Jul 23, 2010

I saw this idea on another blog. So here goes… 100 things you may or may not have known about me. 1. I was born in Tralee on Valentine’s Day in the building that now houses the Kerry County Council 2. Contrary to public opinion, I didn’t study sculpture at St. Martin’s college, I studied Business Information Systems at NUI Galway 3. I...

Jun 20, 2010

All throughout Ireland, and much of the world, when the clock strikes the hour, a church bell peels to announce the hour. Since the tradition was started in early Christian times, people have been ruled by the chimes from above and while few traditional bells remain in a digital world, I believe it’s now time to silence these tones of power. As children...

Jun 17, 2010

Twitter, the love-it-or-hate-it social chatter service has gone down this evening. Seems to be down for quite some time also. None of the API connectors are operating and the website itself has ground to a halt. While Twitter I’m sure has the power behind it to support the vast amount of users who keep the site worked over every day, this is an example of...

Jun 17, 2010

Today’s so-called “historic” vote held to find a leader to steer the supposed “largest part in Ireland” descended into what was inevitably going to be a bland and murky affair. The media speculation, adulation and hype ahead of the confidence motion in Enda Kenny today was nothing short of a blessing in disguise for Brian Cowen as...

Jun 17, 2010

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 came with Microsoft’s stab at virtualization – Hyper-V. VMWare more or less popularised the now widely adopted technology of in essence using one server to run many servers. In today’s ever more difficult economic climate, the unfortunate reality is that for many businesses, expense on IT is among the first...

Jun 15, 2010

Well the hardly surprising word from Dáil Éireann this evening is that Brian Cowen has survived along with the Fianna Fáil coalition government in a confidence vote overshadowed by the shadowy figures in the shadow cabinet. While ‘Fwinne Gwael’ have been crumbling apart in even mounds of political rubble all day, Brian sat back in the Dáil and...

Jun 15, 2010

When I saw the keynote address by Steve Jobs from the Moscone Center West in downtown San Francisco earlier this month, I was amazed. Sure, we’d all seen the seething photographs from Gizmodo and later on some other secrecy breaching people in Asia, but this was the event Jobs had been born to play. How do you maintain the same enthusiasm and passion for a...

Jun 14, 2010

Enda Kenny is on the way out. The slippery slope that he’s been see-sawing on since he became leader way back when has finally gotten slipperier, with Richard ‘Dick’ Bruton pouring a fresh coat of engine oil on it over the weekend. Enda saw the red flags and took out the political shot gun and fired it squarely at the so-called...