Year: 2011


  •   Looking back on 2011 what springs to mind in this eventful year? Well, it certainly has been an eventful year from all angles, both nationally, internationally, politically, socially and […]

  • Such a great weekend for full moons. Just looking out through my living room window, committing the cardinal sin of shooting through the window glass. Who cares? Sometimes a shot […]

  • Now, if ever there was a title that sounded self-indulgent, here it is. However, its coinage is not of my own doing, albeit my activities and that of millions of […]

  • Interesting piece on censorship in social networks.ย http://www.webpronews.com/should-social-media-censor-offensive-content-2011-08 While inconclusive as to whether or not censorship happened in this instance it does raise an interesting question with respect to free speech […]

  • I finally got my Google Plus a/c sorted about two weeks ago now and have been playing with it ever since. Like most of my peers I have been an […]

  • Thomas Francis Meagher is a name well known in Waterford City. A celebrated revolutionary who made his mark on Ireland and also across the waters in America. Most people pass […]

  • Back in 2000, the patterns, principles, and best practices for building web information systems were mostly anecdotal and folkloric. Roy Fieldingโ€™s dissertation on the webโ€™s deep architecture provided a formal […]

  • Surfers who link their debit or credit card to iTunes have reason to be cautious after a Reg reader found his bank account plunged into the red overnight following ยฃ1,000 […]

  • The Irish flag, our tricolour, our greatest national symbol, used to identify us across the globe and who knows, maybe beyond. We can all identify it at a glance. To […]

  • via youtube.com Almost a terrible start to the new year. My beloved PS3 that I use for Blu-ray much more than I use for games, stopped reading discs on me. […]