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I'm delighted to announce that the IE zone rebuilds are now more frequent.
The new zone rebuild times are:
10:00, 12:00, 17:00 and 22:00
AND it is set to rebuild 7 days a week, 365 days a year!
This is a major improvement for IE domain holders, as now updates, changes and new registrations will be processed much more efficiently.
As we mentioned previously, we are one of the sponsors of the Irish Internet Association's Congress, which takes place this year in Dublin's Croke Park.
Full details of the event may be found here
If you would like to avail of a 20% discount on booking simply use the coupon code: Congress2008
As we're sponsors of the event some of our staff should be around during the day, so keep an eye out for them!
Here at Blacknight we take our coffee very seriously.
I recently decided that we needed to get a slightly beefier coffee machine. The one we had been using for the last few months was fine, but it was time to upgrade.
Since I'm half Italian and have always had a certain fixation with good quality coffee it was only natural that I'd look at Gaggia and similar marques.
The machine I opted for in the end is a Gaggia Syncrony which takes beans or ground coffee.
Since we recently imported about 20 kg of fairtrade coffee beans our small little coffee grinder was under a lot of pressure, so a machine that did its own grinding solved two problems:
- ease of use
- dosage
One of the things that's really nice about the new machine is that you can re-program it so that the dosage of coffee and water is exactly the way you want it.
So expect to have very hyper Blacknight people answering phones over the next few days!
It's amazing what designers come up with at times!
Mouse over it to see what it's all about ....
I never thought I'd be putting Ubuntu in the office fridge, but that's exactly what I've done today.
Ubuntu cola is a fair trade certified cola drink and it has a cool name, so we got a case of it for the office.
Working for us may not be be healthy (you sit at a PC all day) but it can be fun !
For the last few months we have been regular advertisers in a number of UK magazines including Linux Format.
Print advertising is an interesting "game". You can spend a fortune and reap no return or spend very little and see your sales jump over night.
For the first few months of our advertising "run" in Linux format we didn't do anything really "special" with our ads. The ads we ran were the same as any of the ads we'd run in other publications. While I thought this was a good thing on one level I also thought it would be nice to do something a little bit different for the specific demographic of Linux Format (click to enlarge):
I've no idea where Alan, who does our print ads, found the penguin, but it brought a smile to my face.
If you'd like to be in with a chance of getting a year's VPS hosting for free, check out the Web 2.0 Ireland blog.
They've recently redone their site's design, so they're running a logo competition.
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