Paul OFlaherty posted an article on Oflaherty - Nov 2, 2009, 3:55 pm
Lost in the crowd? I’m constantly amazed by the sheer numbers of people on Twitter that follow you back just to keep you as a number. Yesterday I reduced the number of people that I was follow...
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Paul OFlaherty posted an article on Oflaherty - Oct 29, 2009, 10:00 am
The concept of cloud computing is brilliant and I must admit to relying on the cloud for a lot of my day to day activities such as Gmail, calendar, Google voice etc… But then something happens ...
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Paul OFlaherty posted an article on Oflaherty - Oct 27, 2009, 7:53 pm
I don’t often write very personal posts on this blog. I’ve always kept it to the tech side but today I find myself revisiting a topic that I wrote about on May 13th 2008 just a few hours b...
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Paul OFlaherty posted an article on Oflaherty - Oct 25, 2009, 7:43 pm
Google Wave Wow, I was completely shocked by the number of readers who left your name in the comments in order to pick up one of the 20 Google Wave invites I had to give away. There were 139 of you ...
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Paul OFlaherty posted an article on Oflaherty - Oct 24, 2009, 7:28 pm
Interactive User Channels? Google launched a new page on YouTube to promote the new set of “Artist Themes” for Googles browser Chrome. The page itself features a fairly cool short video depictin...
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Paul OFlaherty posted an article on Oflaherty - Oct 24, 2009, 5:18 pm
Confused and Frustrated? Dear WordPress Plugin Developers, I know you’ve spent a long time working on your plugin and I am very grateful for the work you have done. However, as someone who spe...
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Paul OFlaherty posted an article on Oflaherty - Oct 23, 2009, 8:39 pm
Pirillo, Cashmore & Chen I just watched CNN’s interview with Chris Pirilo (Lockergnome), Pete Cashmore (Mashable) and Brian Chen (Wired) discussing Microsofts latest OS offering, Windows 7. Wh...
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Paul OFlaherty posted an article on Oflaherty - Oct 23, 2009, 4:18 pm
Google Wave I’ve got 20 Google Wave invites to give away for anybody who would like to try out Googles vision of the future of online collaboration and the replacement of email. Want to get yo...
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Paul OFlaherty posted an article on Oflaherty - Oct 21, 2009, 4:17 pm
5 Billion. That’s the kind of  mind boggling number that the mind can’t really visualize. We have a conceptual idea, like the notion of our planet being like a grain of sand on the beach ...
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Paul OFlaherty posted an article on Oflaherty - Oct 19, 2009, 7:49 pm
TuneIn to Twitter I’ve spent the last few minutes checking out TuneIn a cool new web based Twitter client that has some great new features such as separating the media out from you stream so yo...
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Paul OFlaherty posted an article on Oflaherty - Oct 19, 2009, 10:00 am
Killing ourselves off! Warning: ** If you’re easily offended I suggest you click off to another blog this instant because I will offend your delicate sensibilities. This post is about the blogo...
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Paul OFlaherty posted an article on Oflaherty - Oct 17, 2009, 8:14 pm
Trust me! An interesting question was inadvertently raised by @SabrinaDent (Sabrinas blog) earlier when responding on Twitter to my post “The FCC, TSA, @MyBottlesUp And Why Bloggers Can’t Be Trus...
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Paul OFlaherty posted an article on Oflaherty - Oct 17, 2009, 3:59 pm
Nic from MyBottlesUp - Lying for attention? Bloggers can’t be trusted! Mainstream media knows it! The FCC knows it! We know it ourselves yet refuse to admit it. You know it and “Nic” from My ...
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Paul OFlaherty posted an article on Oflaherty - Oct 14, 2009, 11:13 am
10/GUI Just came across this very interesting video from Clayton Miller about 10/GUI, his vision for an innovative 10 finger multitouch desktop interface. It’s definitely well worth the watch ...
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Paul OFlaherty posted an article on Oflaherty - Oct 9, 2009, 6:03 pm
Matt Cutts demonstrates Google Readers secret ninja mode Easter egg on the Google Webmaster Central Youtube channel. I’m wondering if we should all start being worried that it features ninjas a...
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Paul OFlaherty posted an article on Oflaherty - Oct 9, 2009, 8:59 am
Torvalds, Jobs and Gates. There are some who would say that at least two of the three in this picture do not qualify as being “holy” in anyway, but I’ll let you decide out which 2 fo...
