So I’m at home for easter, they just got broadband; and I decide it’s time to try second life (even tho I’ve been slagging it for ages). Anyway, it’s actually pretty neat. Where do I decide to go when I’m in Second Life? - Dublin of course! I discovered that someone used a TCD photo [...]
Yep, It was nice knowing you. I have to concur with Jasdev that 2006 was a year of unlearning, unlearning loads of little prejudices or at least recognising them, not malicious prejudices against people, but rather assumptions on the validity of concepts I had taken for granted. In terms of actions, some memorable ones were [...]
So, no posts for a long time. So much has happened in the intervening time between this and the predecessor post.
In a nutshell, I:
did not complete Google Summer of Code :/
travelled to America - Boston and New York mostly
bought a Macbook Pro while I was there (also a nice 20″ widescreen Dell monitor)
came back, [...]
I went to see Buck 65 for the second time with Gareth last week in Whelans. Just like the last time, he autographed my ticket. Such a cool guy. I really have respect for modern artists like him, he’s not afraid of change, and knows his loyal fanbase will support him and bring him Winegums. [...]
I’ve started playing with colinux on my laptop yesterday and got it to boot my dapper partition. I’m very impressed. It’ll come in handy sometime. (I usually run windows *yuck* on my laptop to play flash or some propriatary format or just to try out some software)
I’ve been wanting for ages to use my laptop [...]
What am I talking about?
The internet no less! Who would’ve thought, that it’s not a big truck. What genius of human civilization? Senator Ted Stevens that’s who.
You have GOT to listen to this MP3 of him talking to the Senate Commerce committee.
It’s more than suspicious how much he seems to care for ‘the consumer’, even [...]
Their lives are forever immortalized on the interweb.
Big shoutout to sarah and ronan
Yep, I moved house successfully, however it caused quite a bit of disrupution during the previous week.
Soc-wise, I’ve still been looking at code, Qt networking is pretty nice. Still have been looking at Justin’s code and thinking more about the design of the whole thing. I want to adapt his service browsing code to be [...]
My last post was complaining about QCA2, (wasn’t qmake’s fault!) that turned out to not be such a big problem after all. The linker (when compiling the tools) was looking for the qca library in the system directory, which of course contained QCA1. I solved it very ungracefully by writing over the system qca lib [...]
Ah, we all knew it was going to happen, Bill stepping down that is.
I did not get to see tonight's Newsnight program, but I quote the website:
Imagine the world without Microsoft.
It's not easy, if you have anything to do with computers.
My only response can be, actually I do have something to do with computers [...]
