Category: Blogging

Tom Cosgrave has returned. Three cheers!

I am off to Boston this month for a week long visit, and wondered if anyone out there (including my readers) knew some bloggers in Boston I could meet up with for dinner and/or beers. I have been to Boston before briefly, but hope to have a better look around this time.

Well after some downtime due to a move of hosts, I appear to be finally back working. If you find any problems please let me know.

Dan Drezner has a good round up of a debate in the blogosphere about itself. Jack Shafer’s column on Slate is especially worth reading. So, when newspaper reporters bellyache about shoot-from-the-hip bloggers who don’t fully investigate the paper trail before writing a story or double-check their facts before posting, they’re telling a valuable truth. Bad…

Tired of having to fill out registration forms to access content, like that on the New York Times? I like this handy extension for firefox that uses a database of registration details to save you having to remember yours. Just right click on the form and it will fill it in itself. Bugmenot rocks.

Apologies for the lack of posts, some exams coming up this week. Posting will resume as normal thereafter.

I know at least some readers dislike ads placed on my entries, so please forgive the extra ad placements while I test out layouts and CTR’s.

Yes I watch it, and I really do dislike Pete Burns. And how entertaining is George Galloway in a leotard dancing around like a robot? Yes, very!

The newly formed UCC Politics Society has a website, and guess who hosts it and put it up? Yea. Using WordPress 2.0 for now, will be updating the template shortly. There is also one more person in Ireland blogging because of it…lol. Isn’t that right Jonathan? The bug spreads. Any suggestions for a header picture…

I am trying to decide on a nice new image for the top of the blog, for the moment I am using a pic I stole off Rymus, though I have cropped images of my own at the ready. Perhaps I should let my readers decide what looks best, as long as there is a…