Technology

Ever feel like a cool drink on a hot day (very appropriate in Madrid today) but someone forgot to put the drinks in the fridge? Well it looks as though a self-chilling can may be the solution to your needs. Read on… source: Irish Independent Note: Article may require login

A new chemical developed in ths US exhibits all the fire fighting properties of water and even looks like water but it doesn’t wet anything. Strange but seemingly true. The chemical called Saphire may see firefighters extinguishing fires without the usual associated water damage. source: WPVI.com

Stem cells have finally been used to help heal a fracture in the skull of an animal. Very interesting article about the use of stem cells for helping to heal such problems. It has been long publicised that stem cells hold much promise as an alternative to gorwing clones for spare parts. Hopefully further research… Read More »Stem Cells

Well it’s about time and hopefully we’ll see prices start to fall as a result of this move. Legislation is currently being drafted that will see ComReg in control of the Irish Domains (i.e. .ie’s). Most Irish companies don’t even bother looking at registering a .ie address due to the red tape nonsense and overpriced… Read More »ComReg to Seize .ie

Thanks to Seán H for this link to a humourous article on the reg. Worth a few minutes of your time for a few smiles. source: The Register

Looks like MS are on the road to iPod competition. They aim to release their new mobile media solution, built by Creative running MS software, by Christmas 2004. This should help to heat up the mobile media market and hopefully inspire a price war in the consumers favour. However, I wonder why Creative have chosen… Read More »iPod Killer?

Well not really what the heading says. Toshiba have just produced the world’s smallest hard disk; less than half the size of the ones used in Apple iPods. The stamp size disks have been recognised by Guinness World Records as the smallest in the world and one can only wonder where this will take us… Read More »Stamp out Hard Drives

Good news for Ireland today. It appears that a compant interested in providing internet names for mobile devices is to set up a HQ here. The effort is in an attempt to speed up the production of web services for the mobile platforms and could spell some interesting futures for Irish industry with a focus… Read More »Good News for Ireland

Just announced that some of the top US e-mail providers have taken legal action against some of the known spam offenders in the US. About time too, as long as they stop them spewing into Europe while they’re at it since European law doesn’t cover spam from outside the EU. source: Irish Times Note: Irish… Read More »Spammers Beware

Just migrated my MT install to use MySQL instead of Berkeley DB (default). Process really couldn’t have been simpler. The most difficult part was some port tunnelling (no not Dublin, rather SSH) to get my MySQL GUI to connect to the remote server. One new file, 3 new config entries and run a simple script… Read More »MT 2 DB