[Dan Walmsley]

To bring you up to speed: A lovely young man called Francis tried to recruit me into shameless pyramid scheme ACN, and I just sent him an email asking him to consider whether they’re an organisation worth being part of.
Now, he’s written back. Get ready, folks, for the selective memory of the truly cornered.
Hi Dan,
I [...]

I sent Francis a letter. It was the least I could do.

Hi Francis,
Thanks for your time yesterday, but I have to tell you honestly that ACN seems like a bit of a dead end for someone with your skills. As someone who has graduated from an entrepreneurship program, you should know that ACN’s business model [...]

So I was at a seminar the other day on starting a business, and a (very) young guy called Francis approached me afterwards and struck up a conversation. He seemed sincere enough, and said he was part of a VoIP Video business. Intrigued, I agreed to meet him for lunch 2 days later.
That meeting was [...]

Mood: Angry
I was reading the front page of “The Australian” today, and apparently scientists and economists are having a hard time predicting the exact economic impact of reducing our carbon emissions (and hence, obviously, saving the environment). They’re talking about power stations closing, household prices shifting, and so on.
So-called “free market capitalists” are decrying any [...]

Cramming. You’ve heard of spamming, phishing, and pharming (or have you?). Welcome to the latest unwanted and insidious confidence trick that allows people to bill you recurrently for stuff you never asked for.
According to a well-rounded Ars-Technica article, cramming involves signing up a mobile phone user to services which directly bill their mobile phone [...]

In my inbox today, I received the following email. Now, I didn’t want to leap to any conclusions, so with my heart pounding and my brow furrowed I read right to the end.

Attorney James Obby
85 rue du lome,
Togo West Africa.
Telephone: +228-909-6319
Dear Daniel Walmsley,
I am contacting you for the claim of your late uncle fund that was [...]

Ok, so a while ago I set up a Google Alert to inform me of happenings related to myself, and periodically it tells me someone on the web called “Dan Walmsley” (typically an Irish F1 Engineer, but occasionally me) has been written about.
Today, however, the results were far more disturbing.
Dan twinned the Steward way in [...]

Last weekend I was lucky enough to be part of the inaugural Portable Film Academy. Thanks to Andrew Apostola and all the crew, helpers, speakers and other attendees it was a great weekend and I really learned a lot.
The core task for the weekend was to create an original online series, and below you can [...]

Planet Nerd is a variety show for and about nerds of all stripes. Whether you’re a died-in-the-wool Trekkie or you just went “heh!” at an episode of Buffy once, this show is for you. Featuring music, sketch comedy, documentaries, and uncategorisable flights of fancy.
It was created by me, along with a rag-tag bunch of miscreants, [...]

In a sharp left-turn for the danwalmsley.com ouvre, what follows is instructions for virtualising Magnolia CMS. Magnolia is an open-source Content Management system available in both community and enterprise versions, and is elegant and easy-to-use.
If you want to deploy Magnolia for multiple clients across multiple virtual domains hosted through a single instance of Apache HTTPD [...]