Archive for April, 2007

Apr 24 2007

Some will be relieved…

Published byKarlin under general weirdness,science

… but journalists will just feel smug to hear that physicists believe reality does not exist when we are not observing it. Like we haven’t been telling you that all along?

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Apr 24 2007

No S’mores, but lots of fun

I went to camp on Saturday, but instead of weaving lanyards, singing camp songs, and roasting marshmallows for S’mores, I learned a lot about techie stuff. The camp was BarCamp, the first one held in Dublin, also known as an ‘unconference’. Search blogs on Google for BarCamp Dublin and you’ll get plenty of detail on [...]

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Apr 23 2007

Unlikely song of genius

Published byKarlin under arts,ramblings

Even when I was very young and first heard it, I thought Wichita Lineman as sung by Glen Campbell and written by Jimmy Webb was one of the most magical songs I’d ever heard, mainly because I loved the melody and thought the lyrics were kind of funny — why was a phoneline (or is [...]

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Apr 20 2007

Rural broadband

Published byKarlin under internet,ireland

A bit more on broadband. Getting broadband to rural areas is the bugbear in Ireland — we are regularly told it is too costly to get broadband out to a rural population in a country about 68,000 square km in size and with just under 4 million inhabitants. China, on the other hand, is about [...]

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Apr 18 2007

Copy write/rite/right?

Published byKarlin under arts

Fergus Cassidy has some very interesting posts on his blog about the copyright battle ongoing between a Stanford professor and the Estate of James Joyce over whether copyright applies or does not apply to his works, and where. Fergus notes non-US computers were supposedly blocked from accessing the offending pages of material as part of [...]

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Apr 18 2007

Ireland’s tortoise approach to broadband

Published byKarlin under internet,ireland,rants

The Dail’s special committee’s report on broadband is out today and is fairly damning of the Irish situation (how could it be otherwise). Committee member Tommy Broughan TD got a press release out fast, noting three areas in which the report noted serious shortcomings: · the defective and lethargic government policy on broadband rollout; · [...]

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Apr 12 2007

Toil and trouble

Published byKarlin under rants

I don’t do illness very well — probably like lot of doctors’ children (worse still in my case, a child of a doctor and a registered nurse). Like the tailor’s children and their shoeless feet, we were generally considered inconvenient at best when ill, and sitting at home with stomach flu made us good candidates [...]

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Apr 03 2007

Dull Wide Web

Published byKarlin under general weirdness,internet

The Guardian has a brilliant and very funny piece in G2 today (with links of course) on our passion for Exceedingly Dull Webcams. It’s true! Ever since we reached the point where you could stick a camera onto an internet connection, people would go look at something achingly boring (even, predictably, watching paint dry). By [...]

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