Archive for October, 2007

Oct 30 2007

Bubble, bubble…

Published byKarlin under Apple,technoculture

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 [...]

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Oct 29 2007

Geek pumpkins

Published byKarlin under general weirdness

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.

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Oct 28 2007

Going to the dogs

Published byKarlin under dogs,science

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 [...]

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Oct 28 2007

The phone circus

Published byKarlin under ramblings

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? :D ) though the Nokia N95 comes close, I think; and on the basis of trialling the [...]

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Oct 22 2007

Farewell Weather Eye

Published byKarlin under Uncategorized

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 [...]

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Oct 22 2007

Newsflash: Sun revolves around RTE

Published byKarlin under Uncategorized

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 [...]

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Oct 19 2007

Overhaul on its way

Published byKarlin under blogging

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 [...]

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Oct 17 2007

More literary laurels

Published byKarlin under Uncategorized

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 [...]

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Oct 15 2007

The iPod Touch: OMG

Published byKarlin under Apple,technoculture

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 [...]

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Oct 15 2007

Predictive text: I finally get it!

Published byKarlin under ramblings

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 [...]

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Oct 12 2007

Chasing after Jaspar

Published byKarlin under dogs

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 [...]

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Oct 12 2007

Go Doris! an icon for many

Published byKarlin under arts

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 [...]

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