Archive for November, 2007

Nov 19 2007

And you think Homeland security is a hassle

Published byKarlin under dogs

Just try getting a dog from California to Ireland. I will be flying out Friday with a small dog and heading to Dublin via the UK. The easiest route was though London so I am flying with Virgin (who even have a pet air miles scheme for animal travellers, called Flying Paws, for which they [...]

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Nov 18 2007

No one here but us cockroaches

Published byKarlin under general weirdness,science

OK, and a few little robot bugs too. The story about the little weeny robots that not only inculcated themselves into a cockroach colony but could even get the real cockroaches to choose to hang with them rather than their insect buddies is pretty bizarre and has lots of coverage in the Silicon Valley press [...]

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Nov 17 2007

OpenWorld offcuts

Published byKarlin under events

Final tidbits from OpenWorld — Michael Dell gave a fairly patchy talk that looked as if he hadn’t had much time to rehearse — a lot of over-obvious reading from the teleprompter — but he did throw in the mention of an upcoming very thin tablet notebook that will use multi-touch technology on the screen… [...]

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Nov 16 2007

denise cox: blogger of the year

Published byKarlin under blogging,events

Woo hoo! My good pal denise cox has won the Best Blogger category in the Irish Internet Association annual awards this year for her Newsweaver blog. She also won their Net Visionary award a few years back for her wonderful website www.irishanimals.ie, which has been a central meeting point for many Irish animal welfare groups [...]

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Nov 14 2007

Solaris on Dell

Published byKarlin under events

Michael Dell has joined Sun’s Jonathan Schwartz onstage in San Francisco to announce that Dell will now offer Solaris preinstalled on Dell hardware. Schwartz: “We want to collectively go after the biggest market we can.”

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Nov 14 2007

New xVM open source community

Published byKarlin under net communities

For those into or interested in xVM and open sourcing data centres, Sun’s CEO Jonathan Schwartz has just announced (during his keynote at Oracle OpenWorld) a new open source community site: www.openxvm.org. xVM technologies target data centres.

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Nov 13 2007

Ad hoc Google and Oracle apps

Published byKarlin under events

I’m out in San Francisco for Oracle OpenWorld where there have been a couple of interesting keynotes from Mark Hurd of HP and Paul Ottelini of Intel, and one ongoing right now that delves a bit into products. A Google guy was just up explaining how Google wants to help create ‘ad hoc Google’ — [...]

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Nov 02 2007

If insects had radios…

Published byKarlin under general weirdness,science

…apparently they’d listen to “Layla” and “Good Vibrations”. At least, those were the two songs played through a nano-radio made out of a single carbon nanotube fibre — a radio that could fit ‘in the palm of an ant’, according to the US National Science Foundation (surely, that is any one of six palms? Or [...]

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Nov 02 2007

Drunken masses: a new meaning?

Published byKarlin under general weirdness,ireland

An only-in-Ireland story on the front page of the Irish Times today: priests fear that celebrating more than one mass a day could put them over the new limit when driving from church afterwards. “The shortage of priests has resulted in those who are currently ministering having to say multiple Masses, and often drive from [...]

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Nov 01 2007

Social networks: how social?

Published byKarlin under privacy

The FTC is being asked to look more closely at the data collection practices of social network sites which may gather information and then share it in ways that could violate privacy regulations. The concerns come as Google announced its OpenSocial standards to let developers create social networking technologies that can link in to Google, [...]

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Nov 01 2007

An ethereal voice

Published byKarlin under arts,events

I gave myself one of the best presents ever last night when I went along to the National Concert Hall to see countertenor Andreas Scholl and the Ulster Orchestra in an all-Handel programme. I was very excited going into this performance and was not disappointed — his voice is just otherworldly, note perfect, disciplined, expressive, [...]

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