techno-culture

Aer Lingus staff are threatening strike action — to start potentially on the day I am flying to the US for a long-planned family holiday. The company can only reroute me free of charge if I want to go three days earlier, on Sunday — which will cost me an extra chunk of dosh to [...]

One of my favourite Irish tech leaders, Chris Horn of Iona Technologies, has written a provocative and I think, very insightful piece on Ireland Inc and entrepreneurialism over on his blog.Out visiting Stanford, he got into a vigorous discussion on where Ireland stands now and whither it is going over dinner with 30 Irish based [...]

Tags: immigrants, Iona, Ryanair

After a couple of years using phpBB for my Cavaliertalk board I’ve reached a frustration point with spam registrations and feeble member management tools (I’m at 1250, amazingly enough, and pick up a few each day) and after talking to various folks, have decided to port it to vBulletin. I looked into other open source [...]

Yes, I know; it has been a very long time. I stopped blogging nearly a year ago when my Radio blogging software subscription expired as I was looking for a more flexible program. Then, around early summer I moved to a new hosting company, when I thought I’d be up and running using WordPress. But [...]