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Guest post by Chris Neale, originally posted at : http://chrs.nl/w/8k7fm 30th January 2010

The Idea

Last Saturday, I woke up with a seemingly brilliant idea, a dot-st domain name for use by my online postage half-site Print My Postage. mypo.st was subsequently registered. However, this isn’t about that; I was on skype telling Brian (King) about this [...]

7 Things You May (Or May Not) Know About Me

Rey, Fred and William got me, so here it goes!

The rules:

Link to your original tagger(s) and list these rules in your post.
Share seven facts about yourself in the post.
Tag seven people at the end of your post by leaving their names and the links to their blogs.
Let them know they’ve been tagged.

Seven things:

My full name [...]

Need Help Marketing Open Source?

Let’s face it, Open Source has always had an image problem.

While technologies are more prominent than ever, still today the benefits are still largely misunderstood by a large section of the business community. So if you need help in marketing your OSS project, or know someone who does, I’d recommend Sandro Groganz who is [...]

Warts ‘N All Magic

The blogosphere is alive with mumblings about Steve Yegge‘s rants. I haven’t read them all, but the one I have are, though lengthy, well worth a read. I point you in particular to this one:

Blogger’s Block #3: Dreaming in Browser Swamp

Some real gems in there:

It turns out if you dig deep into Mozilla (aka [...]

Subscribe via Email to Pogovor

I’ve been set up with Feedburner as my main feed provider for a while now. They’ve added a nifty and (not so) new feature, to subscibe to blogs via email. If you still enjoy the email lark and your mail is not clogged up too much already, then sign up and you’ll receive my posts [...]

Had Enough of Web 2.0?

Well if you do, you are not the only one! Check out Jeffrey Zeldman’s article – Web 3.0. Or for another amusing take on it, check out the wankr beta. Not quite my take on it, but an interesting one nonetheless.

Hype comes and goes. Bubbles fill up and burst. In the end, the cream of [...]

Some Changes Around Here

You may or may not have noticed some changes to this blog over the last few days. Here are a few details of what has been happening.

I’ve upgraded to WordPress 2.0. There are been many scare stories out and about of it being buggy and not ready for release yet, but I took the plunge [...]

Faces to Blogs

Are people really like their alter ego in their blogs? Well, mostly. I was in Ljubljana on Friday night at the si.blogs get together. Thanks to David, Cookie, and Baya for the organisation. It was an enjoyable evening.

I don’t need to say much more, because others have. David has put togther a list of all [...]

siblogs.Meet2006

Slovenian bloggers are meeting up tomorrow in Ljubljana for an evening of chat, food, drink and culture. If you blog, and are in Slovenia, come along.

More details:http://www.siblogs.com/meet2006/

Don’t forget to drop an email to the address on that page if you are attending.

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WordPress+Cork=Good Podcast

The lead developer of WordPress, Donncha O’Caoimh, is a Corkonian. You learn something new every day. Nice work Donncha. Matthew Mullenweg, the founding developer of WordPress, was in Ireland recently visiting and they got together for a podcast interview with Tom Raftery at Podleaders.

More on the podcast…

I haven’t listened to it yet, but intend to [...]