Feb
26
2007
Anyone interested generally in science might enjoy watching six postgraduate research students from UCD Conway Institute of Biomolecular & Biomedical Research battle to give a jargon-free mini lecture on their research tomnorrow night. Pat Kenny will chair the event and the students will come under the scrutiny of a celebrity judging panel that includes singer/songwriter, [...]
Feb
26
2007
Anyone in Dublin this coming Thursday with an interest in the crossover between technology and the arts and humanities will be interested in a lecture at Trinity by Alastair Dunning of the UK’s Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS). The bumf says the lecture …will explore the opportunities and challenges in the creation of large [...]
Feb
24
2007
Don’t get much lazier than this!
Feb
23
2007
Aer Lingus staff are threatening strike action — to start potentially on the day I am flying to the US for a long-planned family holiday. The company can only reroute me free of charge if I want to go three days earlier, on Sunday — which will cost me an extra chunk of dosh to [...]
Feb
23
2007
One of my favourite Irish tech leaders, Chris Horn of Iona Technologies, has written a provocative and I think, very insightful piece on Ireland Inc and entrepreneurialism over on his blog.Out visiting Stanford, he got into a vigorous discussion on where Ireland stands now and whither it is going over dinner with 30 Irish based [...]
Tags: immigrants, Iona, Ryanair
Feb
23
2007
After a couple of years using phpBB for my Cavaliertalk board I’ve reached a frustration point with spam registrations and feeble member management tools (I’m at 1250, amazingly enough, and pick up a few each day) and after talking to various folks, have decided to port it to vBulletin. I looked into other open source [...]
Feb
23
2007
Yes, I know; it has been a very long time. I stopped blogging nearly a year ago when my Radio blogging software subscription expired as I was looking for a more flexible program. Then, around early summer I moved to a new hosting company, when I thought I’d be up and running using Wordpress. But [...]