It’s an old link but still makes me laugh … why yes, it’s Dilberts Mission Statement generator …
Month: March 2007
64GB Solid State Disk – another milestone
Samsung have unveiled plans to ship a whopping 64GB on a mere 1.8 inch solid state drive. I wonder how long it will be before we carry such capacity around on our key rings. No pricing has been published yet though …
Source: Digital Trends
My Name is my Domain
Chris Gallagher included me on his list so here goes with mine…
***Start Copying Here***
- Write a short introduction paragraph about what how you found the list and include a link to the blog that referred you to the list.
- COPY the ENTIRE List below and add it to your blog. To avoid duplicate content and increase the amount of keywords your site can accessible for, go ahead and change the titles of the blog. Just don’t change the links of the blog.
- Take “My Adds†and move them into the “My Originals†list.
- Add 3 Brand New Narcissistic Bloggers that you know of
My Adds:
The Originals:
- Cormac Moylan
- James Mernin
- Damien Hayes
- Chris Gallagher
- Brian Delahunty
- Jonathan Newman
- Paul M. Watson
- MÃcheál Ó Foghlú
- Jonathan Brazil
- Bob Buskirk
- Jon Waraas
- David Lithman
- Gary Lee
- Ed Lau
- John Chow dot Com
- Nate Whitehill
- Stephen Fung
- Michael Kwan
- Jeff Kee
- Stuart Hannig
- Hannes Johnson
- Nomar
- Nathan Drach
- Saman Sadeghi
***Stop Copying Here***
Roy meets Roy
If you get a few minutes, check out these classic interviews with Roy Keane on the Today FM Breakfast Show. They are particularly brilliant because, in the last one, the interviewer is also Roy Keane (otherwise known as Mario Rosenstock, the voice behind most of the characters from the Gift Grub sketches).
In all there were 3 interviews but the last one is the best (in my opinion):
- Ian and “Gift Grub” Roy talk about meeting the real Roy Keane
- Roy Interview – Part 1 (serious)
- Roy meets Roy (hilarious!)
Superb Radio!
Life after Research and careers in research
I heard an interesting discussion on Irish Radio last week (The Last Word on Today FM) about what it means to have a career in research in Ireland. It featured Dr. Tim Yeomans (Post Doctoral Researcher at Trinity College, Dublin) and Professor Michael Ryan (Professor of Computing at Dublin City University).
The discussion centered around the career prospects (job security, career structure) for Irish researchers and whether or not we have missed the boat in terms of the Knowledge Economy. They also talked about why very few private sector companies are willing to invest in Research & Development at present.
Click here to listen to a PodCast of the show (the article starts at around 5 minutes, 45 seconds in). I didn’t catch the entire piece but the bits I did hear were quite interesting.
Also recently published (with the same theme) was an article entitled The Post-Doctoral Research Experience in Ireland (in a recent edition of EmbarkReview, a publication by the Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering and Technology).
Undeleting a file in Subversion
It would appear that Subversion does not support a direct “undelete” command so here is one way to recover/undelete a file that was previously removed from a Subversion repository. The 955 is the version of the repository where the file last existed.
$ svn cp -r 955 http://svn.domain.com/reponame/pathtofile/foo.bar foo.bar
A foo.bar
$ svn commit -m "Undeleted this file" foo.bar
Best of luck!
TWUIK from Tricast Media
TWUIK is the name of a UI technology developed by Tricast Media that claims to bring flash-like graphics, animations and advanced user interactivity to mobile application development. They have provided a very good website containing lots of impressive screen shots, demos and a good tutorial on how to create a Media Center Application using TWUIK.
It looks to be a very interesting product and I’ll certainly be downloading a trial copy …
Setting vim to be the default editor
Ever wondered how to change the default editor on your Ubuntu system? Well, thank to this article, it is now very easy to do this. I had always used the EDITOR envrionment variable but that always seemed a less reliable way of doing the same thing.
Thanks to Michele Neylon’s post for finding this …