Archive | February, 2009

Irish Internet Users Concerned About Censorship

By on February 28, 2009 in News

A lot of people seem to be concerned about the implications of ISPs being asked to block access to certain websites by private companies. With that in mind several Irish internet users have launched an online campaign to raise awareness – Blackout Ireland. You can read more about the campaign on their site.

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Fedora 9 VPS Now Available

By on February 27, 2009 in Hosting, vps

We’re happy to say that we’re now able to offer Fedora 9 on our VPS hosting platform. If anyone has any questions please let us know. (Yes – we know Fedora 10 is already available and we will offer it as soon as we can)

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IRMA Threatens Irish ISPs

By on February 25, 2009 in Blacknight, Hosting, policy

I don’t want to get into the entire IRMA vs Eircom and IRMA vs ISPs debacle. The only reason I’m even writing this is because I’m getting a bit tired of all the “quotes” of “quotes” and other unclear and misleading things that people have been saying about ISPs over the last few weeks. To [...]

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Show Us Some Loving

By on February 25, 2009 in Blacknight, Marketing

One of our clients was asking me yesterday if we had any “hosted by” or “hosting powered by” type images that they could use on their site. We do, but for some stupid reason they aren’t on our website at the moment.. I’ll see if I can rectify that, but in the meantime here are [...]

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Blacknight Horse On Rampage in Cork #iba09

By on February 22, 2009 in Blacknight

@micheleneylon are you responsible for this? #iba09 Originally uploaded by Robin Blandford I’m not sure who is responsible for this, but it does amuse me. The cut-out is courtesy of MadeinHollywood.ie So who has been abusing our lovely horse? UPDATE: Sorry about the multiple posts. Flickr was throwing an error when I tried to use [...]

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Irish Blog Awards 2009 Best Business Blog

Wow! We Won!

By on February 22, 2009 in Blacknight, Blogging, Events, Hosting, irishblogs

So this humble blog actually won the Best Blog of Business at the Irish Blog Awards last night! I wasn’t in attendance, but I believe George was there to pick up our award. Thanks to the sponsor, RedCardinal and the event organisers While I’m sure there will be plenty of blog posts over the coming [...]

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Irish Blog Awards Nominee 2009

Best of Luck To Everyone Tonight

By on February 21, 2009 in Blacknight, Blogging, Events

Tonight a bunch of Irish bloggers and their friends will be living it up down in Cork at the Irish Blog Awards.I won’t be there, though I will probably follow the event from a distance via Twitter.. Both the company blog (here) and my personal one have been shortlisted, which is nice. Whether we win [...]

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Dragon’s Den Contestants And The Web

By on February 19, 2009 in Hosting, Tips

While I missed the first half of Dragon’s Den (Irish edition) this evening, I was following the chatter on twitter It’s 2009, so most of the entrants have a web presence of some kind. Unfortunately, from what I was able to see, a lot of them experienced issues with their websites both during and shortly [...]

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Irish Blog Awards Finalist 2009

By on February 17, 2009 in Blacknight, Blogging, business, Events

The finalists for the Irish Blog Awards were published last night and we made it into the final list! This blog is a finalist in the business blog category along with:Brightspark, Sabrina Dent, Curious Wines and Nice Day Designs. Best of luck to everyone!

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Horses and Crazy Ideas

By on February 13, 2009 in Blacknight, Competitions

People are strange. It’s always amazes me how they react to things. A carefully thought out article / post will result in at best a half dozen comments, whereas a random musing that gets thrown up on whim manages to attract ten times that number. In any case we have gone over all 60+ comments [...]

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Another Shiny Object For Our Offices

By on February 11, 2009 in Blacknight

We really like shiny objects chez Blacknight. Some “shiny objects” are useful, whereas others just look nice. Well the latest one we got was from Microsoft, as we are now a certified partner: We’re hoping to upgrade our certification level with Microsoft in the coming months when a couple of more technical staff complete a [...]

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