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#“Quick conoroneill.net Stattos” I've been blogging since 2001 and have long since lost any interest in stats on my blog posts. I never check non-biz related stats. But for interest's sake I've been monitoring conoroneill.net since it is a brand-new blog. I dunno if these stats are good, bad or indifferent for a new blog that is 99% promoted via Twitter and Facebook links. The one that jumps out at me is that whilst Twitter generates 18% of the visits, Facebook only generates 4%. »

Yahoo Launches Blah Blah Blah and Then Cancels It 18 Months Later Instead of updating your friends contact information when it changes, your friends just do it for themselves and then everyone with permission to get that information automatically has their address book updated. via techcrunch.com No-one in their right mind would spend time building up any data-set in Yahoo because you can be guaranteed with the next bungee VP re-shuffle, it'll get canned. »

#“Praise Allah, Chris Morris is back and he’s packing” He hasn't done even one vaguely funny thing since Brass Eye. What a comeback. This looks bloody fantastic.   »

#“How Dead is Buzz? This dead.” I'm "following" 202 people on Buzz. Of course following would mean that I logon more than once a week. Look closely at that screenshot. One person, one, is actually posting on Buzz. Every single other post there is automatically pulled from Twitter, Friendfeed, Flickr etc etc. No matter how far back I scroll, it's the same. Kill it. Start again. Hire some people who actually understand people, not code. »

#“Huawei dongle with external antenna is in da house” Quick update on my outdoor broadband antenna story. I ordered a Huawei E176 broadband dongle on eBay from Hong Kong and a connector from Solwise in the UK two weeks ago. Connector arrived last week. Huawei just arrived. It means I should be able to get very solid HSDPA/HSUPA using the outdoor antenna. Will test as soon as it stops raining (June). »

#“Die, Black UIs, Die Die Die” I mentioned this on Twitter over the past two days. I absolutely hate black-heavy user-interfaces on anything. It was prompted by my trial of the soon-to-be-released Ubuntu 10.04. All previous versions of Ubuntu had a colour scheme even more offensive than black: pooh brown. It's the first thing I change whenever I install it. I was really happy to see the purple boot screen on this new version of Ubuntu but that turned to horror when it finally loaded and everything else was black. »

#“Imagine if Bill was still alive. And living in Ireland.” Imagine how he'd deal with our snakes and weasels. Bill Hicks = Jesus 2.0 and we only sussed it after he died.     »

#“A stench of evil, starting at the top” In May of that year, Ratzinger issued a confidential letter to every bishop. In it, he reminded them of the extreme gravity of a certain crime. But that crime was the reporting of the rape and torture. The accusations, intoned Ratzinger, were only treatable within the church's own exclusive jurisdiction. Any sharing of the evidence with legal authorities or the press was utterly forbidden. »

#“Streaming video to kids in car. The Video.” Really pleased with how well this is working with the N770 tablets and Mediatomb running on EEbuntu. Now going to try Android, iPhone and N95-8GB a streaming clients. Have already got it working with Windows Media Player. Less success on the Linux video players without hacking. If someone knows how to lock the N770 screen without causing the video to pause and creating a catch-22, let me know. »

#“Twitter Hates its Irish Users” Twitter's first foray into the world of advertising involves them relentlessly badgering anyone in Ireland who has an 087 number with this ad front and centre at the top of their timeline. The _only_ way to remove this eyesore is to delete your mobile number from your settings or via a bookmarklet! (thanks to those lovely people who gave me those tips) If this is the subtle non-intrusive advertising that Ev Williams and Biz Stone are going to roll out to all their users, gawd help us all. »