It may seem trivial (and even archaic) to some readers, but take it from me, this is a really big deal in this part of the country and so very long overdue. At long last, the Sunny South East will be a perfectly manageable (and comfortable) distance from our capital city, and should make day-trips, holidays and visiting friends and family and much less stressful experience.

Source: RTÉ News

This reminded me of a related article from earlier this year which talked about the World’s Critical Infrastructure and which included a basic time line of some of the word’s undersea cables:

• 1850: First international telegraph link, England-France, later cables joined other European countries & USA with Canada.
• 1858: First trans-Atlantic cable laid between Ireland & Newfoundland; failed after 26 days & new cable was laid in 1866.
• 1866: First trans-Atlantic (copper) cable carried telegraph messages at 12 words a minute. These cables were promoted as the eighth wonder of the world emphasizing cooperation between UK and the United States.
• 1884: First underwater telephone cable service from San Francisco to Oakland.
• 1920: Short-wave radio superseded cables for voice, picture & telex traffic.
• 1956: First trans-Atlantic (TAT-1) telephone cable initially had a capacity of 36 telephone calls at a time; calls cost $12 for the first 3 minutes. Invention of repeaters (1940s) & their use in TAT-1.
• 1961: Beginning of high quality, global network.
• 1986: First international fiber-optic cable joins Belgium & UK.
• 1988: First Atlantic fiber-optic cable, TAT-8, had a capacity for 40,000 simultaneous phone calls, 10 times that of the last copper cable. This is when submarine cables started to outperform satellites in terms of the volume.
• Today: Each fiber pair within a cable has the capacity to carry information including video that is equivalent to 150,000,000 simultaneous phone calls. Almost all transoceanic telecommunications are now routed via the submarine cable network instead of satellite.

The failure after just 26 days of the first cable to be laid from Ireland made me smile.

Source: CircleID, 26 April 2010

cannot read biosint
trap type 13 (0xd) err code 0x98b8 eip=0x0
...lots of register and stack trace data...
panic: corrupted boot archive . . . boot loader
Press any key to reboot

We found the instructions detailed here resolved this issue for us (although the error message is not exactly the same).

Well done on a fantastic job!

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A number of our recent press releases were covered in a variety of online publications:

• App economy erases barriers to growth for young firms (Silicon Republic, 27 May 2010)
• Silver Lining in the Cloud for South East Start-Up (Waterford Today, 19 May 2010)
• FeedHenry Spins out in Waterford (Silicon Republic, 10 May 2010)
• FeedHenry Poised for Explosive Growth (Enterprise Ireland, 7 May 2010)
• Silver Lining in the Cloud for South East Start-Up (City Local, 6 May 2010)
• FeedHenry, a TSSG Spin-Out Success (Waterford Institute of Technology, 6 May 2010)
• Silver lining for Waterford tech spin off (Business World Ireland, 5 May 2010)
• FeedHenry Spins out in Waterford (Silicon Republic, 5 May 2010)
• Waterford IT spins out IT firm FeedHenry (Business & Leadership, 5 May 2010)
• FeedHenry spins out in Waterford (Biz Startup, 5 May 2010)
• FeedHenry spins out in Waterford (One Page News, 5 May 2010)
• Cathal McGloin joins Waterford startup (Irish Times, 5 May 2010)

Some of the articles are obviously duplicates of the main press releases but the breadth of coverage is still very welcome.

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FeedHenry is the leading innovator in pay-as-you-go cloud solutions for building and deploying cross-platform business and telecoms apps that will run natively on all smartphones, social media sites and browser start-pages from a single code base. We specialise in the development of sophisticated business and telecoms apps, that need to operate across mobile and social media channels, and which require business logic and storage in the cloud, secure integration with existing IT and telecoms systems and delivered to our customers as a complete end-to-end solution with full app lifecycle management and analytics.

Liveplasma maps and displays music and movie search results with linkages and groupings, making a good use of Amazon.com’s API. After the search term is submitted, it’s immediately surrounded by other artists; the closer they are, the more similar they are in style to the target. The user can search, map, discover new movies or artists then save and share their maps.

It really is quite a lot of fun to use, and good for discovering similar bands to ones you already listen to. It’s also good for finding movies with your favourite actor that you may not have seen before.

I also noticed on Michele Neylon’s recent article that the Last FM Playground project looks to be doing something along the same lines. I wonder if the are also using the Amazon APIs.

You might need to dismiss the help overlay (blue X button in top right corner) to see the map more clearly. The grey overlay (circa 16 April 2010) shows the Volcanic Ash from the volcano in Iceland, and as was mentioned today, it is so rare to see the entire northern section of England and all of Ireland completely barren of any flights.

The site is more impressive during the day when there are more flights in the air.

Rocky was honoured by his native Tramore in 2010 when he was asked to be the grand marshal of the Tramore St. Patrick’s Day parade.

Whilst walking by the starting point of parade on the day in question, I was fortunate enough to overhear the following priceless conversation between a young girl and her father, who was obviously a fan, which went as follows:

Girl: “Look Dad, it’s Elvis”
Dad: “Why, that’s not Elvis …… that’s Rocky Mills!”

You can watch a full documentary made about Rocky Mills in 2006 on YouTube.

Source: RTÉ News