CGarvey.ie - The personal website of Cathal Garvey

Update: Stats now shown for winners and short-listed (of their respective category), and the overall “Grand Prix” winner.

@donncha and @micheleneylon tweeted about the stats of the blogging technology behind this year’s Irish Blog Awards, organised by Damien Mulley. It got me thinking about the stats of the software used by all those short-listed in the blog awards. Here they are!

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WordPress v2.7 uses an older version of Magpie RSS (v0.51) which has some bugs that may prevent your RSS feed displaying in your WordPress blog/theme.

I happen to use KB Advanced RSS Widget, on the IrelandOffline site, but I believe most RSS widgets/plugins for WordPress use.

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Rather than blog posts for each .ie price comparison update I do, I’ve moved it to a permanent home at http://cgarvey.ie/blog/ie-price-comparison/ where you’ll find the latest update from now on.

I’ve been doing quite a bit of burning matches, old camera footage and some TV shows on to DVD. I edit them on my Mac first (usually using iMovie for importing DV, MPEG Streamclip for cropping/conversion and iDVD to package it up). However getting reliable DL DVDs to work on my MacBook’s Superdrive has proven quite difficult. I usually end up writing to an image and burning that image on my PC’s Pioneer 110D drive (a lot more tolerant of blank media).

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Irish web awards, until now, have been steeped in controversy over their high entry fees, questionable judging, and strict/expensive entry criteria (e.g. Golden Spiders).

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