I keynote, write, and podcast about Sustainability, CleanTech and Supply Chain
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Mozilla recently released Gran Paradiso 1.9 Alpha 5 (aka Firefox 3). This is the up and coming version of Firefox and although still in Alpha, I have been running it for several days now and it is quite stable. According…
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Congrats Sir Tim!
According to an article on the BBC’s website, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, is to receive an Order of Merit from the Queen of England. I don’t think there is anyone who would argue with…
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Don't install Safari on Windows!
Wow that was fast! Apple released a beta of their Safari browser last night to run on Windows and a few short hours later, vulnerabilities which allow remote code execution have been published already! It looks like Safari for Windows…
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Safari 3 for Windows. New OS, same missing features!
I saw from Engadget that Apple have released a new beta version of their browser, Safari, which will run on Windows. There are versions for Windows XP and Windows Vista. I downloaded it and installed on an XP machine and…
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Airport security is a joke
Not that we haven’t known that for some time but it was recently drilled home to me on my flight back from Madrid last week. My son Enrique has asthma. He got quite bad with it earlier this year when…
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The $100 laptop
The One Laptop per Child project aims to put a laptop computer within reach of far more children than today. One of the architects of the project, Media Lab’s Nicholas Negroponte, said that: It’s an education project, not a laptop…
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Niall Greaney 1987-2007 RIP
Niall Greaney was the son of my first cousin Greta Greaney. He was born 10th June 1987. Yesterday, 8th June 2007, I attended his funeral. Niall died as the result of injuries he received in an horrific car accident on…
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Views from the CIX mast
We are erecting a 24 metre mast outside our CIX data centre in Cork. I was curious to know what the visibility would be like for our mast’s customers (we will be renting out space on the mast) so yesterday…
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