#“Tats and piercings are so over. True hipsters are now sporting Nose LEDs.” Get in there quick before the normals get their hands on them. Warning: I’m not sure if they are compatible with large hipster glasses. »
#“Visualisation of Irish Property Price Register Data using Interactive Map from Google Fusion Tables” UPDATE: Second attempt at this: I just grabbed the three CSV files from the Residential Property Price Register site (why is a Captcha needed for that?). I merged some address columns in Excel and added “Ireland” to all of the addresses. I then just imported into Google Fusion Tables and told it to Geo-Code the data. »
#“Notch makes getting fit a little less po-faced” Getting fit and losing weight is a very serious subject. But it shouldn’t be. All the talk of burn and crunch and walls and plank and core and bootcamps and weigh-ins would put anyone off. No wonder so many people are obese. I’ve been reading Scott Jurek’s book Eat & Run for the past while and it’s incredibly inspirational. Not in a happy-clappy sense but in the pure joy of running that leaps off the page. »
#“APIs, Web Services, Cloud, AWS - Slides from my talk yesterday at #OFFSITE2012” The first ever OFFSITE event in West Cork yesterday was a big success. I learned a lot from all the other speakers both about technology and business. The real stand-out for me was Ger Keohane’s talk on eCommerce conversions. It was pretty stunning how you can seriously improve conversions to actual purchase with some very non-obvious changes. »
#“Harbour Hopping in West Cork - Apple uses Google Maps hand-me-downs” We’ve had much hilarity online today over the awfulness of Apple’s new iOS6 Maps. I finally just got it installed on the iPad and of course decided to check the local situation. Actually notdisastrous. The golf club is notlabelledas an airship landing strip for a start. But then I spotted something interesting. Back about 6 years ago, Google Maps was completely useless in West Cork. »
#“I’m speaking at the OFFSITE Conference next week about AWS, APIs, SaaS etc” I mentioned the OFFSITE Conference over on Web2Ireland recently. It’s the frst time a major technology event is being held in West Cork and everyone in business in Munster and beyond should consider attending. It’s all happening next week, 27th September in Rosscarbery. The title of my talk is “Building on The Shoulders of Giants: How Irish businesses can quickly deliver Enterprise-quality products through the smart use of software services” »
#“Standing Desk Update” My standing desk experiments have been intermittent but I’ve put some renewed effort in recently due to some back twinges. I finally cleared out the tiny annex office off my main office and changed the standing desk over to my main laptop. Overall it works brilliantly and is more stable than the previous set of cardboard boxes :-) The floor mat is important to avoid getting sore heels. »
#“How the hell did I miss the upcoming shutdown of FeedBurner? Another lesson in lock-in.” How the hell did I miss the fact that Google is shutting down FeedBurner in October? I always remember Dave Winer warning all us bloggers back in 2007 that we were nuts to insert a single company between us and our readers.Most of us thought he was being a crank. It turns out he was right. »
#“Sugru + Old Mondeo = Yay” My ancient old Ford Mondeo (2001) is still going strong. In some ways I hate it for doing so. It’s an appliance and I don’t like appliances, I like things with character. Prior to it I only bought Citroens (BX, AX, Xantia) and I loved them dearly. But they were unreliable piles of junk assembled by drunks. Then, once we had kids, an appliance became necessary. »
#""Games You May Like on Facebook". That’d be None. Why are Ads so broken in 2012?" If Facebook paid even a minutes notice to the intention graph rather than the social graph, they’d see that I relentlessly click Hide on all mentions of games. Then maybe they could avoid wasting their valuable screen real-estate pimping something I will never ever ever click on. I also had a look at some of the ads on FB today. »