Mar
10

unemployment

Google launched a new toy today called ‘public data‘. It allows you to mess around with stats and graphs and make boring stuff interesting :smile: Like unemployment rates for example…

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Mar
09

google jigsaw

Last month i blogged about how theleavingcert.com had been punished by google for failing to have proper meta tags and descriptions on all pages. Less than a month later, we’ve got our top spot back…

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Mar
08

usb storage

I recently bought my first portable hard drive (portable as in passport size, not the ’small brick’ size). I also have a pretty fancy usb stick, so i’ll run through the pros and cons of each under 5 different headings and try to come out with a winner.

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Mar
07

ideas

Most of the time, ideas for blog posts ill come naturally to me however i do have to force ideas every now and then. Here are 10 places where i get inspiration / ideas / news from…

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Mar
06

where it belongs

A room full of PC’s in my college are using IE6. That’s ok with me if it’s deliberate and for research purposes or teaching people web design problems  / limitations etc… but if you’re using IE6 along with an old operating system and old computer, well that’s just not cool…

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