Archive of Bart Busschots’ Blog

This site contains the exported content from Bart Busschots’s blog which was hosted at www.bartb.ie/s/ for many years. This site is still very much a work in progress, a lot of the formatting and so forth is a mess ATM, but please be patient, it will get better 🙂

Posts

Aug 13, 2022
Tasty but Heathy Cauliflower Recipes
Mar 27, 2021
1 iPhone, 1 Scene, 3 Lenses, 3 Photos, 3 Stories — Why Zoom Range Matters
Oct 15, 2020
Fixing "Failed to connect to settings endpoint" Error in Microsoft Teams App on the Mac
Sep 6, 2020
Pondering Apple's App Store Conundrum
Jul 26, 2020
TTT Part 39 of n - Advanced TMUX
Jul 11, 2020
TTT Part 38 of n - TMUX (A Screen Alternative)
Jun 16, 2020
PBS 98 of X — Building with Classes Part 1: Has-A
Jun 16, 2020
PBS 97 of X — Class Data Attributes & Functions
Jun 16, 2020
PBS 96 of X — World Clock Challenge Solution
May 3, 2020
PBS 95 of X — Better JavaScript Class Attributes
May 3, 2020
PBS 94 of X — Basic JavaScript OO with Class
Apr 12, 2020
Emma Busschotsâ€“Marien 1930—2020
Apr 7, 2020
PBS 93 of X — Encapsulation with JavaScript Objects
Mar 22, 2020
PBS 92 of X — Currency Converter Table Challenge
Mar 6, 2020
MacOS Quick Actions for Text
Feb 26, 2020
Generating SSH Keys on Windows with PuTTYgen
Feb 23, 2020
PBS 91 of X — JavaScript RE Objects
Feb 9, 2020
PBS 90 of X — JavaScript Wrapper Objects
Feb 8, 2020
PBS Tidbit 1 of Y — Display Values are not Data!
Jan 25, 2020
PBS 89 of X — Currency Converter Challenge
Dec 15, 2019
PBS 88 of X — DOM & jQuery Objects Redux
Dec 1, 2019
PBS 87 of X — JavaScript Iterators Objects & Generator Functions
Nov 15, 2019
PBS 86 of X — JavaScript Function Objects (Redux & Update)
Nov 3, 2019
PBS 85 of X — Objects as Arrays in JavaScript (Redux & Update)
Oct 19, 2019
PBS 84 of X — Objects as Dictionaries in JavaScript (Redux & Update)
Oct 4, 2019
PBS 83 of X — Bootstrap Cards
Sep 21, 2019
PBS 82 of X — Async & Await
Jul 26, 2019
Right-click to Copy File Contents to Clipboard on macOS with Automator
Jul 13, 2019
PBS 81 of X — The JavaScript Promise Utilities
Jun 17, 2019
Moving my .bashrc to .zshrc
Jun 17, 2019
Moving from Bash to Zsh on macOS
Jun 14, 2019
PBS 80 of X — JavaScript Promise Chains
Jun 13, 2019
Bash to Zsh: Allowing Comments in Interactive Shells
Jun 12, 2019
Getting Back to Bash from Zsh on MacOS
Jun 12, 2019
Bash to Zsh: File Globbing and 'no matches found' Errors
Jun 6, 2019
Getting a Bash-like Prompt in Zsh
Jun 4, 2019
Crypt::HSXKPasswd on MacOS (File::HomeDir workaround)
Jun 1, 2019
PBS 79 of X — Introducing Javascript Promises
May 18, 2019
PBS 78 of X — is.js & Bootstrap Popovers
May 4, 2019
PBS 77 of X — More Callbacks & More AJAX
Apr 20, 2019
PBS 76 of X — AJAX with jQuery
Apr 6, 2019
PBS 75 of X — AJAX Intro
Mar 24, 2019
PBS 74 of X — More Mustaches
Mar 10, 2019
PBS 73 of X — Mustache Templates
Mar 8, 2019
So Facebook isn't Freepi Anymore?
Mar 7, 2019
Free-for-Personal-Information, or Freepi
Mar 6, 2019
Free, Freemium, Free-for-now & Freepi
Feb 23, 2019
PBS 72 of X — HTML5 Templates
Feb 9, 2019
PBS 71 of X — Bootstrap Spinners
Jan 27, 2019
PBS 70 of X — Bootstrap Modals & Toasts
Jan 13, 2019
PBS 69 of X — Bootstrap Navbars
Dec 16, 2018
PBS 68 of X — Bootstrap Navs
Dec 2, 2018
PBS 67 of X — Introducing Bootstrap Dropdowns
Nov 4, 2018
PBS 66 of X — Bootstrap Form Validation
Oct 20, 2018
PBS 65 of X — Bootstrap Input Groups
Oct 4, 2018
PBS 64 of X — Bootstrap Form Layouts
Sep 23, 2018
PBS 63 of X — Bootstrap Buttons
Sep 16, 2018
PBS 62 of X — A Basic Bootstrap Form
Aug 30, 2018
PBS 61 of X — Bootstrap Jumbotrons & Badges
Aug 12, 2018
PBS 60 of X — Bootstrap & jQuery
Jul 28, 2018
PBS 59 of X — More Bootstrap Breakpoints
Jul 14, 2018
PBS 58 of X — Bootstrap Breakpoints
Jun 30, 2018
PBS 57 of X — The Bootstrap Grid
Jun 16, 2018
PBS 56 of X — More Bootstrap Content
Jun 2, 2018
PBS 55 of X — Bootstrap Content
May 19, 2018
PBS 54 of X — More Bootstrap Utilities
May 5, 2018
PBS 53 of X — Bootstrap Utilities
Mar 31, 2018
PBS 52 of X — Introducing Bootstrap 4
Mar 3, 2018
PBS 51 of x — Cellular Automata Wrap-up
Feb 18, 2018
PBS 50 of x — A Worked Example (Object Explorer)
Feb 3, 2018
PBS 49 of x — Improving Our Cellular Automata