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Paul OFlaherty posted an article on Oflaherty - Oct 7, 2009, 7:19 pm
128-bit Windows 8? The Windows 7 launch parties are soon to be kicking off but Microsoft is already looking to the future and working on 128-bit architecture compatibility for Windows 8 and 9. While...
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Paul OFlaherty posted an article on Oflaherty - Oct 7, 2009, 2:05 pm
All your blogs... I watched the news surface yesterday about the FTC’s guidelines governing endorsements and testimonials and how they now affect bloggers. I read the entire 81 page document (it�...
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Paul OFlaherty posted an article on Oflaherty - Oct 3, 2009, 10:25 am
Trust me! Social media experts, gurus and witchdoctors! You can’t turn a corner on the internet without running into 10 of them. Each and every one of them pimping their own regurgitated brand ...
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Paul OFlaherty posted an article on Oflaherty - Sep 29, 2009, 1:12 pm
I hope this is sarcasm I sincerely hope that this protester was really just demonstrating a penchant for sarcasm and didn’t really want the homo’s devil machine computer destroyed because...
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Paul OFlaherty posted an article on Oflaherty - Sep 26, 2009, 10:49 am
Just in case you were wondering why I never reply to or forward any of your “hilarious” and “cute” emails! (Via Bear). Like this post? Share it: This post ...
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Paul OFlaherty posted an article on Oflaherty - Sep 24, 2009, 12:04 pm
Google really must have a disliking for us Irish or maybe just for me! I was about to do a search today and got as far as typing in “why” when “Google suggest” kicked in and offered me the fo...
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Paul OFlaherty posted an article on Oflaherty - Sep 21, 2009, 10:22 am
Code Since we’ve created Scrw.us and started using our own custom short URLs for our domains we’ve run into a few issues with other WordPress plugins not working quite the way we would like them ...
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Paul OFlaherty posted an article on Oflaherty - Sep 19, 2009, 3:40 pm
Twitter Fail Whale Twitter are looking to improve the user experience by changing how retweets work and while I applaud them for attempting to improve their service, I have two things that I’d like...
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Paul OFlaherty posted an article on Oflaherty - Sep 18, 2009, 11:06 am
My friend Steven Hodson, got hot under the collar this week because posts of his from the Inquisitr weren’t making it on to Techmeme. Steven’s problems weren’t caused by badly timed posts or l...
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Paul OFlaherty posted an article on Oflaherty - Sep 16, 2009, 8:50 am
I just posted about whether Arrington and Calacanis had a falling out that would result in the death of TechCrunch 50, but now it appears it’s been confirmed by  Calacanis himself on his Twitte...
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Paul OFlaherty posted an article on Oflaherty - Sep 16, 2009, 8:31 am
Arrington and Calacanis I know it’s hard to believe a lot of what you see in Loren Feldmans satirical puppet videos but there is sometimes truth buried in them. Especially in this one which fea...
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Paul OFlaherty posted an article on Oflaherty - Sep 15, 2009, 3:36 pm
Your XP Netbook that you just bought isn’t secure. Nor will it ever be. It’s running an 8 year old operating system for which support has been discontinued since April of 2009. There will not be a...
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Paul OFlaherty posted an article on Oflaherty - Sep 14, 2009, 4:50 pm
9 days after I posted about reducing the number of shared links I was posting to Twitter, I received this from a friend via a series of direct messages: Hey Paul, I just wanted to let you know why I ...
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Paul OFlaherty posted an article on Oflaherty - Sep 14, 2009, 3:39 pm
I’ve always believed that blogs were about conversation. You put your ideas out there and people give you feedback. Sometimes they agree, sometimes they disagree, sometimes they end up ranting like...
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Paul OFlaherty posted an article on Oflaherty - Sep 14, 2009, 8:43 am
I came across this while scheduling posts for Daily Shite and it just cracked me up. I don’t know who originally did the image, but if you know please drop me a note in the comments so I can give pr...
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Paul OFlaherty posted an article on Oflaherty - Sep 11, 2009, 5:00 pm
I mentioned our personal URL shortening service Scrw.us earlier this week when I was talking about how services like Bit.ly may fragment the web. Sharing all of our content and the stuff the we come ...
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Paul OFlaherty posted an article on Oflaherty - Sep 11, 2009, 11:31 am
I just wanted to bring your attention to a few minor change I’ve made to the blog this morning. First I’ve turned on the sociable plugin again to make it easier to share and bookmark any posts yo...
