Hackety Hack

26Apr07

_why has just released Hackety Hack, a starter kit for kids who want to learn to program. It’s Ruby and is aimed at kids 13 and over. As someone who got their first introduction to programming writing BASIC on an Apple II1 many moons ago, I think this is incredibly cool. I [...]

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One Man, One %TEXT NOT FOUND%

25Apr07

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Apparently An Taoiseach thinks that we’re the laughing stock of Europe for not rolling out eVoting (see this RTE News article). Hmm… I’m sure they’re having a good laugh at us in France right now where their Nedap voting machines, the same ones we currently have in warehouses, are causing [...]

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WordPress Fun

24Apr07

I guess I haven’t been stressing WordPress until now but yesterday’s post didn’t quite work out as planned. I’m probably trying to be a bit too fancy with the layout but because I’m using WordPress’ free hosting1 and don’t have as much control over the layout as I’d like I had to hack it [...]

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Buy Our Anti-Skin Failure Elixir Before It’s Too Late!

23Apr07

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Olvier Ansaldi beat me to the punch1 on a small piece that appeared in this morning’s edition of the free Dublin newspaper Metro2:
Four in every five blogs on popular websites contain potentially offensive content, such as pornography, new research claims. Computer software firm ScanSafe, which commissioned the report [...]
You know, I’m [...]

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BarCamp Dublin Report

22Apr07

BarCamp Dublin took place yesterday. It was my first BarCamp but certainly won’t be my last. It was a lot of fun and there was a great turnout. The venue in the Digital Exchange building, part of the Digital Hub in Dublin, was a good one but there were persistent internet connectivity problems throughout the [...]

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