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Re: O’Reilly cork it up

Michele — Fri, 26 May 2006 14:01:40 -0000

Love the tshirt idea. Any chance of you setting up a shop with spreadshirt (see here) instead? The shipping cost from Cafepress would put me off buying it

Re: Domain Dementia

Michele — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 18:13:50 -0000

I've just got back from a conference where my personal portfolio would have been considered tiny. In fact anything less than 10 thousand domains was considered small :)

Re: Apache2 on Ubuntu

Michele — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 18:55:05 -0000

Yeah - it's very cool. Debian uses the same setup and it makes managing modules and vhosts so much simpler

Re: Anyone find a mobile? - Paul Walsh, the Irish Opportunist

Michele — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 05:53:18 -0000

Check the comments here:
http://www.mneylon.com/blog/archives/2007/08/27...

Syncing stuff on a Mac is dead easy once you've got the right plugin.

Re: Monster spam attack - Paul Walsh, the Irish Opportunist

Michele — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 09:51:42 -0000

Paul

I'm waiting for a callback from my solicitor.

Michele

Re: A URL is enough to win ISA best company of the year - Paul Walsh, the Irish Opportunist

Michele — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 20:15:22 -0000

I was a bit confused when I saw them winning that award as well. I got an invite to the beta, but I'm not that impressed with its UI at all. How a company that hasn't even got a public product or service can win an award is beyond me as well.
Drawing a parallel to Gmail doesn't hold much water. Gmail may have been "invite only", but just about everyone got one after the first few weeks.

Re: A URL is enough to win ISA best company of the year - Paul Walsh, the Irish Opportunist

Michele — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 05:04:49 -0000

What advantages would 2k membership bring you??

Re: Ireland Inc. Let’s just do it! - Paul Walsh, the Irish Opportunist

Michele — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 13:49:24 -0000

Paul

Sounds interesting. Have you decided on a venue?

Michele

Re: Ireland Inc. Let’s just do it! - Paul Walsh, the Irish Opportunist

Michele — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 07:52:39 -0000

John

At least IIA don't seriously overcharge for one day conferences unlike IT@Cork!

Michele

Re: Ireland Inc. Let’s just do it! - Paul Walsh, the Irish Opportunist

Michele — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 12:15:06 -0000

I'll be out of the country from the 16th until the 25th ...

Re: Enterprise Ireland can’t spell WWW - Paul Walsh, the Irish Opportunist

Michele — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 20:41:48 -0000

John

Sorry if I'm being thick, but I've never been great with acronyms. What's EI's EEP thing??

Michele

Re: Enterprise Ireland can’t spell WWW - Paul Walsh, the Irish Opportunist

Michele — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 05:55:10 -0000

Well we've never got ANY funding from EI or anyone else and we're doing fine.

Re: Lets create the Ireland Inc. brand and stop talking about it - Paul Walsh, the Irish Opportunist

Michele — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 15:36:45 -0000

@Conoro: Experience running events is well and good, but for anything like this to succeed you need to have as good a cross-section present / involved as possible.

Re: Lets create the Ireland Inc. brand and stop talking about it - Paul Walsh, the Irish Opportunist

Michele — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 21:22:58 -0000

Sleep is for civil servants!

/me wanders back to testing stuff

Re: New Irish Industry Association for Digital Media - Paul Walsh, the Irish Opportunist

Michele — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 10:36:18 -0000

I'll be there (unless something happens, in which case I might have to send my standin :) )

Re: Facebook doesn’t spam you, your friends do - Paul Walsh, the Irish Opportunist

Michele — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 04:28:00 -0000

Paul

I'd have to side with Joe on this one.

Couple of things annoy the life out of me:

- it's too easy to spam people with annoying applications etc.,

- it sends you emails telling you that someone has sent you a message, but doesn't actually send you the message

Both of the above might work for the Bebo generation, but I already get about a thousand emails a day. I'm trying to reduce the amount of non-essential emails flowing to my inbox.

I much prefer the less intrusive nature of LinkedIn

Michele

Re: Facebook doesn’t spam you, your friends do - Paul Walsh, the Irish Opportunist

Michele — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 06:04:44 -0000

@Paul

Who said they were actually friends?