Jan 20, 2018
PBS 48 of x - A Closer Look at 'this' and 'static'
Jan 6, 2018
PBS 47 of x - ES6 Polymorphism
Dec 20, 2017
PBS 46 of x - ES6 Spread Operator, Arrow Functions & Classes
Dec 10, 2017
PBS 45 of x - ES6 Arrays & Strings
Nov 26, 2017
PBS 44 of x - ES6 Arguments & Objects
Nov 24, 2017
Automatically Adding Screenshots to Yoink with Hazel (Take 1)
Nov 24, 2017
Automatically adding Screenshots to Yoink with Hazel (Improved)
Nov 12, 2017
PBS 43 of x - Introducing JavaScript ES6
Oct 29, 2017
PBS 42 of x - Playing the Game of Life
Oct 13, 2017
PBS 41 of x - Form Events
Sep 29, 2017
PBS 40 of x - HTML5 Custom Validations with jQuery
Sep 15, 2017
PBS 39 of x - HTML5 Form Validation
Sep 1, 2017
PBS 38 of x - Taking Stock
Jul 8, 2017
PBS 37 of x - JSDoc Demo
Jun 25, 2017
PBS 36 of x - More HTML Text Input | More Cellular Automata
Jun 9, 2017
Getting Fit with Tech - One Year On
Jun 5, 2017
FYI - Expect Changes & Some Disruption
May 25, 2017
TTT Part 37 of n - SSH Agents
May 19, 2017
PBS 35 of x - HTML Text Input | Introducing 'Life'
May 12, 2017
bartificer.linkToolkit.js Version 1.0 Released
May 4, 2017
Science Podcast Recommendations
May 4, 2017
backup.pl Version 0.2 Released
Apr 30, 2017
PBS 34 of x - More JS Testing with QUnit
Apr 13, 2017
PBS 33 of x - JS Testing with QUnit
Mar 30, 2017
Spectacle - Another Mac Window Tiler
Mar 28, 2017
Magnet - A Mac Window Tiler
Mar 14, 2017
PBS 32 of x - JS Error Handling Revision | HTML Selects
Mar 1, 2017
PBS 31 of x - JS Static Functions | Checkboxes & Radio Buttons
Feb 17, 2017
PBS 30 of x - Comparing JS Objects | Introducing WAI-ARIA
Feb 3, 2017
PBS 29 of x - JS Prototype Revision | Glyph Icons
Jan 20, 2017
PBS 28 of x - JS Prototype Revision | CSS Attribute Selectors & Buttons
Dec 31, 2016
PBS 27 of x - JS Prototype Revision | HTML Forms
Dec 13, 2016
Couch to Star Gazer (Astro 2 December 2016)
Dec 10, 2016
PBS 26 of x - HTML Data Attributes with jQuery
Nov 23, 2016
PBS 25 of x - A Case Study (bartificer.linkToolkit.js)
Nov 19, 2016
TTT Part 36 of n - screen & cron
Nov 1, 2016
Review - Trekz Titanium from AfterShokz
Oct 28, 2016
PBS 24 of x - Creating a JavaScript API
Oct 12, 2016
PBS 23 of x - Creating Elements with jQuery
Sep 29, 2016
PBS 22 of X - jQuery Events
Sep 15, 2016
PBS 21 of X - jQuery Basics
Sep 1, 2016
PBS 20 of X - JS in the Browser
Jul 21, 2016
Losing Weight - the Nerd Way!
Jul 14, 2016
PBS 19 of X - Some JavaScript Challenges
Jul 6, 2016
PBS 18 of X - JS Miscellany
Jun 23, 2016
PBS 17 of X - JS Objects
Jun 8, 2016
PBS 16 of X - JS Callbacks
May 27, 2016
PBS 15 of X - JS Functions
May 12, 2016
PBS 14 of X - JS Loops & Arrays
Apr 12, 2016
Smiling a Little More
Apr 9, 2016
PBS 13 of X - JS Conditionals
Apr 6, 2016
A Dark Cloud Over TextExpander
Apr 1, 2016
PBS 12 of X - Introducing JavaScript
Mar 30, 2016
The IoT and your Home Network (CT Mac Connection March 2016)
Mar 17, 2016
PBS 11 of X - Tables
Mar 4, 2016
PBS 10 of X - Yet More CSS
Feb 19, 2016
PBS 9 of X - More CSS Positioning
Feb 3, 2016
PBS 8 of X - CSS Positioning
Jan 21, 2016
PBS 7 of X - More CSS
Jan 8, 2016
PBS 6 of X - Introducing CSS
Dec 30, 2015
Pretty Markdown & HTML Links With TextExpander & Perl
Dec 27, 2015
PBS 5 of X - Images & Links
Dec 23, 2015
Juul Busschots 1930 - 2015
Dec 15, 2015
<code>hsxkpasswd</code> Without <code>sudo</code> (with <code>perlbrew</code>)
Dec 1, 2015
The Christmas Star (Astro2 December 2015)
Nov 20, 2015
PBS 4 of X - HTML In-line Elements
Nov 5, 2015
PBS 3 of X - HTML Block Elements
Oct 23, 2015
PBS 2 of X - Introducing HTML
Oct 9, 2015
PBS 1 of X - Introduction
Sep 6, 2015
Using the <code>hsxkpasswd</code> Terminal Command (Part 2 of 2)
Aug 22, 2015
Using the <code>hsxkpasswd</code> Terminal Command (Part 1 of 2)
Aug 11, 2015
<code>Crypt::HSXKPasswd</code> and <code>hsxkpasswd</code> now on CPAN
Aug 8, 2015
Uninstalling a <code>Crypt::HSXKPasswd</code> Beta
Aug 8, 2015
JSON - a quick intro
Jul 19, 2015
Announcing <code>Crypt::HSXKPasswd</code> Beta 4
Jul 13, 2015
Announcing <code>Crypt::HSXKPasswd</code> Beta 3
Jul 5, 2015
TTT Part 35 of n - HTTP Commands
Jun 8, 2015
Announcing <code>Crypt::HSXKPasswd</code> Beta 2 - now with more command-line!
