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Of course I’m forever a cynic. And believe me it is worth being so at times. Even more so these days,  but apparently a French and British submarine collided “somewhere in the Atlantic.” And  a couple of Russian naval vessels deposited 300 tonnes of heavy fuel oil as a result of a refuelling incident just [...]

And explained with spiffy 3D animations and narrated by Sebastian Vettel

Tired of looking at blurry images on the T.V?  Trying to get a good look at a picture that makes up the dots on a printed paper? And fed up at tiny little images on the online edition? Have a look at this: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/02/bushfires_in_victoria_australi.html They have an RSS feed for their Big Picture series and [...]

Ever heard a song on the radio, television or wherever and wondered what it was and by whom? Yesterday I was poking about the Apple app store just to see if there was anything new of interest there. I came across Shazam and figured I would give it a whirl. It claims to recognise any [...]

Just tried to get on to the RTE News website and was greeted with this lovely error message. It looks like they use Squid as a reverse proxy/load balancer like myself. Well it seems that at the moment their backend servers have fallen off the face of the planet!

I had the fortune to meet Bernie Goldbach today at college. Today is the 10th anniversary of the founding of Tipperary Institute and there was a tree planting ceremony to mark the occassion. With the ceremony over I got chatting to Bernie who is a lecturer at college. In the course of our chat he [...]

I’ve been playing around with my iPhone and installing various bits and pieces of software on it. The built in GPS is a great novelty feature and I found a lovely free app on the iTunes store that will plot my current location on Google Maps. The service is called instamapper and they seem to [...]

Came across this via Stumbleupon but I can’t find the original link! Anyway, here is a car park starting to fill up for the morning. It’s absolutely mesmorising! Try and spot the muppet who tried to reverse in and and failed leaving the car parked diagonally. I’m sure we have all seen prime examples of [...]