11 Jan
I haven’t talked about it here on the blog before but I thought I would take this opportunity provided by the bad Irish weather, and the even worse ability of Irish people to adapt to said weather to discuss my project. The opportunity provided, by the way, is that an exam scheduled for today has [...]
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Tags: amsterdam, blip, city, cnet, college, computer, dcu, dissertation, dit, dublin, facebook, final year, fm, fyp, google, information, institute, last, media, project, rss, science, sclsrch, semantic, social, status update, systems, technology, tweet, twitter, university, universtaat, vrije, vu, web, yahoo
17 Nov
When I was a kid, clouds were occasionally fluffy things in the sky, that more often then not – being in Ireland – rained down an incredible amount of dirty water on our heads. As a teenager, Cloud was some sort of homo-erotic character from Final Fantasy games. Games I never, ever played and as [...]
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Tags: apple, broadband, cloud, computing, docs, doomsday, electro, emp, fight club, final fantasy, folding@home, game, Games, gmail, google, jack, magnetic, marla, me, mobile, mobileme, movies, music, netflix, online, onlive, playstation, pulse, spotify, stanford, subscriptions, terrorists, university, wave, youtube
06 Nov
I’m a student in Dublin Institute of Technology, and around this time of year, students preparing to graduate from their courses usually get given access to graduate fares and talks by various companies. In Ireland this usually boils down to a few major corporations and a general free-for-all with stands and the like. Microsoft held [...]
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Tags: career, careers, cartoon, city, college, dcu, degree, dit, dublin, fare, female, girls, goth, graduate, institute, insulting, masters, microsoft, nerds, patronising, programmer, science, sexy, techie, technology, university, vixen, women
