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Well I guess it was inevitable but the rollover of yesterday into today saw my car taken off the road due to the unjustified cost of insurance in this country. You’d think that with a couple of years claim/accident free driving with a full licence that it would make some difference towards reaching a realistic…
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Interesting read from the blog of Jon Udell where he interviews Ward Cunningham (inventor of WiKi) about the current strain of XP (extreme programming) and how the “job” generally gets done. Read on Jon Udell: Refactoring the business
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Well I guess with all the nonsense going on at this time in the world it is only natural that a press story like this should exist. Sort of on the lines of “think not what you can hack for your country but what your country can hack for you”. Read the full article on…
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Well it’s lunch time and I’m hungry but still I can’t resist one more XML-based entry to my blog. This time around I have encapsulated some of my personal information in a FOAF file (an RDF description of myself). FOAF stands for Friend Of A Friend and you can create your own FOAF simply enough…
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Well since the whole world is gone Geo-sensitive and the blogging community is being engulfed by a geo-location service known as GeoURL. I too have decided to link up my site. The little green button below the search facility on the main page of this blog will help you to view my neighbours in cyberspace.…
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It’s about 4 months now since I first read about Amazon opening up its databases to queries from web services. Some have dubbed it the Amazon API 🙂 However, it’s only now that I have gotten around to reading a little more about the service and a tutorial from Developer Shed that I fully realise…
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Interesting blog entry from Mark Pilgrim about what happened to all those wonderful standards released by the W3C. It seems like a reasonable snapshot of how too many working groups and activities can render a standard unused. Worthwhile reading Semantic obsolescence [dive into mark]
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Yet another digital indentifier is attempting to stop the online music sharing problems for record companies. CNN have the full story so read on…
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The latest add-ons for the mobile computing user. Everyone needs a keyboard for typing any amount of text on a PDA but keyboards are bulky and not that mobile. Could projection keyboards be the answer MÃcheál Ó Foghlú’s Weblog
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Just read an entry on MÃcheál’s weblog about how to set yourself up as a wireless ISP. With my new house looming large on the horizon I think I may even take the plunge by setting it up as a hotspot 🙂