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#“21st Century Milkman” We've recently started using a new milkman after a many year gap and I've been thinking a lot about him. Back in the late 80s and early 90s, the co-ops/creameries basically shut down the in-house milkmen and many of them became independent businesses. I had thought it would be a slow inexorable death for them because of price-competition from the big supermarkets. We stopped using the one in Kimmage in the mid-90s because our milk demands were so variable and he only delivered on certain days. »

#“Automatically Backup Your WordPress Site to Dropbox” A new plugin is available that gives you the opportunity to put Dropbox to work for the security of your WordPress site. Heres how you can set up automatic backups of your WordPress site to Dropbox: via wpmu.org Superb idea if you aren't already doing it to Amazon S3 or similar. Particularly good if the whole area of backups seems like a black art to you. »

#“Oi Google, I want my extra free \u008011.15 ;-)” I bet the email with the 100 mention was sent from Barrow Street. To an Irish-registered AdWords account. See the full gallery on Posterous »

#“Does Skype hate its customers?” With every new release of Skype it gets slower and slower and buggier and buggier. But that's not the worst of it. I pay them for both inbound numbers and for a lot of call charges. Yet every damned morning when I get up, this stupid message greets me. And that's after un-ticking all of the "of course I want you to try and sell me more shit" »

#“My Ever Decreasing List of Desktop Apps” I re-set up a PC last week and installed all of my most-used apps. The list gets shorter and shorter each year as I move everything online. Here's a snapshot of the bulk of them (MS Office implied of course). »

#“Google Docs on Android is Here” via market.android.com I seem to spend half my life in Google Docs. Now I can spend the other half. »

#“The Happy Foot Co is feeding my #VFFs Addiction” It's ridiculous I know. I average one pair of new footwear every two years. I wear shoes until they fall apart and then I buy one more pair. That's now utterly changed. I bought my Vibram Five Fingers Bikilas exactly one month ago. Running on a treadmill with them is genuinely like having new legs. Unfortunately, like a fool, I ran on the road only two weeks in and I'm still suffering with a pain in one foot. »

#“Multiple Skype Accounts on one PC” How the hell am I only hearing about this now?"C:Program FilesSkypePhoneSkype.exe" /secondary Would still prefer if it was like all the decent chat clients out there and had multi-accounts built into one UI. »

#"@Eircom, @VodafoneIreland and others need Twitter Status Accounts" I find that the @eircom account on Twitter is generally extremely responsive and is the fastest way to get an answer to questions. @VodafoneIreland is very good too. However, they both (and O2, Meteor, emobile etc) need to implement status accounts, either a global one each or regional ones. So rather than tons of people badgering them about outages (in particular), we can go to the status account and see what's going on. »

#“Who needs a Mac when you have Macbuntu and a paintbrush?” I'm at a technology workshop tomorrow and you can be sure most of the people there will have MBPs and Airs. In a desperate attempt to blend in, I have covered my old Dell D420 in a coat of Dulux Pure Brilliant White Gloss and installed Macbuntu. I'm sitting here looking at my messed up Ubuntu and giggling. »