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Re: How Much Is Too Much?

irish gifts — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 09:56:47 -0000

I think the whole social media thing has to be reduced in size and I think over time it will be.

There will emerge a top contenter in due course, but for the meantime we'll have to put up with multipul accounts and things coming from everywhere.

Re: How To Define Web 3.0

irish gifts — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 06:56:25 -0000

Wow, that was some read... Really, really interesting tho so well worth it.

One point i'd like to make is about search engines collecting information about our preferences and then presenting info based on what we've done historically. When Amazon started doing this for me when I was first using them to buy books about film producing I thought it was great. Saved a lot of time searching because it usually ushered me to where I wanted to go in the first place. Then time went on, I became totally uninterested in film producing and the preferences thing became annoying.

I still get emails from Amazon telling me about some new book which I have no interest in, and I suspect that in the not too distant future I'll be getting emails about books about military history - which I'm looking for now.

Obviously it'd be great to just press delete and you could remove that bit of the softwares memory but I have a feeling we'd all be doing this rather a lot.

I wonder how this will be handled?

Re: Fake Escort Ads Target A Miami Realtor

irish gifts — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 09:42:58 -0000

Thats absolutely horrible. Poor woman. I heard recently about a lady who had sent pictures of herself to her husbands mobile phone, the phone got lost and the pics ended up on the internet along with her phone number.

Needless to say she had to move etc... much stress I'm sure.

Re: First iPhone Bill: $170

irish gifts — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 07:46:47 -0000

$77 is about 50Euros or so isn't it? That seems spot on for what your getting, baring in mind it's including the oneoff switching on fees and so forth.

I agree with whoever it was above who said who cares about the bill, just love the phone.

Although the new models that are coming out from all the different manufacturers do look bloody sexy too.

Re: Advertising on Twitter, kill or cure?

irish gifts — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 09:04:50 -0000

I agree good post. Interesting hearing views about twitter - which I could never see how they thought it could survive the gimmick phase

Re: but she's a girl... » Sowing time

irish gifts — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 08:45:57 -0000

I'm going to be giving a bit of growing for the first time this coming year. I've just moved into a house with a sizable vegetable patch so realling looking forward to giving this a go.

Re: Digital World Tokyo | Solar charger hooks up with iPod, PSP and DS

irish gifts — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 13:36:25 -0000

Is it available in the UK and Ireland? I'd definately have one

Re: AOL, Red Hat, and Yahoo Support a U.S. National ID

irish gifts — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 13:10:18 -0000

I think the idea of an ID card is a great idea. There are of course lots of conspiracy theorists out there who reckon it'd be a bit like Big Brother but think of the advantages.

1 ID instead of many. (Potentially) online voting. easier movement of people around Europe and USA Canada and Australia

Re: FREE from Chris Anderson

irish gifts — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 08:51:56 -0000

I read the Long Tail (book - I believe he wrote an article by the same name as well) no doubt the idea was inspirational for me. I've passed the book round a few friends as well.

But the idea that people can be "[getting something] from a superior service after giving away something inferior for free" worries me. If I understand what he's getting at properly then it all sounds like a pyramid scheme to me which is a model I have seen with frightening regularity online.

Re: Google Rankings Drive Sales - SEO Expectations | BPWrap

irish gifts — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 13:04:17 -0000

Great post there.

You got me thinking about what I've been trying to do with my own site. I have been focussed with getting up the rankings and now that is starting to happen I need to be thinking about how to get people to notice me and buy stuff.

Thanks for opening my mind

Re: .NET Cheat Sheet: ASP.NET 2.0 Page Life Cycle & Common Events

irish gifts — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 09:13:12 -0000

Me too. Cheers

Re: BeautyHealth Dishes On Summer Hairstyles 2008

irish gifts — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 09:33:57 -0000

Is that Goldie Hawn in the second from bottom? She gets younger everytime I see her! (I don't have my glasses on btw)

Either way I think the straight sleek look looks good for almost any occasion. It might be a little formal but smacks of class.

Re: SuperAntiSpyware – Remove all the spyware

irish gifts — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 09:29:59 -0000

I downloaded it and installed it. It was quick to install and the file was a lot smaller than a lot of other AntiSpy progs I've tried.

Seems to work fine. Found a few malicious programs which others hadn't previously found.

Re: A Blank Wordpress Theme for You to Draw on

irish gifts — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 13:45:22 -0000

Thanks for this. I was looking for something nearly like this, but it'll do!

Re: Arizona Moves Back into the Pacific Time Zone

irish gifts — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 06:18:46 -0000

I live in Ireland and this far north the shift for daylight saving is almost essential.

In the winter we'd be spending most of our time in the dark if we didn't shift the hour. There's precious little daylight during the winter months already, makes sense to savor it.

Re: Testing Disqus Comment System

irish gifts — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 10:33:24 -0000

Does anyone have a blog with this installed? I'd very intrigued to find out more about it

Re: Playstation 3 Remote Control Solutions

irish gifts — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 11:30:26 -0000

I really don't see the point in getting a remote. I always have the control in my hands or near by and I'm so used to it now it feels like part of me.

I wouldn't want to ruin the relationship I have with my control by having an affair with a remote control

Re: Bharti Airtel May Partner With Google On Phone Software

irish gifts — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 15:53:11 -0000

The whole world's going google crazy.

Re: How to find Happiness

irish gifts — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 12:23:13 -0000

I think you're right. People sometimes focus on chasing their 'dream' of having more money believing that that will make them happier. In fact it can burn them out. You're better off finding out exactly what makes you happy and chase that instead. Money can't buy you happiness