Oct
30
2007
Good Morning Silicon Valley is on an excellent roll in today’s edition with some tasty quotes and links. John Murrell — who just gets better and better — serves up lots of good stuff from a John Heilemann New York magazine article on the two coasts and blowing (tech) bubbles. Heilemann nails the difference in [...]
Oct
29
2007
Brilliant, though you’d want an awful lot of time on your hands to do the knife-work. Death Star: Here’s Johnny (now, that would really creep me out to find this glowing on someone’s front porch…!): Lots more here.
Oct
28
2007
I’m just back from an exhausting 24 hour journey over and back to the UK — Rugby to be exact — to an international conference on the horrific and painful neurological disorder, syringomyelia. SM is typified by having the brain herniate through the foramen magnum (the opening in the base of the skull) into the [...]
Oct
28
2007
I’ve been through about 5 phones in the past two and a half months of trialling this and that for various reasons and articles. I’ve yet to find one that is perfect (does such a thing exist for anyone?
) though the Nokia N95 comes close, I think; and on the basis of trialling the [...]
Oct
22
2007
Brendan McWilliams has passed away — very sad news. I loved his Weather Eye column, one of those quirky individual pieces of intelligent writing that few newspapers carry any more. Always informative, often very drily funny, full of his personality and evidence of a widely ranging mind, the column could brighten the rainiest day. He [...]
Oct
22
2007
I cannot believe that RTE’s website has as its headline on the major story of the shooting of John Daly, “Liveline caller killed in Dublin attack”. Well, I suppose that is one way to precisely describe Mr Daly. But I hadn’t realised the fact that this man — along with half the nation — has [...]
Oct
19
2007
I want to upgrade this weblog to the latest Wordpress version and also change the design — toying around with adding a few things, changing a few things… I want to set up my data retention archives again for example. Maybe something I will get to this weekend. I find looking at design templates mind [...]
Oct
17
2007
To a very deserving Anne Enright goes this year’s Booker Prize.
I am intrigued by the voting method worked out by the chair of the Booker judges’ panel, Howard Davies, though: [A]s befitted the director of the London School of Economics, he devised what he called an ingenious selection of voting systems: a weighted [...]
Oct
15
2007
A trial touchscreen iPod just arrived to the door this afternoon and talk about genuinely orgasmic pieces of tech. Oh. My. God. This is really one of the most beautiful, intelligently designed bits of kit I have ever seen. Can’t believe the resolution on the screen, how thin the thing is, and how cool the [...]
Oct
15
2007
This had baffled me for ages — probably because I have never bothered to read how it actually works, nor bothered to ask anyone to show me. I don’t send all that many texts so it was never a big issue. However in a weak moment of true confessions, I mentioned to George after our [...]
Oct
12
2007
My little blenheim cavalier King Charles spaniel and I will be demonstrating dog agility at Pet Expo Saturday and Sunday, the 13-14, in the RDS at Pet Expo. Jaspar is very good at it — certainly good enough for someone to run him competitively — but the someone isn’t me, I’m afraid, as I just [...]
Oct
12
2007
I was delighted to hear that Doris Lessing has won this year’s Nobel for literature. I’ve admired her for so long both as a writer and as a person. The Golden Notebook, the novel singled out by the Nobel committee, deeply influenced me as a very young woman and so many of my girlfriends, too [...]