employed before for four years before, it takes an additional leap of faith to decide whether I actually want to execute my business plan. Being self employed is [...]

Now that things have finally settled down I can finally get around to getting a lot of the things I had planned for my summer holidays done. First up was to try to aggregate all my online presences from Twitter, Flickr Last.FM etc. I was considering using FriendFeed but since I’ve recently been extolling the [...]

After months of resisting and pretending it didn’t exist I finally signed up for Twitter. All the fears that I had before that discouraged me from signing up before have been realised. I’m flaming addicted to it. At the moment it is probably the novelty factor but that novelty factor has led me to install [...]

Just checking my logs – Hmm “not a single visitor since 10pm last night?” Strange. “I know my DNS server was down for maintenence but I definitely recreated my DNS Zone.” Quick check, “Bugger! I forgot to add an entry for blog.sweetnam.eu!” Oh well, I’m back now.