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Paul OFlaherty posted an article on Oflaherty - Sep 10, 2009, 11:55 am
Our friend Heather (@Wigenout) pointed us to an image on Facebook yesterday for submission to Daily Shite and while we were checking it out I noticed the advert that you can see on the right hand side...
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Paul OFlaherty posted an article on Oflaherty - Sep 9, 2009, 10:32 am
Having read today that, ubiquitous URL shortening service, Bit.ly is to making its URLs even shorter by introducing "J.MP” (same service, just a redirect) to shave off another 2 characters from ...
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Paul OFlaherty posted an article on Oflaherty - Sep 8, 2009, 1:06 pm
After a few days of intermittent downtime and extreme frustration, all of our sites are working as they should again. Our web host moved our accounts to new servers in order to improve performance b...
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Paul OFlaherty posted an article on Oflaherty - Sep 8, 2009, 9:46 am
I admit that I get wound up a little from time to time and need to vent but not so often as when a spineless, whiney twat like Billy Dennis, the so called Peoria Pundit makes a public swing at me on T...
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Paul OFlaherty posted an article on Oflaherty - Sep 6, 2009, 1:22 pm
I thought I was done making fun of the naive yesterday, who couldn’t understand the simple premise of “Upgrade Now” to protect their self hosted WordPress install, but it would appear that the w...
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Paul OFlaherty posted an article on Oflaherty - Sep 6, 2009, 11:16 am
Manomio’s C64 emulator for the iPhone / iPod Touch has finally been approved by Apple and is available in the App store at $4.99. As a long time C64 fan from back in the day, I’m über excited ab...
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Paul OFlaherty posted an article on Oflaherty - Sep 5, 2009, 3:06 pm
I’ve just seen Mashables post about a security exploit that exists in older versions on Wordpress, versions prior to 2.8.4, and how imperative it is that you upgrade your self hosted WordPress immed...
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Paul OFlaherty posted an article on Oflaherty - Sep 5, 2009, 12:10 pm
Privacy is not a given online. It’s certainly not something that some else should provide and it is your responsibility to make sure you are doing what’s needed to protect yourself. It’s simply...
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Paul OFlaherty posted an article on Oflaherty - Sep 4, 2009, 11:15 am
I’ve been looking at my Twitter feed lately and have noticed that it is becoming rather crowded. There is a heck of a lot of “noise” on my stream. With all the links that I share on a daily bas...
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Paul OFlaherty posted an article on Oflaherty - Sep 2, 2009, 1:04 pm
Alan Turing was a great man. He was code breaker for the British government during World War 2 and an instrumental figure in computer science, yet he suffered the major indignity of being prosecuted b...
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Paul OFlaherty posted an article on Oflaherty - Aug 31, 2009, 2:02 pm
Svetlana Gladkova from Profy posted about “Blog Day” and some of the dirty little secrets bloggers hide/neglect/refuse to share with members of the non-blogging world. One point that stuck with m...
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Paul OFlaherty posted an article on Oflaherty - Aug 31, 2009, 1:20 pm
From Gizmodo comes this video documenting the systematic abuse of child like robots in the Philippines as they are forced to haul little kiddies around the mall in plastic rickshaws. The future of ro...
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Paul OFlaherty posted an article on Oflaherty - Aug 31, 2009, 7:27 am
I’ve seen a number of posts today about the poor RIAA / MPAA and how they’re not making any money, losing billions to illegal pirates and bit torrent, yet when the movie industry alone is on cours...
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Paul OFlaherty posted an article on Oflaherty - Aug 29, 2009, 12:17 pm
If you’re new to the social media world it can be difficult to get into it due to the vast array of people you are likely to encounter. Many / most of these people are pushing their own agenda and h...
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Paul OFlaherty posted an article on Oflaherty - Aug 25, 2009, 12:03 pm
Really I don’t care if you’re not concerned about how many people read your blog. I couldn’t give a monkeys arse about your super minimalist design. I fart in the face of your need for the ultim...
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Paul OFlaherty posted an article on Oflaherty - Aug 18, 2009, 8:01 pm
Recently I was down in Limerick enjoying hotels that happened to have patrons who decided it was cool to swipe the cable to the wireless router (thank you so very much) and in which you could clearly ...
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Paul OFlaherty posted an article on Oflaherty - Aug 14, 2009, 12:20 pm
Wolfenstein 3D I’ve been a Wolfenstein fan since the very beginning, way back in 1992, in fact I’m sure I still have the original knocking around here somewhere. With that in mind, it go...
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