I used to be good with phone numbers, I guess I remembered about 50 numbers (6 & 7 digits). Relatives, Friends, Buildings, Services, and about 20 radio stations all stored in my brain, no problem as I used these numbers and stored them. So what happened? Mobile phones happened. I started storing the frequently used…
Roches Point
When Good Plugins Go Bad
Restricting the usage of Extensions We have been talking about this for a while, but it is important to repeat. Limit your usage of extensions (or plugins), along with all other third party components, and only use from trusted sources. More importantly, only if you need the said functionality. The less plugins you have configured…
magic URL’s
what if URLs had no names and no dots and no com net or org? well we wouldn’t remember them, unless we were good with numbers. But for some Maths fun. if you take the IP behind a domain name and compute Octet 1 x 2563 + Octet 2 x 2562 + Octet 3 x…
#feb9 [pics]
See the full gallery on Posterous pictures from the ICTU “Congress” protest march 09.02.13 CAHWT from DNE
RTE on Twitter Hack “were Irish accounts hacked?”
RTE “The company (Twitter) said they could not comment specifically on whether Irish accounts were affected by the hacking incident” So RTE asked were Irish accounts involved? What a silly question. Yes they were. Mine too. Twitter doesn’t have a database for Ireland. RTE “Both newspapers (The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal)…
What’s the story with Tuairisc? Anti Bullying Report Form
My name is Brian Greene. I make technology work for a living. I live in Baldoyle Dublin 13 with the rest of the family. As a father of 3 school going children I am concerned by the media reports of bullying in Ireland today. Either we are amid an epidemic of bullying or the media…
CIE School bus safety film (1970s).
The X-Press July 12th 1995 produced by the locked out Irish Press journalists.
Barney McKenna died April 5th 2012Con Houlihan died August 4th 2012 May they rest in peace.