..is the confusion between the equals operator in maths and the assignment operator in most programming languages.

Swing over and check the man out.

Here is an interview (its a podcast) I did before the TV4B gig. A little more disjointed and a few clangers but at least you don’t get blinded by my dazzling forehead. Scroll forward to minute 00:28:55 to get to the start of the PutPlace bit.

http://st1.streamzilla.jet-stream.nl/tv4b/StroboScopeLoader.php?movieName=5197/5197582446615258d823a.flv&movieWidth=432&movieHeight=339&autoStart=1&playerType=2

Relevant NextWeb Locations on a handy Google Map.

Dell the online is currently looping on this page for all queries regarding their servers. I didn’t bother to check anywhere else.

Fantastic.

Quick where can I short Dell shares?
(Update : Still down this morning!)

I just rang Dell and of course their sales line is oblivious to the problem. They then connected me to the technical help desk where an automated attendant wanted a service tag before proceeding.

This is a business that is predicated on Web Sales? Oy Vay!

I’m at the NextWeb Conference on Friday.  Drop me a line if you fancy meeting up for a pint on Thursday or Friday.

A desktop and or laptop PC that just boots straight in Xen or VMWare. No windows, no Linux, just a pure virtual machine. Extra points for giving me the option to install a range of operating systems into that environment at config/purchase time.

Karlin gets the good juice on why Mary Lou didn’t get in. Though Cyprian’s election does expose one of those nasty anomalies of PR.

Well we did it. This morning I sent out the first batch of private beta invitations for PutPlace. We expect to roll out invitations each Monday for the next few weeks and hopefully we should have sent out an invitation to everybody who registered to date within the next month or so.Big shout out to John, Darren and Gearoid for their trojan efforts in getting the beta to this point over the last month or so.  Also thanks to our valiant first run testers, Matt, Ivan and Sean.

This first version does backup (Windows only, Mac to follow shortly) as we reckon getting your stuff safe is a priority for most people. We have most of the heavy lifting done to allow publishing to places like Flickr and YouTube as we expect that to emerge in the next month or so.

Please register for the beta if you haven’t done so already…

Joe Drumgoole

CEO