Michele

Re: Facebook doesn’t spam you, your friends do - Paul Walsh, the Irish Opportunist

Michele — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 07:08:32 -0000

@aido - due to the way facebook "displays" profiles I end up accepting connections from $random people. The platform and UI is such a mess that I don't use it unless I have to

Re: Does your Web site work without WWW? - Paul Walsh, the Irish Opportunist

Michele — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 09:54:25 -0000

A lot of the ISPs traditionally do not create A records for domain.tld, so it will only work with the "www" part. Supposedly this is due to an old RFC
*sigh*

Re: Does your Web site work without WWW? - Paul Walsh, the Irish Opportunist

Michele — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 10:04:19 -0000

Paul - Why would I joke about it ? :)
I can't think of any examples offhand, as a lot of the sites I'd frequent aren't hosted by Eircom or Esat anymore.
The reasoning is something related to an RFC on DNS entries - I can't remember the exact one, though I'm sure someone else might have the reference to hand

Michele

Re: The facts about your privacy on Facebook - Paul Walsh, the Irish Opportunist

Michele — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 10:05:46 -0000

Paul

Thanks for the long and informative post.

It's a pity that Facebook's system is so badly laid out that you have to go to these lengths to help the rest of us :)

Michele

Re: Does your Web site work without WWW? - Paul Walsh, the Irish Opportunist

Michele — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 10:11:47 -0000

Paul

I had a "run in" with someone on the EI list about this a few months ago. While they had the DNS setup to handle both variations the plain domain.tld didn't point anywhere useful, so they were probably losing business and causing confusion as a result.

Of course from an SEO perspective it works a lot better to 301 the second record to the first

Re: Does your Web site work without WWW? - Paul Walsh, the Irish Opportunist

Michele — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 13:06:00 -0000

Ana

I think you misunderstood what Aidan was talking about. You need to have an A record, but you would use mod_rewrite or something similar to "push" the user to the URL you are actually using. See the link in my last comment

Michele

Re: Does your Web site work without WWW? - Paul Walsh, the Irish Opportunist

Michele — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 14:22:32 -0000

Aidan

The only thing is that DNS doesn't handle redirection as powerfully as rewriting does. It's very crippled :)
(not that you'd want it to do more ...)

Michele

Re: Google throws its toys out of the pram - Paul Walsh, the Irish Opportunist

Michele — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 15:12:20 -0000

Paul
You summed it up nicely.

They're all companies that want to make loads of money. There's nothing wrong with that. It's the pretending to be at something else that drives me mad!

Michele

Re: Google throws its toys out of the pram - Paul Walsh, the Irish Opportunist

Michele — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 17:13:51 -0000

@Paul - http://www.mneylon.com/blog/archives/2008/02/03...

Michele

Re: Google throws its toys out of the pram - Paul Walsh, the Irish Opportunist

Michele — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 17:33:25 -0000

*sigh*
Even though my post predates yours I'll edit it to include a link to you. ok? :)

Re: Google throws its toys out of the pram - Paul Walsh, the Irish Opportunist

Michele — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 17:45:05 -0000

Too late - link juice hath been bestowed

Re: How do you eat your pancake? - Paul Walsh, the Irish Opportunist

Michele — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 15:34:47 -0000

All we had was lemon for ours :(
They were nice though !

Re: More noise being added by the BWDMA - Paul Walsh, the Irish Opportunist

Michele — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 19:40:44 -0000

Aboutus.org is run by Jay Westerdal of NameIntelligence who also runs domaintools.com (formerly whois.sc). It's an automated wiki that pulls in data on domains/sites, but you can edit the content. You can see the new entry for this domain at: http://www.aboutus.org/Paulfwalsh.com

The "odd" portal you were taken to is just a parking page powered by Oversee.net. That it's visible and a site isn't would suggest that the original site is offline :)

Regards

Michele

Re: Should the CEO get involved? - Paul Walsh, the Irish Opportunist

Michele — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 08:26:31 -0000

Paul

It's an interesting question. I've been mulling over your post for the past couple of days and I'll probably follow it up when my thoughts are a bit more coherent :)

Michele

Re: Should the CEO get involved? - Paul Walsh, the Irish Opportunist

Michele — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:26:01 -0000

I'd disagree. If CEOs always responded in a manner that was universally acceptable you'd all complain ....
Isn't it more refreshing to get an honest reply instead?

Re: Should the CEO get involved? - Paul Walsh, the Irish Opportunist

Michele — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:46:47 -0000

Paul - aye. The problem is that some people will expect CEOs to cow tow to them constantly. I'm a firm believer in firing customers when required :)

Michele

Re: Should the CEO get involved? - Paul Walsh, the Irish Opportunist

Michele — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 11:09:39 -0000

@Paul - the focus on a particular ceo is probably helped by your explicit reference in your post :)
People commenting on these things only get to see a very small part of the picture. Regardless of which companies are involved. Companies such as ourselves have to respect the data privacy legislation, which means that we cannot share the full story in public ever.

Michele

Re: Should the CEO get involved? - Paul Walsh, the Irish Opportunist

Michele — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 12:40:30 -0000

What's with all the "nofollow" stuff?

