Eset anti-virus has been running like clockwork for me since I installed it 6 months ago. Until today that is. My tray icon turned orange and I kept getting warnings that my protection was not up to date. Attempts to get the latest update failed with the scary and mysterious error message: “Undocumented Serious Error [...]

I just upgraded from WordPress 1.5.2 to 2.0.3, the latest stable version. I would love to report that it was all up and running effortlessly in a few clicks, but there were quite a few niggles! I had to head off to do something half way through upgrading which is not recommended! Aside from that, [...]

On passing another couple on the scenic coastline walk between Dalkey and Killiney: “I can reply to e-mails OK…. I just can’t instigate an e-mail” Well, it made us chuckle anyway…

I use the Google web search API a lot in a certain application. It has been good as gold for ages but since the New Year it has gone ape. It works intermittently at best, and even putting a 60 second lag between queries does not seem to do any good. The infamous “502 bad [...]