Clogging up the Web

I just bought myself the fine ultraportable laptop, Lenovo’s ThinkPad X61s. Hardware-wise, this is an excellent laptop. I like the form factor with 12.1″ XGA screen. For wordprocessing and web-browsing, XGA suits the portrait page better than WXGA. 1024×768 resolution is perfectly fine for something that is going to sit right on your lap. It’s […]

I have only owned my XBOX 360 since just before Christmas ‘06. Before buying it, when I was deciding on which console to buy, I researched the question of which was the best console Wii, PS3 or XBOX 360. In the end, my decision was made by availability. I had no trouble getting the XBOX […]

My ageing IBM T20 laptop had served me well. Costing about £2,500 back in 2000, you would expect it to last the test of time. Admittedly, it has had 1 replacement screen, was on it’s 3rd hard drive, had had the memory upgraded and the battery replaced twice, but essentially it was the same laptop […]

Wow. Nearly a whole half year since my last post. A combination of illness and changing workloads have taken priority in recent times, but I’m back in flying form again….
With all that workload and a bout of illness, I think I deserve a holiday somewhere hot. I know where I won’t be going - Egypt! […]

Only something like 8 months to go to the next Irish general election - assuming Von Dowell doesn’t throw a spanner in the works as Tainiste. Will this be the first time that blogging hits the Irish consciousness in a big way? Despite what some Irish bloggers might think, the audience out there is currently […]

I have a new photo blog entitled Picopaedia dedicated to what I think are interesting thngs captured by digital photography. I am new to this, but hopefully I can hit the ground running with some nice pictures and some apt commentary. Mostly the pictures will be taken around Cork, but I do travel occasionally…Technorati Tags: […]

The statistics do not lie, especially when they are repeated year after year. Computer Science faces a rocky future in Ireland. When other countries like India are pushing computer science in a big way, Ireland has seen numbers applying for computer science third-level courses in a freefall.
Yesterdays leaving certificate results show that, once again, the […]

With version 5.0 of MySQL, the database now has many ‘corporate’ features more common to the likes of Oracle and DB2. One of those features is the stored programming feature with an ANSI SQL:2003 compliant procedural language supporting stored procedures, triggers and views.
In the upcoming August edition of Linux Magazine I have a 6 page […]

I am just a couple of days away from finishing my fifth article for Linux Magazine. The subject is MySQL 5 Stored Procedures, Triggers and Views.
It’s been a while coming. I consciously decided to take a break from writing articles while I finished a project for CIT. With the project presented and now fully submitted […]

I was sceptical about Web 2.0(sm?) and so were many of my colleagues. We thought that it was a cynical exercise by O’Reilly to perpetuate a wishy washy idea that could only further their own goals. It actually turns out we were right all along and this letter proves it.
I believe this will signal the […]