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Yesterday came the long awaited publication of the Dr. Port report with respect to WIT’s request for re-designation to university status for the Southeast region of Ireland. You can download the report here. My first reading of the report was somewhat downhearted as I eagerly desired to see passages of highly supportive text and great…
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Bloody Orange Originally uploaded by jbwan I’ve seen a blood orange before but I’ve never seen an orange that bleeds? This was the disturbing image that I was presented with over lunch today. What really got me was that this was some form of hybrid or so it would seem. Part of it was orange…
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Earlier this week I was very happy to hear that Ryanair were teaming up with FBD insurance to offer “low-cost” car insurance to the Irish market. Both on the media press releases and on the website Ryanair proudly say: Straight-forward, low cost car insuranceWelcome to Ireland’s new low cost, value for money car insurance. Right…
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I have lived and worked in Waterford for most of my life, I dearly love my city and county. I was educated through 2 degrees at WIT and each day that goes by, I meet with some brilliant person that has somehow been attracted to Waterford by WIT. For me the upgrade of WIT to…
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My T-Shock ““it doesn’t tell the time but if it did tell the time then it wouldn’t have been the right time, and the time it told wasn’t what it meant to tell, and for that it was sorry that it told the right time even though it didn’t think that it told time”“ Â …
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Poor Bertie; he’s gone to the high court to challenge the constitutionality of the Mahon tribunal’s usage of his Dail statements. You’ve got to hand it to the man, he always makes it sound like he’s protecting the country even when he’s clearly got his own interests at heart. Of course he insists that he’s…
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TrollTech have updated their mobile Qt framework to include the WebKit browser. This is fantastic news for everyone who wants the full range of luxury web 2.0 services running on their handsets. Bad news for Nokia however who are currently interested in buying TrollTech as this will surely push their price up. The announcement regarding…
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Just read this over on Tom Raftery’s blog, the latest version of Safari is starting to speed up, quite significantly, up to 250% quicker in fact. Wow! source: Computer World
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Exif Jpeg header and thumbnail manipulator program works well with perl scripts (tags: exif data time date photo organise) exifsort.pl – Sort digital images by EXIF date. at nooblet.org possibly the greatest perl script that I have found in the last 5 years, not because it’s well-written but because it saved me time and money…
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DLink DNS-323 “Looking for a NAS solution that’s reliable, quiet and offers RAID features at an affordable price? Look no further than the DLink DNS-323!“ Ever since I had a hard drive failure last year that stood to cost me a lot of money in code I had written, I have been on the lookout…