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IPv6 enabled

Gandi started offering native IPv6 connectivity in their Paris datacenter at the beginning of the year and I finally did the remaining work to enable IPv6 on all domains hosted here. Welcome to the future! :-)

Now if only cablecom would start supporting IPv6 too…

Feedburner migration

I’ve switched the RSS feed to Feedburner (mostly so I can play with the admin interface). Depending on which software you use to subscribe, this might cause a bunch of old items to show up as unread – my apologies for that.

I’m not dead

Seriously, you should know by now that my blog tends to lapse for months at a time. Anyway, I’ve recently been under a constant flood of spam comments – I’ve now installed the (very cool) reCAPTCHA plugin. So, go ahead and comment, you’ll be helping to digitize books :)

In other news, Dublin weather was [...]

Update

I’m not dead, just been very busy. I returned to Dublin at the end of April, then had to find a place to live (got a nice one bedroom close to the city center/Temple Bar). I went to France (and Switzerland and Italy) last weekend to visit two friends of mine that are studying in [...]

Comment spam

Looks like I’ve been hit pretty heavily by comment spammers, while I wasn’t paying attention. I just had to delete about 200 spam comments (some were caught by WordPress, some weren’t). The result is that posting comments will be a little more annoying now (and will require my approval) — until I find another solution [...]

Just to make it clear…

… now that I’m at Google I’m bound by a (fairly standard) non-disclosure clause of my contract, so don’t come here expecting inside details about the next great thing or anything. I’m probably going to err on the side of caution and not even talk about things that I am allowed to talk to, just [...]

Hello world!

Welcome to my new blog. I’ve had blogs from time to time before, but they all died because of boredom and lack of content.

The main reason for starting a new one is moving to Dublin to work for Google. I’ll be providing info about that here, instead of spamming the interested people with emails [...]