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Today was a reasonably productive day...

No day is every really as productive as I'd like it to be, but today was pretty good!

To start with I finally had a few quiet minutes to myself and was able to book my flights to Sydney for the ICANN meeting. I had tried to book it online, but I couldn't make sense of the times / dates ie. if you leave Dublin on Friday, which day would you arrive in Sydney. Solution was to just ring Trailfinders and let them worry about it. They also gave me a better rate on the ticket than I'd found online, so it was a "win win" situation. Now all I have to do is either persuade the Hilton to give me a better rate or else find a different hotel....

The other bit of progress today was that we finally launched Windows 2008 with IIS7 on our shared hosting platform. We're giving the first 100 signups for a Windows 2008 Minimus plan a massive 20 euro off, so you can get your site hosted on the latest Microsoft server platform for a mere 29.95 for the first year!! (More details here)

Now if only I could work my way through the rest of my todo list...

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If you want to run your own business then you need to work at it.

You cannot expect your business to run itself.

You cannot expect to work "normal" hours.

You cannot expect to work a "normal" working week

If you can't deal with any of the above then simply give up now.

Sure, everyone needs to strike the balance between work and their private life

However, if you're running your own business you need to realise that you cannot think like an employee (conversely your employees won't think like you do either, but that's another discussion)

I'm overjoyed about this one ...

Full details over on the company blog

If you want to publish job listings from TechnicalJobs.ie there are a couple of options open to you.

For the more technically minded the site offers RSS, both global and by job category.

But if, like me, you just want something nice and simple, then you can grab a little Javascript widget

Enjoy!

I don't "do" New Year's resolutions really.

It's far too easy to make resolutions and then simply drop them after a few weeks...

However there is one thing that I have been meaning to do and that is to actually launch sites based on some of the domains I own.

So with that in mind I threw up something really quick on stamps.ie over the Christmas break. I know it's really ugly, but I will sort out the CSS etc., when I get a chance or bribe someone else to make it pretty.

I've several other projects that are in various states of development.. the main problem is finding the time to do something productive with them!

Of course as a domainaholic I've also been acquiring new domains and sites ...

Earlier this evening I purchased Fasterpoint.com, which is a quick and easy way to view the marketplace listings on Sitepoint. I might use the same script to do something with feed.ie if I get a couple of hours...

While testing a few things on our main site I discovered that bookreviews.ie wasn't registered, so I grabbed it (if you want to contribute reviews to either it or filmreviews.ie - let me know!)

Why so many IE domains? Well the simple answer is - why not? Besides, we're doing a special on them for the month of January, so it's a really good time to grab a few!

We've dropped the price on IE domains for the month of January to €19.95 / year ex-vat

Find out more here

I'm really tired of the shenanigans involving the IEDR and the IE namespace, so I wrote this rant.

Feedback welcome (on that site :) )

Steve Jobs has Fake Steve Jobs. Shel Israel has a puppet. Paul Walsh has Walsh Watch.

It seems I've now got the next best thing - my own "wikipedia" page courtesy of Mr Eoin Costello. (He was in the news earlier this week when his hosting company was swallowed up)

I must say I am impressed. I didn't realise that Eoin was such a talented wit and not a bad graphic artist either.

It must have taken a couple of hours to put it all together. So maybe we'll see more of these little works of art now that he isn't distracted by his "booming" business.

Of course if he'd spent more time on his business maybe he would still be a "player" and not another footnote ...

Here's a screenshot of the page in case Mr Costello removes it.

You'll have to excuse the horrible photo, but I haven't had a chance to even plugin my new "toy". It arrived by courier late this morning, but I got caught up in client meetings for most of the afternoon...

For the last couple of years I've been forced to maintain a Windows PC in the office so that I could access AIB's online banking service. While it was possible to "bludgeon" it into working with Ubuntu it was a lot "saner" to use Windows. Fortunately AIB finally upgraded to using a proper JVM recently and made their business banking completely cross-platform and cross-browser (it probably doesn't work with lynx, but that's hardly a good example, is it? :) )

So I've no more need for my Windows desktop.

I would have considered simply rebuilding my existing PC with either pure Ubuntu or a dualboot, but since I've become quite fond of OS X I decided that I'd move to it completely. Of course moving to Apple entirely while an attractive proposition isn't exactly economical, as a decent spec iMac can set you back more than several "normal" PCs.

Thank God for eBay!

I hope to start the migration tomorrow... Or maybe Monday (time permitting!)

I'm currently considering getting a Blackberry or similar device. Much as I love my N95 it's lack of a full keyboard wouldn't make it my ideal choice for email "on the go".

Since we're with Vodafone I naturally thought that checking their site would be a good idea.

How wrong could I be!

There is simply no sane way to see a list of available phones on their site.

Sure. You can lie and say you are a new client and get "a" list, but if you are an existing bill pay client you will end up looking elsewhere in frustration, as the site simply does not work.

You can't see the phones unless you login.

So, you login.

Can you now see the phones? No. That would be far too logical. Not only does it ask you to login (even though the top right of the page shows that you are already logged in) but it starts asking you irrelevant questions about upgrades.
Did I say I wanted an upgrade?
Do I even care if I am eligible?
No.
All I want to know is what phones are available and roughly how much they cost.
Is that too much to ask?

Sorry about the rant!

I feel calmer now! 

I think I'll just head over to ebay instead...