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Show me the money! Recorded on my cell phone, I talk about how Technorati has become irrelevant, how much money the average blogger makes their blog, opening unsolicited emails and finally naming and shaming companies which use human spammers. Links Blogging is x3 times bigger than porn. My ass! How much money do you earn from [...]

There’s not much to say about him. He’s drawing, he’s illustrating, he’s getting into advertising and also identity and branding. Well… se it for yourselfs. More of his works can be found on his site.

Considering that for the next while I will be mobile, moving from house to house and country to country I felt yesterday that it was time for me to address one of the big issues which was outstanding with this blog, namely that it sucked in a mobile browser. So, with that in mind yesterday I [...]

I’ve finally taken the time to build a way for you to see all the vidcasts I do in one location.  From now on the only URL you have to remember to get your daily dose of O’Flaherty is live.oflaherty.dk It doesn’t matter if I’m on Fuelmyblog Live, The Mr. Business Golf Show, or anything else, [...]

Yes, that's right. Today you get 2 quotes for the price of one because they're both incredibly boneheaded on the same subject: Budget 2008.First up, Mr Stingy:“Sir John A. Macdonald used to say ‘look a little ahead my friends.' And if we look a little bit ahead, we see how morally deficient it is for us to live high on the hog now and pass our debt on to the next generation,” Mr. Flaherty told a breakfast audience in Toronto.I suppose you might to have to go back to Sir John A's time to find a period when Conservatives weren't spending like drunken sailors while the Liberals had to bail them out and sober them up later.And then there's Stephane:'We'll find a way to not defeat the government'I've misplaced my Dion to catnip translator but what immediately comes to mind is "I'll get

Via The Star: The finance department estimates that once this year’s bounty is spent, the treasury will be all but bare for the next two years with tiny surpluses of $1.4 billion and $1.3 billion, not counting the annual $3 billion set-aside for debt repayment.Flaherty’s challenge is to the make meagre offering of loaves and fishes he has on hand appear like a banquet so that if the government falls, he can not only paint the opposition as irresponsible spenders but his budget as an investment in future good times.And it seems he's already performed one miracle:OTTAWA–The Conservative government will disclose tomorrow, when it tables its budget, that it has on hand at least $1 billion more in spending money than it had anticipated, sources have told The Canadian Press.Well, there is

It’s all over and now I’m officially off of the single roster. That’s right. Since my last blog post Pusle and I finally tied the knot in Ejby church, Denmark and have enjoyed a wonderful 2 weeks in Ireland as well. It’s hard to summarize how I feel about it all except to say that I’ve never been happier. I was so nervous on the morning of the wedding. That’s not actually true,  because I didn’t start getting really nervous until 20 minutes before the ceremony while I was standing in the church greeting folks as they walked in. In the last 5 minutes before Pusle walked in I was so nervous was shaking. I’ve always thought that Pusle is beautiful but nothing prepared me for how stunning she was when she walked into the church and made her way down the isle. I’m not exaggerating when I say that there was a collective gasp when she walked into the church and it took everything I had in me not to start crying on the spot. I&rsqu

It’s all over and now I’m officially off of the single roster. That’s right. Since my last blog post Pusle and I finally tied the knot in Ejby church, Denmark and have enjoyed a wonderful 2 weeks in Ireland as well. It’s hard to summarize how I feel about it all except to say that I’ve never been happier. I was so nervous on the morning of the wedding. That’s not actually true,  because I didn’t start getting really nervous until 20 minutes before the ceremony while I was standing in the church greeting folks as they walked in. In the last 5 minutes before Pusle walked in I was so nervous was shaking. I’ve always thought that Pusle is beautiful but nothing prepared me for how stunning she was when she walked into the church and made her way down the isle. I’m not exaggerating when I say that there was a collective gasp when she walked into the church and it took everything I had in me not to start crying on the spot. I&rsqu

All this talk of Technorati possibly entering the widgets game got me looking at WidgetBox and YourMinis today. WidgetBox First off let me say that both sites are great and both offer a vast array of widgets but, for my money, YourMinis has the edge as WidgetBox makes it too much of a chore to get your widget off of the service and on to your site of choice. The problem with WidgetBox is the need to install a panel on the site you wish to install widgets on before you can actually install any widgets. I tried to install a widget I created for this blog on my MySpace profile. After creating the widget I thought it would be a simple matter of simply copying and pasting the code into my profile. Unfortunately this was not the case. I tried to use their system to automatically add the widget to my profile but it didn’t work. So next I tried to add the code manually. That code did not work on MySpace. I then tried creating a static page in Dreamweaver, embed

Rex “Duff” Dixon of Technically Speaking really liked the policy I wrote for O’Flaherty today which covers disclosure, privacy and commenting. Rex actually dubbed it the “O’Flaherty Doctrine”. You can see the full policy here, or follow the “Site Policies” link in the sidebar. Anyway, as I said Rex liked it and is going to use it on his own site. In fact he went as far as to say that other blogger’s should use it as well. Technically Speaking, I think all bloggers should adopt this doctrine or code of ethics or policy. No twinkie sheriff’s badge required! Now, I don’t think my policies will work for all bloggers! I think the particular set I’ve policies I’ve written fit what I’m doing with this site, and may not fit other sites. I do think that they are a good jumping off point for putting your own sites policy together. So to make Rex happy, I’ve put together a little Zip file which contains a cop

As I’ve said previously, I can’t comply with Tim O’Reilly and his Code of Conduct, and there’s no way I’m putting one of those dinky little badges on my site. So, today I have created a “policies page” on O’Flaherty, which contains the following: Disclosure policy detailing how I handle paid reviews, affiliate links and associations with companies and products. Privacy policy detailing information collected by this site and by various 3rd party services on used on the site. Comments policy explaining exactly how I handle comments on this blog and what I consider to be acceptable. The policies are in plain English! No legalize or voodoo mumbo jumbo, so they are easy to read and there should be little ambiguity as to where I stand. I feel it is important for all my readers to know exactly where they stand when they visit this site. It’s also important that these policies are in place, so that, in the event of a dispute, I can simply

Greatfirewallofchina.org is reporting that O’Flaherty (and the entire oflaherty.dk) is being blocked in China.    Aim of this website is to be a watchdog and keep track of which and how many  or how many times sites are censored. Help to keep the censorship transparent. Each blocked website will automatically be added to the great firewall on the homepage. Wow! Okay, the program does say that there may be other reasons why my sites isn’t available, but if this is true, then damn! How many Chinese readers am I loosing? What did I do annoy the Chinese censors? Who cares! Censorship is wrong! How will these poor people have happy and fulfilled lives without reading this blog or listening to my podcast? Is your site blocked? Via Zedomax.com blocked, censor, Censorship, China, GreatFirewallofChina, internet This post originally appeared on Paul OFlahertys Technology Blog. © 2007 Paul OFlaherty Link to original post: No O'Flaherty in China? I'm

I first met Ian Flaherty when visiting him at his humble studio - workshop on Lavender Hill Clapham London. A Scouser by birth and a master of cufflink design and manufacture, he guided me through all its processes from inception to shirt cuff. Knowing this I'd happily pay £65.00 for a pair of his Swarovski cufflinks, "what's the value of art"? Although he occupies the same arena as Paul Smith, Duchamp and Simon Carter he's not in competition with them, his designs are uniquely original and that's refreshing in this day and age of copycats. You can find his designer cufflinks in British high street stores, America, Japan and Australia, "I thought it was too hot down under to even wear a shirt" in fact Australia is one of Ian's biggest export marketsIan is happy being labelled as the quiet achiever, a little British bleeder carving out a niche in the fashion retail rock face.