A couple of week's back we switched the company phones over to Three Ireland and were given Nokia N96 handsets: It looks quite attractive, doesn't it? Unfortunately it's also the single worst phone I can remember owning. While it may look quite good at first glance try putting in the battery and you...

The DSL in Carlow is not very happy this evening. My own connection is trying it's best to pretend it's 56k dialup! Look at this latency: I wasn't even using the line here until after 6pm! Ah well - the joys of broadband in Ireland!...

ORDB was shutdown ages ago (end of 2006!). Why the hell are people still using it on their mail servers? Make sure your mail server isn't using it!...

I'm currently working on a new project in the evenings and weekends that involves playing with merchant datafeeds. The big lesson I've learnt in the last 48 hours is that XML is a pig to work with. The data from merchant X weighs in at 84 megs as a CSV. If you grab the same data as XML you end up wi...