Christmas is over and the new year brings a whole new horizon of wonderful exciting things to stick 2012 after (or before). So since the "Extraordinary Elsmores" have set the dates for UKLUG 2012 to be 3-4 September, it seemed like a good idea to arrange the 2nd Big Blogger Dander for Dosh around the same time - currently we are looking at the 25th August or the 1st September.
Now the 2011 Dander for Dosh raised over £3000.00 for the Famine In East Africa - which was great and we want to raise even more this year! So we are making this years effort an open invitation to everyone and anyone mad enough to do it.
You don't have to be a geek, a blogger or even have any interest in clipboards to join in. Come along and join Eileen Fitzgerald and myself on a 26 mile dander in the Irish Countryside followed by a slap up meal and drinkies. You will need to be is reasonably fit (I am doing it so you do not have to be "that" fit) have a good pair of socks, walking boots (not shoes!), a good waterproof jacket and a sense of humour (as Eileen will tell you my jokes deteriorate from 5 miles onward) oh and if you have one a Kilt.
This year's charity has yet to be decided but regardless of what that is you do not have to raise money whatever we settle on. You can raise cash for your own favourite charity at home or abroad. All we ask is that you raise money, lots and lots of money and have a really good time doing it!
The other reason we are putting this out there amongst you now is because it does take time to build up to a 26 mile dander. It is not as tough as running a marathon but it is 10+ hours of walking, there may be blisters and sweat rashes in awkward places! We are telling you this in January because you will have 7 months to prepare which is loads of time!
Eileen is out recceing suitable routes in the West of Ireland right now and we will announce the route as soon as we know -be assured it will be beautiful and not just because I will be there in my Dandering Kilt.
We realise that things are a bit vapoury at the minute but we plan to have things firmed up in the next few weeks and we would like to have a rough guess as to the number of people that are interested in joining us. You don't have to make a firm commitment right now but if you are interested in giving the Big Blogger Dander For Dosh 2012 a go it would be great if you could drop me a comment on this blog post or an Email to mcdonaghs [at] utvinternet[dot]com and we can keep you up to date with developments.
Challenge yourself in 2012 come and join us on the Big Blogger Dander For Dosh 2012 !
BLUG 2012 Antwerp thanks and mildly antisocial thoughts
Sun, Mar 25th 2012 5:38p Steve McDonagh I am returned from Antwerp and the 2 days of tech, sessions, chocolate, smiles, laughter and a beer called "Bollocka" ... yes I attended BLUG 2012
I got home yesterday and have had 24 hours to review in my own mind the event and the one word that resonates in my memory is "community".
I can say without fear of contradiction that there were no negatives to report. Theo and the team of willing helpers put on a fantastic 2 days of super speakers with lots of cutting edge tip, tricks and [read] Keywords: collaboration
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A classic example of Sharp Practice on the Internet
Wed, Feb 22nd 2012 4:45p Steve McDonagh Now readers you will know that I am
(a) getting on in years
(b) prone to grumpiness
(c) do not like folk that treat the Internet as their exclusive Honey Pot to pillage as they see fit.
On to the meat of this post I came across via a fellow yellow geek this site http://www.medhelpline.co.uk
Now a word or two of explanation. NHS Direct is a UK government run web site and hot line that you can ring cheaply from anywhere in the UK if you have a medical problem that you want to research o [read] Keywords: blogger
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At last!!! the Standard IP.AC QOS Standard *PHEW*
Fri, Feb 3rd 2012 5:11a Steve McDonagh Network Working Group D. Waitzman
Request for Comments: 2549 IronBridge Networks
Updates: 1149 1 April 1999
Category: Experimental
IP over Avian Carriers with Quality of Service
Status of this Memo
This memo defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet
community. It does not specify an Internet standard of any kind.
Discussion and suggestions for improvement are requested.
Distribution of this memo is unlimited.
Copyright Notice
Copyright (C) The Internet Society (1999). All Rig [read] Keywords: blogger
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2012 Big Bloggers Dander for Dosh - Invitation!
Wed, Jan 25th 2012 4:44p Steve McDonagh He ho gentle readers!
Christmas is over and the new year brings a whole new horizon of wonderful exciting things to stick 2012 after (or before). So since the "Extraordinary Elsmores" have set the dates for UKLUG 2012 to be 3-4 September, it seemed like a good idea to arrange the 2nd Big Blogger Dander for Dosh around the same time - currently we are looking at the 25th August or the 1st September.
Now the 2011 Dander for Dosh raised over £3000.00 for the Famine In East Africa - which [read] Keywords: blogger
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Designing for the Colour Blind
Wed, Dec 21st 2011 4:33p Steve McDonagh Today I was whinging about getting yet another email, nothing odd in getting emails you may think, however for me as a colour blind person, sending me an email that is written in a colour I cannot see properly just ends up as being grey and if the colour is a bright colour it is a light gray on a white background. This is deeply deeply annoying so I tweeted my discomfort and sent a polite but firm email to the sender asking them to send emails to me in a format that I would easily read. My twee [read] Keywords: blogger
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"Pain in the Arse" problem found in 853 client pre-roll out testing
Fri, Dec 16th 2011 4:38a Steve McDonagh During Lotus Client testing of 853 we have come across a problem that it is perhaps wise to be aware of.
If you have the following set of circumstances 1. You have laid out a forms elements in a table 2. You display the form in a Frameset, page or Dialog box 3. You have not explicitly set a Background Colour in all the cells of the table 4. Your First cell in the table has an explicit Background Colour set
This happens
The background colour of the first cell in the table is inherited by al [read] Keywords: lotus
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jQuery 1.7 Event Delegation.. Gitanes and whisling at girls are they walk by
Tue, Dec 13th 2011 5:33p Steve McDonagh In the wonderful world of JS event listeners cost memory.
Lots and lots of memory!
In today's shiney shiney click,drag swipe an pinch world has a whole heap of event listeners floating around smoking cheap ciggarettes, whistling at the girls and generally making your web site perform badly. But all is not lost jQuery provides some really easy methods for handling event
listeners efficiently through the wonders of event delegation.
In a bit of an extreme example but hey we are Domino Deve [read] Keywords: domino
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Ye Godz TheTroubledGeek.com gets an email!
Sun, Dec 4th 2011 1:09p Steve McDonagh It was many moons ago that awesome team of Fabulous Francie and Professor Ignatius Gonad IV were called upon by a member of the liaty to answer one of their problems. Sadly the domain is no longer active ... it is a long story which I may be allowed to tell some day when they lift the court orders. However the questioner got around this knowing that I was a close friend of Ignatius Gonad and knew I that would be able to contact him and sent me the email and I am very glad to be able to reproduc [read] Keywords: collaboration
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