if you like listening to Irish nerd-talk and squeeky old me, tune into the IT Freely podcast over on IAN. This week there was some chatter about twitter and in interesting interview with someone called Emmanuel from 2600 – Episode #7

The first meeting of the Irish Robotics Club  (www.robots.ie) will be held tomorrow (June 24th) in the TCD Science Gallery (7-8pm in studio 2)
Since it will be the first meeting I’ll talk a little bit about setting up the club and what sort of activities the club run (talks, workshops, competitions, etc). Then I’ll open [...]

for those of you looking for live coverage of the Irish Budget 2009 (or the 4th attempt as some call it), have a peek at the live streams from the Oireachtas website, provided mostly by HEAnet.
Dail Eireann – Windows Media Player – http://asx.heanet.ie/oireachtas/dail_broadband.asx
Dail Eireann – Flash Player (new to me) – http://www.oireachtas.ie/viewdoc.asp?fn=/documents/livewebcast/DailFlash512KB.htm
Dail Eireann – audio [...]

Didn’t get to the first talks as I was at a Jason Byrne gig but Skycon was worth the early-morning drive.
The first talk I attended was by Ciarán Maher of daft.ie who explained the evolution of the site and the supporting architecture. Interesting use of Amazon S3 services and now there is a API – [...]

Skycon is a computer society conference that punches well above its weight. In just two weeks, Skycon ‘09 will take place so book your train tickets now!
Speakers include Randall Munroe, ex-NASA contractor and creator of the famous xkcd comic, and David Malone, who works on IPv6 and Wireless Networking in the FreeBSD operating system.
Other speakers will [...]

I had a friend ask me to fix their computer, which is a regular occurrence as I’m a computer engineer and I know how to fix everything of course.
This request was special though in that the symptom was that as soon as this person tried to stream from RTE, the Internet connection dropped! The problem [...]

I read RTE this morning and was delighted to see the headline “Hi-tech cable to link US with Ireland” but incredulous when they stated that it was the first transatlantic telecommunications cable to directly link Ireland with the US. I got over it until I saw an even bolder claim in the Metro paper – [...]

I’ve recently moved to Dublin so I’ll be networking a lot more in capital. First off was the Microsoft BizSpark Launch @ Digital Island Meetup. Held in the luxurious Four Seasons Hotel, Microsoft launched a practical offering to startup companies consisting of free/cheap software and support. See – Microsoft BizSpark
The evening then turned more topical [...]

Today, I got news that MSN groups is being shut down…why?
Because we [MSN Groups] are dedicated to providing our customers with the most current and user friendly technology available today we made the difficult decision to close the MSN Groups service. This decision is part of an overall investment to update and re-align our online [...]

I liked this video and thought I would share – Supermarket 2.0

glumbert.com – Supermarket 2.0