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Tired of looking at blurry images on the T.V?  Trying to get a good look at a picture that makes up the dots on a printed paper? And fed up at tiny little images on the online edition? Have a look at this: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/02/bushfires_in_victoria_australi.html They have an RSS feed for their Big Picture series and [...]

I’m quite happy with running WordPress on this blog, performance is superb especially with Donncha’s Super Cache plugin. (see the difference that can make here) However recently I have been asked as a favour to host a few sites for friends and acquaintances. In fact I’m already hosting Frob’s site for him and the site [...]

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A sincere thank you to those of you who nominated me for the Irish Blog Awards.  I’ve been nominated in the category for Best Personal Blog for this blog and in the Best Technology Blog/Blogger category for my all too often neglected tech blog. (I’m working on a new post for over so be sure [...]

This is brilliant! Go to www.goldenpages.ie and you should see a screen with the following: Enter what you are looking for and where and the goldenpages.ie truth detector will give you the answer! Brilliant but not original, Stumbleupon as sent me quite a few of these already.

I had the fortune to meet Bernie Goldbach today at college. Today is the 10th anniversary of the founding of Tipperary Institute and there was a tree planting ceremony to mark the occassion. With the ceremony over I got chatting to Bernie who is a lecturer at college. In the course of our chat he [...]

Although Lucas is just over one year old now, he loves it when the childrens show Lazytown is shown on T.V. As kids shows go it’s not all that bad and fairly entertaining. Rather than me describing it you can check out the Wikipedia entry on it. Lucas particulary like when they start singing. However [...]

In the normal run of things I rank Adobe Flash as one of the most hateful creations in the history of the planet, universe or whatever. Strangely my next most hateful creation is Adobe Acrobat Reader. Coincidence? Mind you, every now and then something comes along to remind you that maybe Adobe Flash is not [...]