Karlin Lillington’s weblog on whatever comes to mind
Apr 27 2009
Pete Wedderburn, Telegraph columnist and TV3 vet (and one of my vets for my Irish Cavalier Rescue!) has a fascinating and informative blog post today on how swine flu probably jumped species and why this common pig ailment could be very scary to humans.
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Apr 27 2009
Check out this website about black holes, which includes videos of what you’d see were you unfortunate enough to fall into one (and assuming Einstein’s laws of relativity are correct). Falling in might be interesting, but rather uncomfortable:
Near the singularity, the tidal force becomes extreme. The same tidal force that pulls you apart vertically and crushes [...]
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Apr 26 2009
Wow, one little word sure has got American commentators in a delighted froth: the word being the one that is included on George Carlin’s infamous Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television and which was used by Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz live in a results conference call with loads of hacks and analysts listening in. Apparently this word is also known as [...]
Apr 23 2009
The very energetic John Handelaar and Gavin Sheridan have put together a much-needed website which makes the Dail, and what TDs and Senators write and say, easily accessible and searchable. The website is Kildarestreet.com and it promises to vastly increase Dail transparency simply by making it easier to know what is going on, what’s been said, what questions were [...]
Apr 23 2009
According to my inbox I received exactly 5 emails in a 7 hour period today starting early in the morning — then one piece of spam at around 11am then 4 copies of the same Dilbert cartoon just before 3pm. Given the heavy traffic of press releases, a few personal emails, discussion list posts and [...]
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Apr 22 2009
Used to be that there was a widespread ‘understanding’ that if US citizens took on the citizenship of another country, or held it already due to, say, being born in one country but brought up in the US by American parents, that they risked losing their US citizenship. Americans think this, and people in other countries, both. [...]
Apr 22 2009
The NYT has this piece on notebooks, netbooks and the history of portability, and John Naughton blogs it with a couple of pics of his early ‘portables’. I had (actually, still have up in my attic as I can’t bear to part with my old friend) a ‘portable’ Mac SE from around 1990 with a [...]
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Apr 22 2009
Six years ago today I was slumped into a couch in the Shelbourne interviewing William Gibson, for nearly two hours. Well actually, the interview ran for about 60 minutes but then there was a gap before the photographer came and so he suggested we just sit on and gab and drink coffee, which was a [...]
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Apr 21 2009
Utterly awesome: old computers, printers and oscilloscopes play a strangely poignant version of Bohemian Rhapsody. Thanks to Good Morning Silicon Valley for the link.
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Apr 20 2009
Finalleeeeeeeee the blog is up and running once more. Well, epic effort involved to get my database back again from former hosting company; a long tale of woe! What a nightmare — I wish there were a set of standards for blogs that made it possible to easily move between blogging applications with a database [...]
Apr 12 2009
Amazon UK stopped shipping electronics to Ireland three years ago in a dispute over the WEEE recycling charge — very annoying. Now (as of last week), they are sending items here again. That’s great news, as often their prices are excellent. I guess in this downturn, when every customer should count (well, that should always be the [...]
Apr 09 2009
In a new European HQ for Big Fish Games, the online games crowd.
The new office will focus on multilingual European customer support, games testing and localisation, and is expected to create up to 100 new jobs over the next three years.
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