WordPress is Arstechnica "Web application of the year"

WordPress won an award!

WordPress is the most prominent rising star of weblog software, completely free and with a large and active community.

Several other notable categories, including the infamous “Thumbs Down” award going to ATI for their dreadful Linux driver support. gets an honourable mention in this category too. Looks like it’s not the place to go to for Linux solutions! Try the ILUG instead!

Parish Church, Sneem Co. Kerry

This is the Parish Church in the village of Sneem. Outside were several pyramids built by James Scanlon in 1987. Nearby is a statue of Isis and a plague underneath saying:

A GIFT FROM THE PEOPLE OF EGYPT
“ISIS”
TO THE PEOPLE OF IRELAND

PRESENTED BY THE AMBASSADOR OF EGYPT
H.E. HUSSEIN MESHARAFA
10TH JULY, 1993

Starting the year right..

Lots of photographic links I’d like to read up while I have time!

That Spam Problem

Every blog on this machine now has the the spam words from my blog appended to their own!
Blog authors here should hopefully see a major decrease in the number of spam comments and trackbacks they have to moderate as I’m fairly diligent in updating my word list!
More on spam trackbacks to come later including mangled links to some of my content that was robbed to create a spam weblog. Thanks guys – just the motivation I needed to update my spam fight! nah nah nah! 😛