Re: Should the CEO get involved? - Paul Walsh, the Irish Opportunist

Michele — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 08:33:47 -0000

Paul - you :)

All the links to commenter's sites are marked as "nofollow"
See: http://www.mneylon.com/blog/archives/2006/05/30...

Re: Should the CEO get involved? - Paul Walsh, the Irish Opportunist

Michele — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 05:59:33 -0000

Kamrul
Wikipedia's "nofollow" was a recent change and has come under a lot of criticism from SEO professionals.
The entire idea behind no follow is to tell Google et al not to follow the link, so it impacts SEO negatively.
I and others are more than happy to share link juice on our blogs and I'm quite surprised and disappointed that Paul doesn't want to
Michele

Re: Should the CEO get involved? - Paul Walsh, the Irish Opportunist

Michele — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 08:46:05 -0000

There's no security issues that I'm aware of. If you're moderating your comments sanely you won't have any issues :)

The only reason some of the software developers turned on "nofollow" by default was to thrawt comment spammers.
As far as I know there are a couple of plugins for Wordpress that will "magically" remove the "nofollow" reference or you could simply hack the template. The plugin might make maintenance easier however

Michele

Re: Should the CEO get involved? - Paul Walsh, the Irish Opportunist

Michele — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 08:52:50 -0000

That's rubbish tbh :)

I've got "follow" on all comment links on all my blogs (both personal and business)
If you have a look at the post I linked to earlier and some of the other posts linked to it you'll see a lot of people are doing "follow"

Re: Should the CEO get involved? - Paul Walsh, the Irish Opportunist

Michele — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 09:17:03 -0000

Nah. My Google rank is low because I sold text links in the footer. Since they're paying enough to cover my car repayments they're staying :)

Re: Should the CEO get involved? - Paul Walsh, the Irish Opportunist

Michele — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 09:20:01 -0000

Google PR doesn't really matter anymore anyway :)

Re: Should the CEO get involved? - Paul Walsh, the Irish Opportunist

Michele — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 09:21:35 -0000

@Paul - as cheap as what / who?
/me is confused

Re: More noise being added by the BWDMA - Paul Walsh, the Irish Opportunist

Michele — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 18:52:59 -0000

@Paul - No digging required :) You're talking domain related stuff, so I have the info to hand

Re: More noise being added by the BWDMA - Paul Walsh, the Irish Opportunist

Michele — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 18:55:50 -0000

Paul - Em. What's my motivation? :)

Re: Interflora squanders money while Google adds little value - Paul Walsh, the Irish Opportunist

Michele — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 20:03:50 -0000

Unfortunately a lot of companies are clueless about search marketing - which isn't SEO.

SEM and SEO are two different animals. There maybe an overlap in some cases, but it's not the same thing.

I've seen a lot of ads that point to 404s or simply do not load at all.
I've seen ads with January 2007 "specials" in December.

Interflora are obviously a bit clueless :)

Re: Come join me in Norway via Qik - Paul Walsh, the Irish Opportunist

Michele — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 11:10:43 -0000

Can you change the message that is sent to twitter etc?
The default one is really annoying and you can get about ten of them in a row if you're unlucky

Re: Look who’s coming to Top Cats in May - Paul Walsh, the Irish Opportunist

Michele — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:40:21 -0000

Paul
Thanks for the invite. I feel honoured and humbled at the same time.
On a sidenote, why do you refer to it as June if it's being held on the 1st of May?
Michele

Re: Look who’s coming to Top Cats in May - Paul Walsh, the Irish Opportunist

Michele — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 06:28:17 -0000

Ah cool. I thought it was some "hip" way of dealing with the space time continuum or something :)

I think you met me briefly at an ISPAI meeting a couple of years ago

Re: You pay for what you get - Paul Walsh, the Irish Opportunist

Michele — Thu, 08 May 2008 09:10:42 -0000

We've wasted silly amounts of time in the past preparing complex quotes for clients. I'd love to charge the clients for our time :(

Re: You pay for what you get - Paul Walsh, the Irish Opportunist

Michele — Thu, 08 May 2008 15:27:40 -0000

Paul
The other thing that can and does happen is that a "prospect" needs to get X number of quotes, so your quote may only be required to make up the numbers. Regardless of the product or service being provided a complex and detailed quote takes time to prepare.
Michele

Re: Speak up, I’m on the plane - Paul Walsh, the Irish Opportunist

Michele — Tue, 27 May 2008 03:38:01 -0000

Allowing people to use their phones will make money for the airlines from what I've understood.

Being stuck beside some idiot who wants to discuss their libido on the phone would drive me mad. If I can't smoke on the plane why the hell should I have to listen to other people's loud conversations?