May 28, 2015
Installing the <code>Crypt::HSXKPasswd</code> Betas
May 28, 2015
Getting Started with <code>Crypt::HSXKPasswd</code>
May 22, 2015
XKPasswd.pm becomes Crypt::HSXKPasswd
May 9, 2015
TTT Part 34 of n - Introducing HTTP
Apr 25, 2015
TTT Part 33 of n - SSH 'Bookmarks'
Apr 6, 2015
TTT Part 32 of n - SSH Tunnelling
Apr 4, 2015
TTT Part 31 of n - SSH File Transfers
Mar 29, 2015
TTT Part 30 of n - SSHing More Securely
Mar 24, 2015
Introducing backup.pl - A Simple Perl Backup Script
Feb 14, 2015
TTT Part 29 of n - Intro to SSH
Feb 8, 2015
SubnetCalc.it re-skinned
Jan 30, 2015
TTT Part 28 of n - Network Troubleshooting
Jan 10, 2015
TTT Part 27 of n - DNS
Dec 22, 2014
TTT Part 26 of n - DHCP
Dec 12, 2014
Announcing SubnetCalc.it (and bartificer.ip.js)
Dec 7, 2014
TTT Part 25 of n - IP Subnets
Nov 23, 2014
TTT Part 24 of n - Ethernet & ARP
Nov 10, 2014
XKPasswd.net Updated
Nov 9, 2014
Why I'm No Longer Recommending FileZilla or SourceForge
Oct 25, 2014
TTT Part 23 of n - Networking Intro
Oct 24, 2014
"Behind People's Backs"
Oct 10, 2014
TTT Part 22 of n - Tips & Tricks
Oct 1, 2014
WW1 - Antwerp in 1914
Sep 30, 2014
OS X Service for Markdown Link Creation
Sep 26, 2014
TTT Part 21 of n - More Searching
Sep 14, 2014
Antwerp - Belgium's National Redoubt
Sep 7, 2014
TTT Part 20 of n - File Searches
Aug 30, 2014
Play a Sound in Automator
Aug 24, 2014
WW1 - The Canals & Railways of Mons
Aug 22, 2014
WW1 - The Railways of Namur in 1914
Aug 21, 2014
WW1 - The Forts of Namur
Aug 16, 2014
XKPasswd 2 - An Absolute Beginner's Guide
Aug 16, 2014
Creating an XKPasswd 2 OS X Service with Automator
Aug 13, 2014
Announcing XKPasswd.pm 2
Aug 12, 2014
WW1 - The Railways of LiÃ¨ge in 1914
Aug 9, 2014
WW1 - the Forts of LiÃ¨ge
Aug 9, 2014
Two Plugins to help turn Wordpress into a CMS
Aug 9, 2014
Big Changes on this Site
Jul 25, 2014
Photographing at Dusk - My Approach
Jul 19, 2014
TTT Part 19 of n - Text Searches
Jun 21, 2014
Computer Programming - A 40k Foot View
May 12, 2014
XKPasswd 2.0 - Want to Watch the Sausage get Made?
May 10, 2014
TTT Part 18 of n - More REs
May 5, 2014
Introducing Semaphorify.info
Apr 27, 2014
TTT Part 17 of n - Regular Expressions
Apr 4, 2014
So - About Mozilla's Controversial CEO
Feb 25, 2014
Bad Habits are Dangerous - Always Code Defensively!
Feb 8, 2014
TTT Part 16 of n - Crossing the Streams
Feb 2, 2014
TTT Part 15 of n - 'Plumbing'
Jan 11, 2014
TTT Part 14 of n - Aliases & Prompts
Dec 21, 2013
TTT Part 13 of n - PATH
Dec 14, 2013
TTT Part 12 of n - the Environment
Nov 22, 2013
TTT Part 11 of n - Text Files
Nov 2, 2013
TTT Part 10 of n - man
Oct 23, 2013
Presentation - Intro to Practical Astronomy
Oct 18, 2013
How the Sausage is Made
Oct 6, 2013
TTT Part 9 of n - Controlling Processes
Sep 21, 2013
TTT Part 8 of n - Processes
Jul 26, 2013
OS X Service - Word Count (and More)
Jul 19, 2013
TTT Part 7 of n - Managing Files
Jul 13, 2013
TTT Part 6 of n - More File Permissions
Jun 30, 2013
TTT Part 5 of n - File Permissions
Jun 12, 2013
OS X Service - Terminal Here
Jun 8, 2013
Photographing Satellites
May 26, 2013
TTT Part 4 of n - Navigation
May 24, 2013
Converting Unix Time Stamps to SQL Dates (ISO 8601) with Perl
May 18, 2013
Thanks Tim
May 11, 2013
TTT Part 3 of n - File Systems
May 5, 2013
The Royal Canal Shuttles
Apr 26, 2013
TTT Part 2 of n - Commands
Apr 13, 2013
TTT Part 1 of n - Command Shells
Mar 16, 2013
Follow The Money (and beware of digital underpants gnomes)
Jan 17, 2013
The 2012 RPSI Dublin Santa Specials
Dec 29, 2012
OS X Service for Stripping Geotags from JPEG Images
Dec 22, 2012
Photographing the Heavens on a Budget
Dec 22, 2012
End the Tyranny of Free
Aug 6, 2012
www.xkpasswd.net Updated
Aug 6, 2012
Announcing XKpasswd.pm Version 0.2.1
Aug 4, 2012
Making an XKpasswd Automator Action
Jul 29, 2012
Announcing XKpasswd.pm Version 0.2
Jul 16, 2012
Steve Balmer - An Illustration of his "Genius"
Jun 17, 2012
WebifyImages.pm - My Image Editing Scripts (v0.2)
Jun 16, 2012
The Big Watermarking Question
Jun 5, 2012
The RPSI Garret Fitzgerald Commemorative Rail Tour
Jun 2, 2012
Why the Death of "Save As" is a Good Thing
May 15, 2012
The RPSI Spare Link Rail Tour - 24 & 25 March 2012
May 6, 2012
Apple's Security Schizophrenia
May 6, 2012
Along Different Lines
Apr 23, 2012
The RPSI Maynooth Shuttles - 3 March 2012
Apr 9, 2012
The 2011 RPSI Santa Specials from Dublin
Apr 7, 2012
A Quick Tester for Trojan-Downloader:OSX/Flashback
Jan 29, 2012
Tips for Photographing Stars With Basic Equipment
Jan 4, 2012
It's not the Flip-flopping, it's the Dishonesty!
Jan 3, 2012
Why Did Steve Choose Walter Isaacson?
Dec 31, 2011
2011 - Looking Back at My Photographic Year
Nov 25, 2011
Perl DBD::mysql on OS X Lion
Oct 29, 2011
Pumpkin Soup
Oct 6, 2011
Remembering Steve
Oct 3, 2011
Introducing www.xkpasswd.net & xkpasswd.pm
Aug 19, 2011
OS X Lion - Maybe it's not 'iPadification' but 'Startrekification'?
Jul 1, 2011
Getting ClamXav to use a Proxy Server
Jun 1, 2011
Photo of the Week 172 - Bramble Flower
May 23, 2011
Photo of the Week 170 & 171 - Royal Canal HDR
May 15, 2011
In Defence of HDR & Tonemapping
May 11, 2011
Making the Most of Frozen Brussels Sprouts
May 10, 2011
Photo of the Week 168 & 169 - Butterflies
Apr 26, 2011
Photo of the Week 166 & 167 - Irish Rail Class 22000
Apr 21, 2011
Where Does DropBox Store the Host ID on Mac OS X?
