As a budding entrepreneur and a member of the web community I attended the Dublin Web Summit last night in the Chartered Accountants Ireland building on Pearse Street. The summit had a good line up of speakers, including Michael Birch, Bebo founder, and Ray Nolan, a home grown success story with HostelWorld.
O2 just called me and wanted to check if I wanted to change my monthly phone set up, change rate and all that. I keep a fairly close eye on what I'm doing on my phone and make sure that I already am on the best rate, which they told me again, always nice to know I'm on top of things! But then the following happened:
Following on from The Spine Clinic, I recently updated PhysioCare's website for them, at http://physio.ie. The website is a Drupal base (my CMS of choice, my Drupal-dojo is strong), as with any Drupal site, there are lots of modules in there too.
I just spent a few hours fine-tuning the portfolio button you see on the top of the homepage. When you click that button now, the page will drop down, and new section fills in the empty space. In this new section, there is a showcase of some of the websites I have developed.
A few months back, when the two main irish banks had share counted in the tens of cents, I was looking at their reports, likely losses, and all that stuff, and I made a decision to buy AIB shares, if they hit my price. I think I set it at around 25 cents a share.
