Archive for January, 2007

Hatred

January 30, 2007

My weekly column in Lá Nua is published today.  I’ve recently considered translating some of these that feature topics I want to discuss with a wider audience.  However I’ve noticed that, whenever I try to do that, I tend not to repeat myself, but rather end up writing a new article, often with new ideas.  [...]

Apalling Vista?

January 30, 2007

From The Inquirer: 
If this is all the billions, man-hours and years brought, what was the point? We get a bloated, DRM infected rights removal tool that advances the state of the art to where Apple was the better part of a decade ago, and we are supposed to call this progress? Puh-leeze.
MS is in a [...]

Edgecast Media sponsor The Irish Blog Awards

January 25, 2007

Last year’s inaugural Irish Blog Awards was a warm and wonderful occasion.  Not only were past achievements acknowledged and recognised, but I firmly believe the occasion provided an important impetus and contributed to the growth and development of Irish blogs in the 12 months that have followed.
My wife Margaret and I had a very enjoyable time, [...]

Podcamp Waterford

January 22, 2007

Podcamp Waterford was a subsession of Barcamp Ireland SouthEast which was held in Waterford Institute of Technology on Saturday.  Thanks to Keith and Tom and everyone else who helped to organise it - and to all the campers for their contributions to a very enjoyable event.
I’ll have more to post about it in the next day or [...]

Come to Barcamp in Waterford on Saturday - Learn to Podcast

January 17, 2007

Barcamp Ireland SouthEast is on this Saturday at Waterford IT. It’s a sort of self-organised gathering of technologically minded people - well, to be honest, I don’t really know for sure: I’ve never been to one before!
But I know I want to go! Lot’s of people who’s blogs I read will be there. [...]

Resumption

January 15, 2007

This is a post to break the ice. Sometimes it’s hard to know what to say on a blog, and sometimes the longer you leave it the harder it gets.
I want to thank most sincerely everyone who expressed their sympathy after our recent loss. There’s been a lot to deal with and, while we are [...]