Apr 16, 2011
DOS Gaming on the Mac Made Easy
Apr 12, 2011
Photo of the Week 164 & 165 - Summer in Rathcoffey
Apr 9, 2011
Traditional Belgian Vegetable Soup
Mar 27, 2011
Photo of the Week 163 - Jogging on the Graff
Mar 20, 2011
Photo of the Week 162 - Snowdrops in the Cemetery
Mar 17, 2011
What a Difference a Glif Makes
Mar 14, 2011
Photo of the Week 161 - Swans in Carton Estate
Mar 11, 2011
Pan Fried Pork Chops
Mar 9, 2011
Photo of the Week 160 - The Sliabh Beagh Way
Mar 2, 2011
Automator Workflow for Stripping Keywords from Images
Mar 2, 2011
Automator + Services = Image Editing Automation Heaven
Mar 1, 2011
Photo of the Week 159 - A Galway Evening
Feb 27, 2011
Leek & Potato Soup
Feb 21, 2011
Photo of the Week 158 - Back-lit Green-veined White
Feb 15, 2011
Pan-fried Salmon With Rosemary & Dill
Feb 14, 2011
Photo of the Week 157 - Ennis Friary
Feb 7, 2011
Red Lentil & Tomato Soup
Feb 6, 2011
Photo of the Week 156 - Four-Spotted Chaser
Jan 31, 2011
Photo of the Week 155 - Snowdrops
Jan 29, 2011
A Quick & Easy Oriental Salad
Jan 26, 2011
Has Belgium Hit the End of the Road?
Jan 24, 2011
Pondering US -v- EU Locomotives
Jan 23, 2011
Photo of the Week 154 - Evening Excursion
Jan 23, 2011
Lemon & Balsamic Vinegar Marinated Steak
Jan 18, 2011
Photo of the Week 153 - Ennis Friary
Jan 15, 2011
Mapping Belgium's Collieries
Jan 13, 2011
A Red Pepper Omlette
Jan 12, 2011
Photo of the Week 152 - Moon & Venus Over SPCM
Jan 5, 2011
My Bolognese Recipe
Jan 2, 2011
Photo of the Week 151 - Small Copper
Dec 31, 2010
Reflections on My Photographic 2010
Dec 28, 2010
Simple but Tasty Pan-fried Chicken
Dec 27, 2010
Photo of the Week 150 - Yarrow
Dec 22, 2010
Photo of the Week 149 - Common Darter
Dec 15, 2010
Photo of the Week 147 & 148 - Winter Trains
Dec 2, 2010
Photo of the Week 146 - Snow in Carton
Nov 24, 2010
Photo of the Week 145 - The Common Blue Damselfly
Nov 15, 2010
Photo of the Week 144 - Forget-me-not
Nov 11, 2010
Photo of the Week 143 - Autumn Boat Train
Nov 8, 2010
Longest Words Followup - Java -v- Perl
Nov 8, 2010
Longest Word With Just Half a Keyboard?
Nov 1, 2010
Photo of the Week 142 - The Common Blue
Oct 25, 2010
Photo of the Week 134 to 141 - Allison & Steve Visit Ireland
Sep 5, 2010
Photo of the Week 132 & 133 - The Royal Canal
Aug 24, 2010
Photo of the Week 130 & 131 - Two New Muses
Aug 9, 2010
Photo of the Week 129 - No. 186 Steaming West
Aug 2, 2010
Photo of the Week 127 & 128 - Big Summer Skies
Jul 31, 2010
Some Thoughts on Composition
Jul 24, 2010
Review of Money3 by Jumsoft
Jul 18, 2010
Photo of the Week 126 - Female Common Blue Butterfly
Jul 15, 2010
My Quest for a New Personal Finance App â€“ Part 2
Jul 11, 2010
Photo of the Week 125 - Soccer on the Playing Fields
Jul 6, 2010
Belgian Railway History Project - Update
Jul 4, 2010
Photo of the Week 124 - Grey Heron
Jun 27, 2010
Photo of the Week 122 & 123 - Summer in Rathcoffey
Jun 13, 2010
Photo of the Week 121 - Speeding to Dublin
Jun 7, 2010
Photo of the Week 120 - Inside Magnolia
May 30, 2010
Photo of the Week 119 - The Sliabh Beagh Way
May 29, 2010
My First Thoughts on the iPad
May 23, 2010
Photo of the Week 116, 117 & 118 - April in Belgium
May 4, 2010
Photo of the Week 114 & 115 - Sunsets
May 1, 2010
Getting from Auto to Manual
Apr 19, 2010
Why do we Need Marriage Equality? This is why!
Apr 18, 2010
Photo of the Week 112 & 113 - Remembering Autumn
Apr 10, 2010
Reflections on Apple's New iPhone Developer Agreement
Apr 4, 2010
Photo of the Week 111 - A Winter Evening Commute
Apr 4, 2010
Experimenting with Itsy (a native OS X Twitter Client)
Apr 2, 2010
Bad Friday
Mar 28, 2010
Photo of the Week 108, 109 & 110 - The Big Freeze
Mar 7, 2010
Photo of the Week 107 - The Boathouse in Autumn
Feb 28, 2010
Photo of the Week 106 - Peacock Butterfly
Feb 27, 2010
Photo of the Week 104 & 105 - Irish Wild Flowers
Feb 21, 2010
My Aperture 3 Disaster
Feb 13, 2010
My Quest for a New Personal Finance App - Part 1
Feb 7, 2010
Photo of the Week 102 & 103 - 2009 RPSI Santa Specials
Jan 27, 2010
The iPad - First Thoughts
Jan 24, 2010
Photo of the Week 101 - An Autumn Dream
Jan 23, 2010
My First Impressions of Photoshop Elements 8
Jan 17, 2010
Photo of the Week 100 - Ivy-leaved Toadflax
Jan 16, 2010
Why I Love Automater & Services in OS X 10.6 SnowLeopard
Jan 10, 2010
Photo of the Week 99 - St. Mary's Square in Autumn
Jan 3, 2010
Photo of the Week 98 - An Autumn Evening Commute
Dec 27, 2009
Photo of the Week 96 & 97 - The Beauty of Winter
Dec 26, 2009
The Orton Effect - A Quick Tutorial
Dec 13, 2009
Photo of the Week - 93, 94 & 95 - A Great Sunset
Nov 24, 2009
A Public Sector Worker's Take on Today's Strike
Nov 23, 2009
Photo of the Week 92 - A Cabbage Leaf
Nov 22, 2009
My Google Earth Railway History Project
Nov 15, 2009
Photo of the Week 91 - Comma Butterfly
Nov 8, 2009
Photo of the Week 89 & 90 - Steam Loco No. 186
Oct 26, 2009
Photo of the Week 88 - A Common Spotted Orchid
Oct 18, 2009
Photo of the Week 87 - Ennis Friary
Oct 14, 2009
Photo of the Week 86 - The Royal Canal
Oct 6, 2009
Photo of the Week 85 - Small Tortoiseshell Butterfly
Sep 27, 2009
Photo of the Week 84 - Evening Amsterdammer
Sep 20, 2009
Photo of the Week 83 - Grey Willow in Spring
Sep 14, 2009
Photo of the Week 82 - Lunar Cross (Colour)
Sep 12, 2009
A War Hero Recognised at Last
Sep 11, 2009
It Was Only an Apple Event
Sep 9, 2009
It's Only an Apple Event but I like it - My Predictions
Sep 6, 2009
Photo of the Week 81 - Autumn Shadows
Aug 30, 2009
Photo of the Week 80 - O.-L.-Vrouw van Goede Wil
Aug 24, 2009
Photo of the Week 79 - Pike Bridge Re-Visited
Aug 23, 2009
My Detailed Review of ScreenSteps
Aug 19, 2009
Twitter Login Not Secured - WTF?
