Nothing but death in the last couple of days. This morning I learned of the death of Arthur C. Clarke, the famous author of “2001 a Space Odyssey”. Arthur’s imagination and understanding of the vaguely known gave rise to an entire generation of devoted fans to his work. I first encountered him in the context… Read More »Arthur C. Clarke RIP
I have posted on occasion when spammers have made me laugh and today is no exception to that pattern of my behaviour. We are all so used to getting spam in one form or other, be it suspect medications, lottery wins, traditional 419’ers or any other number of things. Today however, there was something new… Read More »Organised Spammers
We live in a time where our country’s leader is on trial for corruption and yet is still allowed to run the state and to look into passing legislation that will stop people trying to find out if the claims of corruption are true. That’s Ireland in a nutshell sadly; at the current moment in… Read More »Something is rotten, in this state!
Recently I sent four staggered e-mails and most recently (last week) I sent a written letter by regular post to the Irish Times on the issue of a university for the South East. For some reason, none of my requests to be published in the “Letters to the Editor” section fell on the right desk.… Read More »Getting published
We now live in an age whereby the complete over-reaction to terrorism, that has always been going on but never highlighted, ensures that we live each and every day in fear. Whether we step on a bus, wait for a flight or any other daily activity, we have seen some media campaign that makes us… Read More »Just how ridiculous is this?
Apparently, Nokia are to embed the Microsoft Silverlight client into their S60 handsets. The often feared symbian OS is now getting a pseudo-Flash client that will allow developers to make applications for S60 phones easier than they have been able to do so in native Symbian code. However, the combination of non-Flash posing as Flash… Read More »Silverlight 60
A campaign has just been launched today, to help support the effort of bringing a university to the South East of Ireland. The South East region of Ireland is dramatically underperforming economically, compared to the rest of the country. With a largely vocational population many people in the region are unaware of what exactly a… Read More »Get FUSEd
In an interesting move today, the government announced that it was to allocate Eur 50 million towards helping start-up companies in the Institute of Technology sector. Good news for those companies. However, the cynical mindset would be wise to suggest that this is no coincidence given last week’s release of the Port report on the… Read More »Eur 50 million distraction?