Category: Technology

  • Funeral services

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    The outpouring of support I have received on the recent death of my mother has been incredibly heartening – thank you all. A couple of people have asked what the funeral arrangements are. My mother’s removal will be tomorrow, January 9th from O’Connor’s Funeral Home, Sarsfield’s Road to Dennehy’s Cross Church at 5:30pm. The funeral…

  • Is Easycar reputable?

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    A quick question for readers of this blog – have any of you used Easycar for car rental, and, if so, did you find them reputable? I ask this because I organised a car to be ready for us when we landed in Malaga on the evening of the 27th (Dec) last. We were arriving…

  • Happy New Year

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    Happy New Year everyone! (Written from a web cafe in Seville). I´ll be offline for another week getting some R&R – back on the 8th.

  • Happy whatever!

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    It used to be so simple. We lived in monocultural, monoethnic, Catholic Ireland. This time of year we simply said “Happy Christmas” to everyone. Now Ireland has changed (and even if it didn’t, along came the Internet and connected everywhere to everywhere) so I guess I should say Happy Whatever to one and all! Enjoy…

  • Venice Project beta doesn't include Macs

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    Along with the rest of the world, it seems, I received my invite to try out the beta of the Venice Project. This is an IPTV project set up by Kazaa and Skype founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis (so straight away you have to start taking it seriously). Mike Arrington has written it up…

  • 5 things you didn't know about me

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    I hate chain letters and I have a similar opinion of meme tag posts, however when two people I know and respect tag me, well I kinda gotta play along – just don’t expect me to pass it on! Things you probably don’t know about me: I studied for four years for a PhD in…

  • Richard MacManus' predictions for 2007

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    Richard MacManus, over on Read/WriteWeb has an extremely comprehensive must read post on his forecast for what will be hot in 2007. His predictions for 2007: RSS will go mainstream Structured data will be a big trend Widgets will continue rising in 2007 Web Office will continue to ramp up The consumerization of the enterprise…

  • Are Six Apart losing it?

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    Six Apart are the US based company who make blog software TypePad, Movable Type, and Vox. Loic Le Meur, is the Eurppean head of Six Apart. Loic was also the organiser of the recent Le Web 3 mess and has written a blog post (and emailed attendees) his side of what happened in Paris last…