Aug 16, 2009
Photo of the Week 78 - Evening at Pike Bridge
Aug 12, 2009
Photo of the Week 77 - Ennis Friary
Aug 5, 2009
Photo of the Week 76 - A Painted Lady
Aug 3, 2009
NetNewsWire - From Hero to Zero in one 'update'
Jul 28, 2009
Photo of the Week 75 - Into an Uncertain Sky
Jul 25, 2009
What's the Story with Tonemapping?
Jul 19, 2009
Photo of the Week 74 - Commuter Reflections
Jul 12, 2009
Photo of the Week 73 - Holly in Bloom
Jul 4, 2009
Photo of the Week 71 & 72 - A Cavan Sunset
Jul 4, 2009
A Quick Review of Syrinx - A Native OS X Twitter Client
Jun 25, 2009
Photo of the Week 70 - Speeding to Dublin
Jun 15, 2009
@spam - The Beginning of the End for Twitter?
Jun 14, 2009
Photo of the Week 67, 68 & 69 - Butterflies
Jun 11, 2009
Reflections on the WWDC 2009 Keynote
Jun 8, 2009
My Predictions for the WWDC 2009 Keynote
May 20, 2009
Photo of the Week 65 & 66 - Transportation in Duffel, Belgium
May 12, 2009
Photo of the Week 63 & 64 - Typical Shutter Bug Photo-Walk
May 9, 2009
REALLY Short Review of an EeePC
May 5, 2009
Installing mod_jk for Apache 2.2 on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
Apr 26, 2009
Photo of the Week 62 - A Host of Golden Daffodils
Apr 19, 2009
Photo of the Week 60 & 61 - Two Panoramic Landscapes
Apr 7, 2009
Photo of the Week 59 - Last Train from Galway
Apr 1, 2009
The BBC - Leading the way in Mass-April-Fooling for Over 50 Years
Mar 29, 2009
Photo of the Week 58 - Connolly's Folly at Dusk
Mar 22, 2009
Photo of the Week 57 - Hoverfly on Brambles
Mar 20, 2009
A Short Tribute to Mort Lachman
Mar 18, 2009
Thoughts on iPhone OS 3.0
Mar 17, 2009
Photo of the Week 56 - Green-Veined White on Lavender
Mar 10, 2009
Photo of the Week 55 - Benitachell
Mar 1, 2009
Photo of the Week 54 - The Moon over Maynooth
Feb 28, 2009
Why Do I Shoot RAW?
Feb 26, 2009
Why I Don't Like RedHat Enterprise Linux
Feb 25, 2009
Photo of the Week 53 - Rounding the Corner
Feb 18, 2009
Photo of the Week 52 - Fire & Ice
Feb 14, 2009
First Impressions of the Postbox Beta
Feb 11, 2009
Photo of the Week 51 - Marsh Willowherb
Feb 9, 2009
God and the Bus Wars - Can You Say Hypocrisy?
Feb 7, 2009
Quick Review of Maperture
Feb 5, 2009
Photo of the Week 50 - Braving the Snow
Feb 3, 2009
The Innocent Bailing out the Incompetent
Feb 1, 2009
Aperture 2 - First Impressions
Jan 25, 2009
Photo of the Week 49 - Backlit Butterfly
Jan 20, 2009
Inaugural Reflections
Jan 19, 2009
Photo of the Week 48 - Lunar Cross (Black & White)
Jan 18, 2009
DeskLickr - Flickrize Your Desktop on OS X
Jan 11, 2009
Photo of the Week 47 - Into the Night
Jan 9, 2009
Considered Thoughts on the MacWorld 2009 Keynote
Jan 6, 2009
Photo of the Week 46 - A Winter Night in Maynooth
Jan 4, 2009
Thoughts on Next Week's MacWorld Keynote
Dec 29, 2008
Photo of the Week 45 - 'de Vesten' in Winter
Dec 21, 2008
Photo of the Week 44 - Amphibious Bistort
Dec 17, 2008
The Christmas Star & Apollo
Dec 17, 2008
Photo of the Week 43 - The Royal Canal
Dec 7, 2008
Photo of the Week 42 - Jupiter, Venus & the Moon
Nov 30, 2008
Photo of the Week 41 - Homeward Bound
Nov 30, 2008
NUI Maynooth Fire Update
Nov 29, 2008
Photomatix Pro - First Impressions
Nov 28, 2008
Today's Fire in NUI Maynooth
Nov 23, 2008
Photo of the Week 40 - Making Hay
Nov 16, 2008
Photo of the Week 39 - Autumn Butterfly
Nov 11, 2008
Photo of the Week 38 - After the Rain in Killybegs Harbour
Nov 5, 2008
Pondering Proposition 8 - "us" and "them"
Nov 2, 2008
Photo of the Week 37 - Laraghbryan Church
Nov 1, 2008
Photo of the Week 8 (Revisited)
Oct 29, 2008
Another Irish Asteroid!
Oct 27, 2008
Photo of the Week 36
Oct 18, 2008
Photo of the Week 34 & 35
Oct 16, 2008
The iPhone on the Go
Oct 14, 2008
Don't Panic - WiFi is not Broken!
Oct 12, 2008
Switching to the iPhone from the iPod Touch
Oct 12, 2008
Protecting Yourself from Click Jacking
Oct 10, 2008
Irish Amateur Astronomer Finds Asteroid
Oct 9, 2008
Photo of the Week 32 & 33 - Irish Butterflies
Sep 21, 2008
Photo of the Week 31 - The Approaching Storm
Sep 19, 2008
iPhone Development - An Inside View
Sep 17, 2008
Apple - Don't Defecate on Your Developers!