Michele

Re: Top Cats gathering in June - Paul Walsh, the Irish Opportunist

Michele — Tue, 27 May 2008 15:53:56 -0000

I really enjoyed the Top Cat evening in May and we did manage to continue it a bit in a nearby pub. Pity you didn't make it :)

Re: HSBC snubs startups - Paul Walsh, the Irish Opportunist

Michele — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:54:44 -0000

Bizarre!

So I presume the other banks don't have these policies?

Re: “Where the hell is that Whatley guy?”

Michele — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 06:50:24 -0000

So it would almost be cheaper to use a satellite phone than roam in Australia, like I did recently.
*sigh*

Enjoy the trips anyway :)

Re: Off to go to Dublin, Disconnects between Blogosphere and Real World

Michele — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 08:21:46 -0000

Glad to hear you are enjoying Ireland.

With regard to bloggers and the new MS products there's probably a very simple explanation behind it. A lot of us don't use MS products that much or simply cannot get excited by a product launch - unless of course you were referring to MS bloggers?

Re: Startups: your web site sucks

Michele — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 17:55:13 -0000

If the sites are under embargo why are any of them showing more than a simple logo?
A simple logo with a "coming soon" or "launching at Demo" would have been a lot better than what most of them are showing the world at the moment

Re: Google’s Web Analytics Software Out of Beta

Michele — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:38:53 -0000

I've been playing with it on one of my servers and posted a review back in February:
http://www.mneylon.com/blog/archives/2008/02/06...

The granular control is the big selling point for me.

Michele

Michele's last blog post..Mac Air Up For Grabs

Re: Using Search Engines Instead of the Address Bar to Navigate

Michele — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:15:16 -0000

As a hosting provider we get a lot of support queries from users who cannot tell the difference between the address bar and searching via google (or another search engine on their default homepage)

Re: Using Search Engines Instead of the Address Bar to Navigate

Michele — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:40:25 -0000

Bernhard - not remembering the web address of a random website is one thing, but not remembering your own company site?

Michele

Re: Google to Departing Employees: I’m Afraid I Can’t Let You Do That Dave

Michele — Tue, 19 May 2009 10:55:22 -0000

While it's an interesting story in some respects, do we really care if Google turns over staff?

If I was a Google shareholder I'd be worried about them wasting time and resources on this kind of thing

Re: DNS oversight equals out of date website

Michele — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 03:02:23 -0000

Unfortunately a LOT of sites suffer from this problem and worse. In some cases the ISPs don't even create A records for domain.tld, so people can't reach the site without the "www" which is a bit mad. I know there is an old RFC that some of them use as an excuse, but it still costs people.
Another issue is shadow dns zones, which are leftover when domains are moved from one provider to another.
It makes it all quite messy :)

Michele

Re: Adwords Trademark Policy update in Ireland & UK

Michele — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 18:49:33 -0000

The new Google policy is a copout.
The only reason they're doing it is because they haven't been challenged enough in Irish and UK courts. I can't see them trying to pull the same trick in other EU countries since they've already seen how well that would be received.

Re: Hosting Recommendations

Michele — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 17:07:05 -0000

What kind of hosting do you require?

What kind of support will you need?

If you host in Ireland with any of the larger hosting companies you will be able to get technical support during Irish office hours (and outside them too), whereas if you host overseas you may not.

In terms of connectivity etc., any host that peers at INEX will have plenty of connectivity and will probably run a reasonably solid network.

Of course I´m ever so slightly biased :)

Then again I also know how much we´ve spent on network infrastructure over the last year!

Michele

Re: Vote on your favourite logo for Web2Ireland

Michele — Tue, 06 May 2008 05:36:11 -0000

The only one that's "bearable" is number 1 and even that one is pretty awful

Re: CoComment – Dubious at first, now a big fan

Michele — Sun, 12 Feb 2006 08:06:43 -0000

I've been trying to get the RSS feed from it working all morning, but it seems to be under a lot of pressure. Could it be a victim of its own success?

Re: Google Toolbar for Firefox

Michele — Fri, 08 Jul 2005 04:55:31 -0000

I am happier with the way this plugin displays PR:
https://addons.update.mozilla.org/extensions/mo...

See http://www.mneylon.com/blog/archives/2005/01/07... for screenshots

Re: Graves Vulnerabilidades en Wordpress

Michele — Mon, 11 Jul 2005 16:17:18 -0000

Segun lo que he visto esos problemas estan presentes en muchos scripts PHP que utilizan xml-rpc y no solo los CMS

Re: Replace Performancing stats with Feedburner’s StandardStats

Michele — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 21:15:20 -0000

Interesting. I've been using FeedBurner for ages, but I wasn't aware that you could also use it on your blog.

I'm currently using Google Analytics, but have been playing around with Firestats, which is very nice (and completely free)

Michele