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August 4, 2005

podcast

Garth Stack and myself have a podcast; Technolotics is an irreverent look at technology, politics and the media.
odeo link
check it out

August 3, 2005

10 year sentence for not revealing encrypted information to police in UK

Sir Ian Blair, Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, will this week propose a 10-year mandatory minimum sentence for anyone refusing to provide police with details of how to access encrypted information on their computers.
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July 26, 2005

emo :(

You are sorta emo. You listen to Radiohead and enjoy their eclectic sound, but haven’t pushed past into the underground indie subculture. The closest to emo attire that you own is maybe a few band t-shirts and tight jeans.
AreYouEmo.com
That’s true

July 23, 2005

My Hair (or now lackthereof)

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Originally uploaded by jasm.
Thought people may be interested to know that I changed my hairstyle just a little bit today…

July 4, 2005

Cool pics of the Prandtl-Glauert condensation cloud phenomenon

Pics
More information on this phenomenon can be found here

June 28, 2005

Extracting video from cat brains

Scroll down for cool pictures. First published in the September 15, 1999 issue of the Journal of Neuroscience and was the first demonstration that spatiotemporal natural scenes can be reconstructed from the ensemble responses of visual neurons.
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June 22, 2005

Bank of Ireland ATMs run Windows NT

I noticed that the bank of Ireland ATM beside the dining hall runs Windows NT today. It had an error message claiming that is was ok to switch off your computer now.
It looked quite similar to this:

June 20, 2005

Hiking the Dublin Mountains

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Originally uploaded by jasm.
Myself and John Bayne hiked the Dublin mounains yesterday. It took 6 hours. We both got pretty bad sunburn however as the weather got really good when we were up there.

June 17, 2005

Is Linux For Losers?

Sure, Linux is popular, but fans of the OpenBSD operating system think they’ve got something better.
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June 16, 2005

Google’s Site Ranking Secrets

Google have recently filed a US patent which reveals a great deal of how they rank your web site. Some of it you could never of guessed at…
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