Sep 16, 2008
Apple Finally Fix DSN Flaw
Sep 14, 2008
Photo of the Week 30 - Vintage Power
Sep 9, 2008
My Butterfly Collection
Sep 8, 2008
Photo of the Week 29 - St. Mary's By Night
Aug 31, 2008
Photo of the Week 28 - Hawthorn Blossoms
Aug 31, 2008
Indiana Jones and Kingdom of the God-Awful Film
Aug 30, 2008
My Perl Image Processing Scripts
Aug 29, 2008
The Periodic Table of Videos - Fun Chemistry
Aug 27, 2008
Mobile Me - A Polished Turd?
Aug 26, 2008
A Quick & Dirty BibTex Cheat-Sheet
Aug 24, 2008
Photo of the Week 27 - St. Mary's Church
Aug 17, 2008
Photo of the Week 26 - Small Tortoiseshell Butterfly
Aug 13, 2008
Pondering University Fees
Aug 12, 2008
Photo of the Week 25 - Commuter Reflection
Aug 7, 2008
I've Joined the Mac Round Table Podcast
Aug 7, 2008
DNS Flaw Update
Aug 5, 2008
July Photos Uploaded
Aug 3, 2008
Photo of the Week 24 - Large Bindweed
Aug 2, 2008
The Apple DNS Saga Continues
Jul 30, 2008
OS X Users Vulnerable - Apple Still Don't Get Security
Jul 30, 2008
June Photos Uploaded at Last
Jul 29, 2008
Photo of the Week 23 - Dog Rose
Jul 28, 2008
I've Joined The International Mac Podcast Production Team
Jul 22, 2008
Time's Up - DNS Flaw Leaked
Jul 20, 2008
Selective Colour With The GIMP
Jul 20, 2008
Photo of the Week 22 - Kasteel Ter Elst
Jul 17, 2008
Google Earth - Illuminating our History
Jul 14, 2008
Photo of the Week 21 - Owenreagh Wind Farm
Jul 13, 2008
Major DNS Flaw - Do You Trust Your ISP?
Jul 6, 2008
Photo of the Week 20 - Summer in Maynooth
Jul 4, 2008
The Bastardisation of Tolerance and Respect
Jul 1, 2008
The Uncomfortable Truth About Trojans
Jun 29, 2008
Photo of the Week 19 - Enlightenment
Jun 25, 2008
OS X Trojan in the Wild - The Time For Smugness is Over
Jun 23, 2008
Photo of the Week 18 - Connolly's Folly
Jun 21, 2008
FireFox 3 - Greatly Improved but Not Perfect
Jun 20, 2008
MSN Music Update
Jun 15, 2008
Pondering the Snow Leopard
Jun 15, 2008
Photo of the Week 17 - Stars Over Taghadoe
Jun 15, 2008
Bokeh - Pause Apps on OS X
Jun 13, 2008
Reflections on Lisbon
Jun 11, 2008
Reflections on WWDC 2008 Key Note
Jun 11, 2008
OS X 10.5.3 Playing Havoc with iTunes
Jun 9, 2008
The Machine That Changed the World - Free Documentary Series
Jun 8, 2008
Photo of the Week 16 - St. Patrick's College by Night
Jun 7, 2008
My Predictions for WWDC 2008
Jun 5, 2008
Updated My Photo Gallery for May 2008
Jun 2, 2008
Photo of the Week 15 - Wild Cherry Blossom
Jun 1, 2008
"You Must Have a Great Camera"
Jun 1, 2008
The Nikon D40 One Year On
May 31, 2008
Spaces Finally Achieves its Potential
May 31, 2008
Musings on the State of Modern Operating Systems
May 29, 2008
Irish Broadband - First Impressions
May 25, 2008
Photo of the Week 14 - The Moon Over the Gunne Chapel
May 23, 2008
Perhaps I was a Bit Hard on Scott
May 21, 2008
The Hidden Danger of Fundamentalism
May 19, 2008
Photo of the Week 13 - A Horse Chestnut Blossom
May 19, 2008
Making sorttable Work With AJAX
May 17, 2008
OS X Internet Sharing - Simple & Effective but not Perfect
May 14, 2008
The Windows Dilemma
May 13, 2008
Another Option for Flanders?
May 10, 2008
Photo of the Week 12 - Autumn in Maynooth Castle
May 10, 2008
More Photos Uploaded
May 9, 2008
April Photos Added to Gallery
May 4, 2008
Photo of the Week 11 - A Lunar Reflection
Apr 30, 2008
OS X Leopard 6 Months On
Apr 30, 2008
Configuring Your Eircom Router Securely
Apr 29, 2008
Photo of the Week 10 - A Spanish Mountain View
Apr 24, 2008
Sure Won't Play - DRM Flaw Illustrated
Apr 20, 2008
Photo of the Week 9 - The Light of Christ
Apr 19, 2008
New Wallpapers Added
Apr 19, 2008
Creating Partially-Coloured Black & White Images With the GIMP
Apr 16, 2008
Remote Desktop Connection Beta3 Released
Apr 16, 2008
My Tilt-Shift Instructions for GIMP
Apr 15, 2008
New Mouse - Logitech LX8
Apr 14, 2008
Tilt-Shift Photography With the GIMP
Apr 14, 2008
Photography Podcasts I Listen To
Apr 13, 2008
Photo of the Week 8 - Where Dark & Light Collide
Apr 10, 2008
HDR at Night
Apr 10, 2008
Accessing Windows from OS X With RDP
Apr 8, 2008
HDR Revisited
Apr 6, 2008
RDP on OS X Revisited
Apr 6, 2008
Photo of the Week 6 and 7 - The Last Gate
Apr 4, 2008
A Picture Says a Thousand Words
Apr 3, 2008
NeoOffice 2.2.3 Disappointing on Leopard
Apr 2, 2008
Bertie Does the Honorable Thing at Last
Mar 27, 2008
Why Jing Is Absolutely Not For Me
Mar 24, 2008
If You Want Something Done Right ....
Mar 23, 2008
Photo of the Week 5 - Nightfall at Taghadoe
Mar 21, 2008
To The Death of Catholic Ireland
Mar 21, 2008
Tips for Shooting the Moon
Mar 18, 2008
HDR with a Nikon D40, Bracketeer & iPhoto
Mar 15, 2008
Photo of the Week 4 - Venus with a Crescent Moon
Mar 12, 2008
Don't Be So Pushy!
