Even for people like myself who have been involved in the IT industry in one form or another for 30 years, it can be difficult to comprehend that it was a mere 20 years ago that Tim Berners-Lee presented a document to his boss entitled “Information management: A proposal”. Four years later I was in [...]
The folks over at Blacknight rock! They really do. They may roll a bit too, but I’m not sure about that. Late last year I was becoming increasingly frustrated with my hosting provider. I had been happy before then. More than happy. They were even hosting this blog for free! I know that wasn’t a [...]
The local primary school have been teaching the senior kids how to make websites. It’s good to see the ICT in Schools programme being put to some practical use. The wee village may even produce some more techies because of it. Maybe a blogger or ten. As a past pupil and the local web-head I’ve [...]
“Application forms for Jobseekers Benefit and Jobseekers Allowance are available for the first time to download from the Department of Social and Family Affairs website” reads the press release from Minister Mary Hanafin*. Apparently this “was part of a series of service improvement measures being brought in to help speed up the process”. Note the [...]
There are hundreds of them – for playing football, making movies, writing books, long distance spitting, even being a politician. You name it and there is an award for it. A real money spinner if there ever was one. Way back some professional event organiser thought to himself “hey, no one’s ever ran an award [...]
I had to hand off a prototype of a site to a client this morning. She has somewhat of a niche business – she offers courses in wedding etiquette for brides, grooms and indeed the whole wedding party if desired. You know the kind of thing. How to throw the bouquet with landing on your [...]
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