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Interesting Gmail features and addons Part 1 »

Here is the first part of a post on the collection of Gmail features, scripts, gadgets and plugins I have tried out that I have found useful and that I thought I would share with you.
Task Lists

Remember the Milk is my to-do list manager of choice and I was delighted to learn they had a [...]

Scary Bush to Obama image morph »

Thanks to @patrickphelan for sending this on; click on the image to open it full size. Freaky, but strangely hard to look away…

Newstalk Nation Survey- Would you participate? »

Newstalk are running a nationwide survey at the moment in an effort to guage the feeling of the listener on a range of subjects.
The results of the first round of questions was published this week, in which it emerged that 48% of Irish workers would take a pay cut if it meant it would get [...]

Fun stuff from the web – 21/01/09 »

Here are a few links I came across today:
First sight of the Nokia N97 available 31/03/09 from play.com for appox €531. CES vid here.
Problogger has an interesting blog post on creating your blogging plan for 2009.
An example of genius marketing in the papers today.
The inventor of the Doner Kebab passed away aged 87.. what an [...]

Obama the Geek »

Seeing as it’s inauguration day I thought I’d post on the new US President and celebrate the geek within.
Once he was elected, he was forced to give up the Blackberry to which he was much attached for security reasons: “I’m still clinging to my Blackberry. They’re going to pry it out of my hands”.
Apparently President [...]

Be careful what you say..? »

Just as I’m about to get cracking on writing my first post, I came across this link from Problogger on Twitter which made me think a little about what is said online and the effect it can have.
The story is about a guy who, on his travels to give a business presentation in Memphis, twitted [...]

Hello world! »

Welcome to my blog and to my first post. I am a software developer from Cork with a love for all things nerdy. I have started up this blog to share with you some of my thoughts and opinions and some of the interesting stuff I have come across on the web.
Some of the stuff [...]