Mar 10, 2008
A Twist in the Tale of DRM
Mar 9, 2008
Photo of the Week 3 - El Castell de Guadalest
Mar 7, 2008
Naas General Hospital - a Most Pleasant Surprise
Mar 7, 2008
iPhone - the Successful Newton
Mar 5, 2008
Nice Update to SoundSource
Mar 5, 2008
Fluid - Turning WebApps into Desktop Apps
Mar 2, 2008
Photo of the Week 2 - A Fresh Winter Morning
Feb 29, 2008
O2 - The Irish iPhone Rip-off
Feb 28, 2008
iPhone Comes to Ireland in March
Feb 24, 2008
Photo of the Week 1 - An Evening Stroll
Feb 18, 2008
Aperture Priority - Get More Out of Your DSLR
Feb 13, 2008
Australia Apologises to the Aboriginals - More of this Kind of Thing Please
Feb 12, 2008
OS X 10.5.2 Arrives at Last - A Worthy Update
Feb 9, 2008
Twittering on the Mac Revisited
Feb 6, 2008
My Predictions for the iPhone SDK
Feb 5, 2008
Why I Love MarsEdit
Feb 5, 2008
Free Astronomy Software on the Mac Revisited
Feb 1, 2008
Twittering on the Mac - First Impressions
Feb 1, 2008
My First Real Astrophotos With My Nikon D40
Feb 1, 2008
A Nice Video Explaining the LHC
Jan 25, 2008
iTunes 7.6 - A Step Backwards for the iPhone & iPod Touch
Jan 24, 2008
Broadband Router Passwords - Why They are a Must
Jan 23, 2008
Reflections on the Passing of Heath Ledger
Jan 18, 2008
New Wallpapers Added to Gallery
Jan 17, 2008
Wacworld 2008 Steve-note in 60 Seconds
Jan 17, 2008
Photographic Evidence of my Geekiness
Jan 16, 2008
UPnP Router Attacks Happening for Real
Jan 16, 2008
The iPod Touch Upgrade - Money Well Spent
Jan 16, 2008
Macworld 2008 Keynote - First Thoughts
Jan 16, 2008
Interesting Reading - The Bumper Edition
Jan 12, 2008
What's Steve Got Up His Sleeve - 2008 Edition
Jan 8, 2008
Teaching Programming - Why the Choice of First Language is Irrelevant
Jan 2, 2008
Are The RIAA Retarded Or Something?
Dec 31, 2007
Laptops on Planes - A Cautionary Tale
Dec 31, 2007
Belgium - A Country Without a Future?
Dec 19, 2007
This Blog is Now Pimped for iPhone Users
Dec 19, 2007
Fantastic JKR Interview on Potter Cast
Dec 19, 2007
Beating PostgerSQL 8 Into Submission on OS X 10.5 Leopard
Dec 11, 2007
Night Time Photography - Another Reason to Go Fast Fixed Focus
Dec 11, 2007
A Simple Solution to Climate Change - Stop Digging Up Fossil Fuels
Dec 11, 2007
A Festive Use for an Old DEC Alpha
Dec 10, 2007
Leopard 10.5.1 Appears to have Broken My Epson Scanner
Dec 10, 2007
17/P Holmes Still Naked Eye Object
Dec 9, 2007
Accessing Auto Increment Values from PostgreSQL with Java
Dec 8, 2007
Two New Toys
Dec 8, 2007
Breaking News - Astronomers Have Sense of Humour (and can sing)
Dec 6, 2007
Keeping Your Home Broadband Connection Secure
Dec 5, 2007
More QuickLook Goodies
Dec 5, 2007
Irony of the Best Kind - MPAA Site Taken Down for Copyright Violation
Dec 1, 2007
Yet Another QuickTime Zero-Day Vulnerability
Dec 1, 2007
Stop Skype Messing With Your Volume Behind Your Back
Dec 1, 2007
30mm F1.4 Lens from Sigma - First Impressions
Nov 26, 2007
Irish Residents - BEWARE of Audible.co.uk
Nov 26, 2007
Another Nice QuickLook Plugin
Nov 25, 2007
Bart's TimeMachine Tips
Nov 25, 2007
A QuickLook Plugin for Programmers
Nov 19, 2007
Breaking News - Leopard Menubar Transparency Fix
Nov 18, 2007
The Irony Of Leopard - Old is Better than New
Nov 17, 2007
What's In Your Menubar?
Nov 17, 2007
Sound Source - A Great Menubar App from Rogue Amoeba
Nov 17, 2007
iStat Menus - A Nice Alternative To Menu Meters
Nov 15, 2007
Another One of my iPod Touch Gripes Dealt With
Nov 9, 2007
Comet 17/P Holmes Update
Nov 8, 2007
Apple Care Update
Nov 7, 2007
MBP Battery Woes - My First Call to Apple Care
Nov 7, 2007
iTunes 7.5 Quietly and Subtly Improves iPod Touch
Nov 1, 2007
Trojan in the Wild Exploiting Naive Mac Users
Oct 31, 2007
A Big Day for the IEDR
Oct 29, 2007
Second Leopard Update - Spaces Feels Beta
Oct 28, 2007
First Leopard Update - Application Compatibility
Oct 27, 2007
My Very First Thoughts on Leopard
Oct 26, 2007
Comet 17/P Holmes Observed Again
Oct 25, 2007
Surprise Outburst of Comet Holmes Observed
Oct 25, 2007
Pipette - Easy Colour Grabbing On OS X
Oct 24, 2007
OS X 10.5 Leopard Security Features Explained
Oct 22, 2007
Eircom And Security - They Still Don't Get It
Oct 21, 2007
Bleezer Test Post
Oct 20, 2007
Why Does the Gender Imbalance in The Sciences & IT Continue?
Oct 20, 2007
JKR's Latest Revelation - Dumbledore Was Gay
Oct 17, 2007
A Real Thriller of an Article
Oct 14, 2007
Three More Little Gripes With The iPod Touch
Oct 13, 2007
iPod Touch - First Impressions
Oct 12, 2007
From My iPod Touch!!!
Oct 10, 2007
Does Dashboard Hold the Key to iPhone's Future?
