Tag: Technology

  • Airport security is a joke

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    Tom Raftery
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    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 we were in Spain and a Spanish doctor prescribed a cough suppressant called Expectu to…

  • The $100 laptop

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    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 project. When it was begun, the project seemed extremely fanciful but at the Reboot conference…

  • Comparing the sex trade in Madrid and Copenhagen

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    I’m in Barajas airport (Madrid) awaiting my flight back to Cork. The presentations I gave at Reboot (Copenhagen) on Thursday and Remix (Madrid) were really well received. I got lots of very positive feedback and invites to speak at more events which is the most positive feedback you can get! By some bizarre coincidence, my…

  • Technorati resurrects the Marquee tag…

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    Tom Raftery
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    Technorati have overhauled their site completely. Some of the changes are great and some we could do without, frankly! The best change is that they have drastically sped up the site. I dunno did they add more servers or simply optimise their queries (I suspect the latter) but the site and particularly searches are now…

  • Happy birthday Enrique!

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    Tom Raftery
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    Enrique Luis Raftery Carnicero, my younger son, is one year old today. Happy birthday Enrique.

  • Silverlight causing Firefox to freeze on Mac?

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    Tom Raftery
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    Over the last number of days I noticed my Firefox (on Mac) was getting increasingly unstable. It was freezing completely after being open for random amounts of time (but generally not very long!). I had recently installed a couple of new Firefox extensions so I was blaming them. However, uninstalling them made no difference. Today…

  • Nokia N70 and E65 cameras compared

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    Tom Raftery
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    I took a couple of close-up photos of my bookcase to compare the quality of the cameras in the Nokia N70 and the Nokia E65 Here is a copy of the photo the N70 took: and here is the E65’s photo of the same bookcase (in high quality mode): As you can see from these…

  • Street Performance World Championships 2007

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    Tom Raftery
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    Last year’s Street Performance World Championships were a great success by all accounts (and it certainly looks to have been a fabulous day out for all the family as well as the performers!). Talking to Mark and Conor, the organisers, the other day, this year’s SPWC is set to be even better again with world…