Steve Flinter’s blog

Joe Drumgoole’s start-up putplace got a great mention on Read/Write Web a few days ago, nicely co-inciding with their public launch.

This is a screencast about a user’s difficulties and indeed extreme frustration with using OmniFocus.
Absolutely hilarious - check it out.
With thanks to Daring Fireball.

Silicon Republic is reporting that the National Digital Research Centre (NDRC) has just funded its first tranche of projects.
There’s nothing on the NDRC website at the moment, but I presume that the announcement there will follow shortly. NDRC is an interesting body - it’s a private company, wholly owned by the Government, and set [...]

By way of Damien and Eoin, I’ve learned that Prof. Ferdinand von Prondzynski of Dublin City University has started his own blog.
This is, as far as I know, the first Irish University president blogger, but hopefully we’ll see many (or at least six) more.

In my last post, I mentioned that I was considering moving back to WordPress. We’ll I’ve gone ahead and done it.
Unfortunately, mephisto was getting too frustrating to use, and in particular the lack of a webservice API to allowing blogging clients to post made it untenable to continue.
To effect the port I followed the [...]

Couple of links saved for future reference:

some WP rails models
Convert mephisto to WP with a controller

I’m certainly not the only one dissatisfied with Mephisto. I like the idea of Mephisto more than the realisation of it. I use WordPress for a bunch of other sites/blogs that I run, and feel that it’s a [...]

After Apple’s triumphant launch of the iPhone 3G yesterday, o2 Ireland have their announced support for it from July 11. So far so good – can’t wait.
The only fly in the ointment appears to be the very crappy data limits that attach to all of the plans: 1GB per month. Quote:

All iPhone tariffs [...]

TechCentral.ie posts an entry on the collaboration between the TCD GV2 guys in the SFI-funded Metropolis project and the Central Remedial Clinic.
The story is also carried by Silicon Republic and Electric News Network.