Month: February 2007


  • DRM in a nutshell

    Interesting summation of what DRM actually means as opposed to the techie description of what it actually is. Handy if you should ever find yourself at a party and in […]

  • Gmail your life

    If like me you think that Gmail is most definitely the greatest web-based e-mail system you have ever used and even though your better judgement warns you against ticking the […]

  • More problems with outsourcing – this time from my birthplace of Swansea in South Wales. Apparently the cit council has outsourced its IT and councillors are only complaining ever since. […]

  • What a match!

    That has to have been the greatest game of rugby that I have ever seen. Scoreline aside, the way in which the Irish team played together and, in no lesser […]

  • Am I a link whore?

    I’ve been blogging now since about January 2002, sadly my Greymatter archives for all bar March 2002 were lost between site updates. Technically speaking if you count my misadventures with […]

  • Visual Studio Express Free cut-down Microsoft tools known as the express versions. Great resource for developers wanting to experiment with .net (tags: .net microsoft express developer development tools compiler ide […]

  • This morning I opened my RSS reader much like any other day. Then trawling through the day’s updates I spotted this post from Bernie. Our techie ambassador from the Irish […]

  • I note that 123.ie has won its case to claim the 123.eu domain after a long and, I’m sure, costly battle. Fair play to them for pursuing it and winning […]

  • Monte Carlo method – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Quick into to the Monte Carlo method – just dawned on me this morning that I had forgotten the details of it. […]

  • Lunar Eclipse

    It appears that us lucky folk in Ireland will be able to appreciate a total lunar eclipse on March 3rd. Can’t wait! source: NASA