Monday, September 17, 2007 With the amount of sports on at the moment, I picked a bad two weeks to go to America. Hundreds of TV channels, including dozens of dedicated sports channels, and 90% of them show nothing but college football. In a country where 34.5 million people claim Irish heritage, I had expected it to be easier [...]
Monday, September 17, 2007 One of the most effective ways to achieve anonymity online is by using TOR – the Onion Router. A minority of volunteers run servers which make the service possible. It is risky, because, if you run a server, it could be your IP that is logged when somebody does something illegal. The TOR website has [...]
Thursday, September 13, 2007 The one stop shop for Irish politics on the web has just been relaunched . How it works: just install this plugin on your WordPress site and it will automatically link every time you mention an irish politician. I like the way it brings together so many different perspectives. Politics in Ireland posts whatever the [...]
Tuesday, September 11, 2007 Sinéad Gleeson is back with a flurry of activity this week. A lot of new music I’ll have to check out, and a good question here: Has anyone, who isn’t born and bred here, ever managed to pull off a decent Irish accent A good few comments but I don’t think anyone has really hit [...]
Friday, September 7, 2007 Michael Arrington has announced the relaunch of a more localised Techcrunch, Techcrunch UK – sometimes referred to as Techcrunch UK & Ireland. It’s good to see a place which will bring more coverage to Irish tech news, but it is disappointing to see the owner (of all people) referring to it as “Techcrunch UK”. Yes, [...]
Thursday, September 6, 2007 Attention any Linux users having trouble with Totem: be careful of what information you submit in your bug reports!. (Well spotted, Killian)
Thursday, September 6, 2007 This is England Good stuff I’ll admit that I was a little bit hesitant about this, another super low budget “slightly troubled young British boy falls in with wrong crowd” movie, but it was a nice surprise. This is England plays on nostalgia for 1983 urban England in the same way that Donnie Darko brought [...]
Monday, September 3, 2007 A 22 game ban seems very lenient for this: