Dec
31
The wiki year
Filed Under Wikis, Weblogs and Outliners | 1 Comment
Although wikis have been around for quite a long time, each of the last few years has seen significant growth in awareness and usage, and also in money flow. 2006 has continued this trend: ‘wikipedia’ and ‘wiki’ both feature in Google’s Top 10 Searches of the year, Alexa shows Wikipedia rising to the 12th most [...]
Dec
30
Welcome to Estonia
Filed Under Estonia, Northern Ireland | 2 Comments
Having driven most of my friends insane over the last few years with my continuous ranting about what a terrible place the UK was becoming under a government who was seemingly dedicated to overthrowing three hundred years of rights in the course of a single decade, I decided I’d like to try living somewhere else [...]
Dec
27
They Work For You!
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Late last week I found myself stuck in Christmas traffic, taking almost 45 minutes to get home from the Lisburn Road. Fortunately I was able to distract myself by listening to a debate on the radio about the upcoming water charges in Northern Ireland. For reasons that are already known to some, and will shortly [...]