Ordered the Asus EEE 4gb Webcam PC about a month ago but due to serious stock shortages it only arrived today. First impressions, very impressed. Here’s the obligatory unpacking photos: Comes with a nifty little case so you can fuck it in your suitcase when you’re off travelling. And a charger, manual and support CD […]
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a late response to seo is bullshit
A blog post over at contrast got a lot of attention the last few weeks. Some people say it’s just linkbait but I’m pretty sure it’s how he feels. I think it shows the divide in the way web designers/developers and seo/marketers think. This is a business. Companies hire people to design websites because they […]
jason calacanis at affiliate summit
Blogosphere going a bit mad over Jason Calacanis comments at Affiliate Summit. He’s an ‘aul pro at getting people talking. My favourite quote: You guys really think small. Holding up a six figure check is frankly pathetic. It’s desperate. The industry I’m in, like the Internet industry, like Web 2.0 industry elitist, you know. Kevin […]
downgrading to xp on a dell inspiron 1521
Bought an inspiron on dells refurbished site for half nothing but it came with Vista. I never tried Vista but have no interest in leaving XP, which works grand. Dells site doesn’t have many XP drivers if you enter inspiron 1521 and it took me agggess on the Google to get video drivers for the […]
calacanis wants to outsource ‘repetative’ (sic) tasks to ireland
Jason Calacanis showing his ignorance with a twitter last night on how he wants to outsource mindless drone work to irish or indians. I’ve often used cheap labour myself for stuff like captcha solving but I wouldn’t be sourcing anywhere local. Indian GDP per capita is $3,800. Irish GDP per capita is $44,500. A little […]
getting your mobile site to work on all phones
I have a fairly popular WAP site which is running Adsense Mobile ads and getting 300,000 impressions a day according to that so it’s pretty big. Problem is it was coded in WML 1.3 years ago when that was the only format that mobiles used. But smartphone browsers like my Nokia E61 use xhmtl-mp and […]
yet another monster ireland spam post
Monster caught spamming people scraped from it@corks member list, not too serious in fairness, just trying to drum up business but going it around the completely wrong way. Why would anyone send unsolicited email signed with their respectable company name? And then John Burns Monster claiming the email addresses of the member list were fair […]
google adsense for mobile code hack
Google have announced adsense for mobile so I decided to test it out on my ringtones WAP site which gets quite a lot of page impressions, 11 million in August though that includes the actual media files which obviously can’t have adsense on them. Went into my adsense account and created the mobile code to […]
adwords api pricing
Why is the adwords api so expensive? It should be completely free, don’t Google want us to use their system. Wrote a php script to add loads of keywords and ran it on a test run to insert about 3000 keywords with a seperate adgroup for every 2 keywords, so 1500 ad groups. I knew […]
Price comparison of .ie domain name registrars
I register a few .ie domains and am always wondering what’s the cheapest. Couldn’t find any comparison on the net so I went through the Table A list of companies on the IEDR site. Table A companies have registered over 500 domains. If any of the other companies sell cheap, contact me. So I tried […]