Something that looks too good to be true usually is. Smart Broadband looked good, 3Mb for €35 plus I can make calls, excellent thought I. But now the phones are down, I can make calls but not receive them and I wonder how long before the company folds altogether and we lose the Broadband. I [...]

I just switched to Smart recently and discovered that I can no longer send emails (using my own email account thro. Thunderbird). I checked the Smart website and found that I need to switch my outgoing mail server to smtp.mysmart.ie. I did so and tested it but no-go. So I called Smart who said “change [...]

I’m redesigning my website (not the blog) and am going to do something I don’t normally do, get someone else’s opinion on it before I finish it. Would anyone with 2 minutes to spare consider taking a peek and giving their honest opinion? Be brutal. (content styles haven’t been looked at yet, just the header/footer/side [...]

Can this be true? A Spanish intellectual property law has finally banned unauthorized peer-to-peer file-sharing in Spain, making it a civil offense even to download content for personal use. My initial reaction is “you stupid fucking idiots, you’ve been spending too much time in the sun!!”, however i’ll give them the benefit of the doubt [...]

I was pricking around with Skype and I noticed this feature called the “Skypecast” which is a hosted call where you can have up to 100 people participating. I started to wonder … would it be interesting if we managed to get 100 Irish bloggers together for a chin wag? Come to think of it, [...]

This is from today’s Crossword of the Day which appears on Google’s personalised homepage… Anyone else offended by that? p.s. crossword is by Puzzlerscave not Google. Edit: direct link to crossword Update: I decided to submit a complaint to Puzzlerscave. I just received a response … basically a fob off: “Please report your complaint to [...]

Why am I getting Russian ads displayed in my sidebar such as the one on the left there? The website is Finnish … the ad displayed presumably because my ISP is Finnish. Mmkay, makes sense. But why isn’t the ad text displayed in Finnish or English then, especially when the website itself defaults to English [...]

I’ve decided to give Linux a lash. I’m a Windows guy, I like point and click, nice and simple, no messing around with command lines or anything. I’ve been following the case of Linspire recently because it looks like one of the best Linux options for Windows users and although it’s not free it is [...]

I was pricking around with Excel trying to make some reports so I could more easily monitor my Adsense stats. I made the following template and thought that I may as well share it. It’s very basic (averages and totals each of the columns, draws a few basic graphs ) but it might save you [...]

After speaking with Division HQ we’ve decided to to implement Operation Stop Spam in an effort to cut down on the amount of comment spam we get per day. From now on there’ll be a very simple match question to answer, unless we find some better way to stop the spammers. Any problems posting please [...]