I’m not scared
Posted on December 6th, 2008 by Paul
While we’re on the 1980’s here is a great Pet Shop Boys song done with Patsy Kensit (forget the 8th Wonder title).
Misleading Obesity in Ireland
Posted on December 4th, 2008 by Paul
From the Irish Times today, it seems like Obesity is now affecting one in five pregnant women. This is absolutely crazy. For a government running out of ideas, how about a tax proposal that would target obesity in the same way that alcohol and tobacco addition is targeted. How about a huge tax increase on all foods that have a fat proportion of over a certain level and then a sliding scale below that. One of the most laughable things I found on my last trip to Ireland was on the back of a pack of Tayto crips was a statistic that 2500 calories were the standing level for a man. Since I’ve been using Gyminee to track diet and exercise, the figure is close to 1700 for me. When is misleading packaging like that on Tayto (which I love by the way) going to be tackled in Ireland?
Rural broadband
Posted on December 3rd, 2008 by Paul
FT reports on a rural broadband initiative in the UK. I’d love to see something like this being adopted in Ireland.
Not yet two years old, it is estimated to have brought in hundreds of thousands of pounds of investment by enabling entrepreneurs to thrive in areas that would have once been off limits, with 50,000 rural businesses now in reach of a fast internet connection.
Infrastructure investment is a mantra that has been heard from too long from the current Irish government. However, when it has come to prescient action, the efforts so far have look flat-footed and slow.
“We are levelling the playing field with urban areas,” said Andy Lister, marketing director of NYnet. Private companies have little incentive to build networks in sparsely populated areas and the costs for businesses increase the further they are from the exchange.
Newsweek forces Dan Lyons to quit blogging
Posted on November 19th, 2008 by Paul
First it was Fake Steve Jobs, now it’s Real Dan Lyons.
A frustrated Dan Lyons told me this afternoon that he is hanging up his personal blog at RealDanLyons.com after his Newsweek bosses made him yank a blog post where Lyons (rightfully) called Yahoo’s PR staff “lying sacks of shit.”
Did anyone at Newsweek actually read Fake Steve? Those viciously funny barbs were the main attraction of the blog.
gMail chat now available for voice and video
Posted on November 12th, 2008 by Paul
Google adds video and voice to gMail chat. There’s still quite a feature lag to Skype or Yahoo Messenger.
My iPAQ just died
Posted on November 5th, 2008 by Paul
That was the second one but I don’t think I will be buying another. I liked the fact that it was pocketable but the lack of a keyboard was ultimately too annoying to be really loved. Not since the Psion 5mx of the 1990’s have I used a machine that was both pocketable and had a tiny keyboard that I was able to touch-type on after a little adjustment and training. It seems that I am not the only to have missed it. On many forums that address the topics of Ultra Mobile Notebooks, netbooks, MIDs or PDAs, there is a constant chatter of users who long for an updated device that could match the ergonomics or the Psions or the Journada. Why don’t designers at Asus or Dell or HP listen to that demand?
That was the reason for the initial success of the first eee pc from Asus but it didn’t go far enough. It’s still too big. But, with the curent choices of what is available on the market, the newer version with the longer lasting battery maybe the best choice.
Getting into mobile internet
Posted on October 30th, 2008 by Paul
I’m a late adopter when it comes to using the internet on a phone. This has mainly come about due to the dearth of services that were available, my reluctance to commit to any type of contract and I wanted to get away from being online when I am away from the office or my apartment. However, now that I do a weekly commute and the fact that the train services I use don’t have any wireless services meant that I was out of touch for long spells on Mondays and Fridays. That was annoying when it meant being out of the loop while news was breaking on Monday or social plans were being made on Friday. This all came to a head when I needed a new phone and after a terrible experiment with an Lg, I found a review of the nokia 6220 classic on youtube that suggested it had the features of the N82 but without the huge pricetag. I got it and I got a kick out of using features like GPS, google maps, twitter, etc. However, the frequency and cost of topping up my credit was a problem. I went into t-mobile in Munich and they offered me a priceplan of 10 Euro a month but I had to commit to a contract. Since then, I haven’t looked back. My costs have good down, my train journeys are not so boring and now I’ve written my first blog post on the phone. Have a nice weekend.
Global Air Traffic over 24 hours
Posted on October 26th, 2008 by Paul
Beautiful simulation of the amount of air traffic that happens every day throughout the world.
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