My Name is my Domain

Chris Gallagher included me on his list so here goes with mine…

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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Take “My Adds” and move them into the “My Originals” list.
  4. Add 3 Brand New Narcissistic Bloggers that you know of

My Adds:

The Originals:

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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):

  1. Ian and “Gift Grub” Roy talk about meeting the real Roy Keane
  2. Roy Interview – Part 1 (serious)
  3. 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 …