#“Here’s hoping that bunch stay in Rome” via youtube.com Or are all arrested on their return for criminal conspiracy to cover up child rape over decades. Stephen Fry, as always, expresses the anger we all feel better than we could ourselves. »
#“Teic.ie - Irish company Jivo make biodegradable iPhone case” Irish company Jivo has unveiled its biodegradable iPhone case the Jivo Leaf which is both designed and manufactured in Ireland. The company says it has already secured 1m orders for the case which will retail for 20 in Irish shops. via teic.ie The Jivo guys rock. Brilliant business. »
#“I will not vote for Fianna Fail again as long as Mary Coughlan is in cabinet” Ryanair has claimed that the Government's refusal to upset the DAA by considering an application from the budget airline led it to open a maintenance facility in Prestwick, Scotland with the creation of 200 jobs. via irishtimes.com Of course a lot of this particular story is Ryanair spin but Mary Couglan is simply not competent as Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment and is an active impediment to the economic recovery of this country. »
#“Nokia fightin' back” via engadget.com I thought the N810 was the final nail in the coffin of Maemo since there was no senior management support for it. So I was thrilled they released the N900. Now everyone knows that high-end Nokia Smartphones will all eventually be Maemo even if Nokia can't admit it yet. Meego is a really smart move. A genuine fully-open competitor to Android that runs on a wide range of devices with two giants behind it. »
#“Anyone got a workflow engine for Wordpress?” I've been making my own little client sign-up workflow inside Wordpress but there is a definite opportunity for someone to build a mini-workflow-engine for WP.Just pages/forms with strong conditional logic and branching and go-back. My kludge with a long page hierarchy, smart url naming and Gravity Forms will do in the short term but I could really do with the branching to separate pages based on input to forms (e. »
#“Pat is right about Haiti Connect” I speak from a tiny bit of knowledge of Haiti, having spoken this weekend with a number of people who were out there on Havens last trip and having had a call with someone out there yesterday, they were roaming on the Haitian mobile network Digicel which appears to be almost fully operational. via patphelan.net I'm sure Evert means well but unless he is invited by one of the major charities on the ground, publicly, to come to Haiti and help, he should stop now. »
#“Install Firefox 3.6 in Ubuntu the Super Easy Way using Ubuntuzilla | Tech Drive” Firefox 3.6 final is released and yet again, most Ubuntu users are not able to upgrade their resident Firefox 3.5 to this latest release. Let's cut the chase. All you need to do is to get the latest version of Ubuntuzilla, a python script which pretty much gets the job done, and you will have you Firefox 3.6 installed and ready to rock. »
#“Kids on The Web: Are They Satisfied With Virtual Worlds and Games?” via readwriteweb.com Interesting timing. My kids just went through a site like this with a critical eye and the opinions varied wildly between the 8 y/o and the 10 y/i. If you have kids under 12, they'd appreciate it if you could fill out a survey with the kids beside you. »
#“Outraged Blogger Is Automatically Being Followed By Her Abusive Ex-Husband On Google Buzz” via businessinsider.com I am now convinced no-one outside of Google ever tested this product before they went for global launch. I am also convinced that no-one inside Google had the balls to tell the people who built it that it was riddled with problems and was about as ready for release as Duke Nukem Forever. I don't think I've ever seen a webapp released with so many fundamental glaring flaws in all my life by a global company. »
#“EirePreneur:Mobhaile misgivings” Bernie Goldbach shares some of my misgivings regarding Mobhaile, the Local Government Computer Services Board's new public information initiative . Most pertinently he asks - "What's wrong with rolling out an Irish-wide blogging system? The model has been tested since 1999 by several Irish bloggers. The back-ends are simple modifications of Perl, PHP, and scripted environments. There's no need to replicate document libraries or to deal with anything more complex than a MySQL database. »