Darren is asking bloggers to fill in his survey. Go on you might win an iPod shuffle.

This is my cycle lane to work in the Morning. Its on Mobhi Road just outside the Na Fianna GAA club.

Yes, if you manage to negotiate the telegraph pole, that is a waste bin behind it.

So things I learnt while moving my blog,

• Cedant.com cap all PHP requests to 20 Seconds of execute time which means when my shared host was highly loaded my readers were seeing php failures (this was what prompted the move)
• GoDaddy.com use a brain damaged PhpMyAdmin with no import tab so I couldn’t move my blog there as my 16MB backup was well over their 2MB limit for SQL uploads
• Michele Neylon works way too late into the night and as a result was able to fix all my problems when I finally registered joedrumgoole.com with blacknight.ie at 2.00pm am on Sunday morning.

So a big shout out to Michele for all his help. I should also add that ftp uploads to my site now rip along as my host is only milliseconds away. I’m still settling in, so if you see any funnies drop me a line.

I’m  moving my blog to a new hosting provider so expect some outageness over the next few days.

I have (again) in my wallet a nice lumpy card key (and of course separate picture ID) for entry to the Digital Hub. This is the latest in a long line of lumpy, (expensive, I’m sure) highly loosable ID cards I have carried in my life. Well surely its time to slap this kind of system on peoples mobile phones with a little Bluetooth magic to trigger the card.

I know mobile devices as a development platform are a  nightmare, but so are bespoke card key solutions.  The mobile vendors are starting to standardise (slowly), so maybe now is the right time…

Here is a feature I want on my next phone; The ability to send it a secret ID via SMS that switches it from its current mode to normal (audible when ringing) mode. I’m sick of hunting for lost phones in silent mode.

Bad Guy and Good Guy

Originally uploaded by Joe Drumgoole.

Dig the heavy duty weaponry…

Bad Guy and Good Guy

Originally uploaded by Joe Drumgoole.

Dig the heavy duty weaponry…

I love Clay Shirky’s writing and this short pithy article on HDTV is no different. Check this paragraph out,

This is the season of the HDTV gotcha. After Christmas, people are starting to understand that they didn’t buy a nicer TV, they bought only one part of a Total Controlled Content Delivery Package. Got an HDTV monitor and a new computer for Christmas? You might as well have gotten a Fabergé Egg and a framing hammer for all the useful ways you can combine the two presents.

PutPlace is raising a BES round. If you are interested in investing and have 31K + change to invest drop me a line. BES entitles you claim 40% of the investment back from the government as a tax break.