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The LAMA Awards. The what?

January 24, 2008 – 7:21 am

A mail burst into my inbox on Tuesday bubbling over excitedly with the news that the County Kildare Community Network website, kildare.ie, run by Kildare County Council, won a LAMA award for “Best Use of External Communications”. You can read it here. Ah, don’t bother - I’ll give you the main points.
LAMA = Local Authority [...]

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Leave me alone! I’m a big ape now.

October 18, 2007 – 8:45 am

We had the great eircom share sell off not so long ago. What I remember most was the incessant propaganda from every angle all but telling us how stupid we would be if we didn’t buy. Leinster House told us how we would become stakeholders in the state’s greatest corporation. (Well they wanted to offload [...]

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Upgraded Site

September 29, 2007 – 7:36 am

I upgraded to WordPress 2.3 this morning. What else would you be doing at 5am on a Saturday anyway?
They call the release Dexter after some tenor saxophonist I never heard of. Bet he was loud though. But that’s neither here nor there. What is important is that the site is working both for you as [...]

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Snippets #10

August 19, 2007 – 1:07 am

Here I go again, quoting Annie who wrote: If you’re still using Internet Explorer please do the world wide web a favour and download Firefox instead. It’s free and it will get you laid.

Well, lads, lets me tell yez, if Firefox’ll get you laid, then the latest release of Thunderbird will get you laid by [...]

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Under mouse arrest

August 13, 2007 – 5:18 am

No. Still no news. Not a stir despite Kathy trying to hurry things along by trying a variety of tricks from old wives tales. And some from new wives tales too, which are a heck of a lot more fun I’m told.
My being confined to barracks the long weekend and the one just gone hasn’t [...]

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Who is my ISP?

June 23, 2007 – 8:42 am

A few months ago I was having a few problems with my Internet connection and popped off a text to Andrew who runs the service. Normally, I’d get a text or call back immediately to let me know what the issue was, what was being done and when it he reckoned it would be fixed. [...]

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