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Category: Blogging

  • Upgraded to 1.5

    Still sorting some style problems but overall the upgrade went smoothly.

  • New theme

    I am still debating an upgrade to WordPress 1.5 BETA, and will be using Tom’s advice on the issue. I have also stolen his CSS ๐Ÿ™‚

  • The Eason Jordan story

    Michelle Malkin has a great review of the entire story, beginning to end…

  • Irish Times blog article follow up

    Robin O’Brien-Lynch’s article in the Irish Times has sparked some controversy in the Irish blogosphere. In general, people have been taken aback by what some considered to be negative comments in the article. Bluire is not happy at all… And anyway, who is Robin Oย’Brien to be telling the Irish Blogging community that we need…

  • Hewitt mention

    Hugh is great at following up on what bloggers are reading his new book, including linking to me when all I did was mention that I had got the book! An instant increase in visitors resulted. Interesting the book is proving very popular, going on this story at least: “Trying to kick a persistent book-buying…

  • CNN Executive Eason Jordan Resigns Post Over Remarks

    Another scalp for the blogosphere, I am not sure the witch hunt was entirely necessary, but the pressure put on by the blogosphere was enormous. Instapundit has a roundup on the story.

  • Lots of blogs but few talking about Irish matters

    …or so claims Robin O’Brien-Lynch in the Irish Times today. To be honest he has a point. It is something I said to Richard back at the blog party, by covering mainly Irish politics he is the first blogger in Ireland to do so. Slugger does cover Irish politics, but not Southern stuff do as…

  • 500,000 visits

    My sitemeter passed the half a million mark today, in almost exactly two years. Wohoo! Though it should be noted most of those people dropped in from Google or MSN, and then left. Oh and a sizeable portion came looking for controversial videos, or stuff relating to Eminem. But then I do make all of…

  • More new books

    Recently had delivered from Amazon, Dan Gillmor, We the Media Hugh Hewitt, Blog Two blogging bibles! Update: Hello Hewitt readers! ๐Ÿ™‚ I will be writing up a review of his book shortly. Feel free to look around this Irish blog.

  • Down

    Something perhaps to do with spam, or the under the bonnet stuff of SQL and WordPress is causing the server to fail. I will be looking into it and perhaps upgrading to 1.5. More soon.