Oct 9, 2007
BT Upstage Eircom With Security Flaw
Oct 7, 2007
Major Gallery Update
Oct 2, 2007
Eircom's Response to the Security Issues Recently Raised
Oct 1, 2007
Two Nice Photo Editing Tips for the GIMP
Sep 30, 2007
Getting Things Done with iGTD
Sep 27, 2007
Some of the Forgotten of 9-11
Sep 27, 2007
Posting Blog Comments is a Privilege Not a Right
Sep 23, 2007
CVS over SSH on a Non-Standard Port
Sep 23, 2007
An Excellent Article on Java Web Development with Apache Struts 1
Sep 21, 2007
Teleport - Synergy the Mac Way
Sep 20, 2007
Interesting Reading - Take 2
Sep 16, 2007
Writing Presentations With Keynote '08
Sep 15, 2007
An Eye on The Sky - September/October 2007
Sep 14, 2007
Another QuickTime Vulnerability - Apple Still Don't Get Security
Sep 13, 2007
Trial - Some Interesting Articles I've Read
Sep 12, 2007
Eircom Security - More Bad News and Some Suggested Solutions
Sep 11, 2007
Eircom Exposes Its Broadband Customers to Serious Security Risks
Sep 9, 2007
A Trip Down Memory Lane - Returning to my Old School to Talk About Science
Sep 2, 2007
iPhoto 7 - A Closer Look
Aug 28, 2007
New Aluminium iMac - WOW!
Aug 27, 2007
Windows Genuine (dis)Advantage Back Up
Aug 25, 2007
Unlocking Hidden Features in OS X
Aug 25, 2007
Genuine Disadvantage
Aug 22, 2007
SSH Agent - Simple Yet Secure SSH Keys On OS X
Aug 16, 2007
My Very First Thoughts on iLife '08
Aug 14, 2007
Amateurs Being Paraded as Experts on Irish National Radio
Aug 13, 2007
A Rare Personal Post - My Brother's Wedding
Aug 6, 2007
Nikon Zoom-Nikkor AF 70-300mm Lens - Initial Thoughts
Aug 1, 2007
A Glut of Mac Related Updates
Jul 31, 2007
The Wonderful Barn
Jul 30, 2007
Apple's Complacency Threatens OS X Security
Jul 29, 2007
A New More Open J.K. Rowling
Jul 22, 2007
The Deathly Hallows - Initial Thoughts
Jul 20, 2007
Figure Out Where All Your Disk Space Went With Disk Inventory X
Jul 18, 2007
Potter Ponderings
Jul 13, 2007
Apple See Sense at Last - Free Full-Screen in QuickTime 7.2
Jul 11, 2007
Pictures from Letterkenny & Owenreagh Wind Farm
Jul 5, 2007
Simple Sortable Tables
Jul 3, 2007
Perian Goes 1.0
Jun 30, 2007
Some of the Sights Around Maynooth
Jun 27, 2007
At Last - A REAL iPhone Review
Jun 26, 2007
My Visit To Hosting365
Jun 24, 2007
James Webb Space Telescope in Dublin
Jun 23, 2007
Namely - The End of a Long Quest
Jun 22, 2007
SMARTReporter - Automatically Monitor Your Mac for Iminent Disk Failures
Jun 22, 2007
ByteController - Turn Any Keyboard into a Multimedia Keyboard on OS X
Jun 17, 2007
Bwana - Easier to Read Man Pages on OS X
Jun 15, 2007
Hosting365 - I Think I've Finally Had Enough
Jun 13, 2007
WWDC 2007 - Bit of Damp Squib Really
Jun 8, 2007
Yahoo Messagenger - JUST DON'T!
Jun 8, 2007
WWDC 2007 - My Hopes & Dreams
May 31, 2007
What Happened to Journalistic Standards on the Web?
May 31, 2007
Two Titans Meet - Gates & Jobs On The Same Stage At The Same Time
May 22, 2007
Apparently You Can't Say Bad Things About The Dead .... Really?
May 22, 2007
A Non-Scientific Contrast of PHP & Perl
May 21, 2007
Would Somebody Think of the Color Blind People!
May 20, 2007
A Good Night for Observing Planets
May 18, 2007
First Light of my New Nikon D40
May 17, 2007
Microsoft Start to Crack
May 15, 2007
And Award for the Worst Door-to-Door Canvasing Goes to ...
May 13, 2007
A Look at the NoScript FireFox Add-on
May 11, 2007
More DRM Insanity
May 10, 2007
Could I Be a Switcher?
May 6, 2007
The Great Solitaire Experiment
May 4, 2007
Update On The Leaked HD-DVD Key
May 4, 2007
A Non-Scientific Comparison of Java and Perl
May 3, 2007
HD-DVD - The MPAA in a Catch 22
May 2, 2007
Three 2.0s of Note
May 2, 2007
The M3 & Tara - A Big Test For the Irish Government
Apr 24, 2007
Time to Secure Your Browser
Apr 23, 2007
Reflections on the State of the Irish Astronomical Community in 2007
Apr 20, 2007
Create PDFs for Free on Windows
Apr 20, 2007
Caffeine - Stop Your Mac From Sleeping
Apr 19, 2007
SmartFTP Really Quite Dumb
Apr 15, 2007
Another UnCharactaristic Personal Post - But Good News This Time
Apr 13, 2007
iPhone on Schedule but OS X 10.5 Leopard Delayed
Apr 12, 2007
An Un-charataristic Personal Post - The End of an Era
Apr 3, 2007
Apple Puts It's Money Where It's Mouth is - iTunes To Go DRM Free
Mar 29, 2007
Some Things to Watch Out For When Upgrading PHP5 on FreeBSD
Mar 29, 2007
Apologies for the Short bit of Down Time
Mar 26, 2007
A Portrait of Progress in Norther Ireland
Mar 25, 2007
PasswordVault2Go - A Great Shareware Tool
Mar 23, 2007
When Will OS X 10.5 Leopard Be Out?
Mar 19, 2007
The Changing Face of Computer Security - Part 1
Mar 18, 2007
Blog Theme Tweaked
Mar 6, 2007
My Review of NetNewsWire 3 Preview Release on the NosillaCast
Mar 5, 2007
DRM Digested
Mar 4, 2007
Yesterday's Total Lunar Eclipse
Mar 1, 2007
WTF - What Could be Worse Than Failure?
Feb 27, 2007
A Nice Free Tool for Measuring Pixel Sizes on Screen
Feb 26, 2007
Two Tips for Getting More out of Thunderbird
Feb 24, 2007
Recognising Homosexuality Does Not Make Straight People Gay!
Feb 22, 2007
Past Visions of Apple's Future - MacWorld 1997 Ten Years On
Feb 21, 2007
Top Gear Do Space
Feb 19, 2007
JavaScript Home Router Attacks Happening for Real
Feb 18, 2007
Two Free and Simple Video Tools for OS X
Feb 16, 2007
The Month of Apple Bugs Digested
Feb 15, 2007
Are the Days of JS and AJAX numbered?
Feb 9, 2007
TCPDump for Windows
Feb 8, 2007
How the Web has Changed Us
Feb 7, 2007
Some Thoughts on Steve's Thoughts on Music
Feb 5, 2007
Windows Vista - First Impressions of a Mac OS X User
Feb 4, 2007
Bart's Planet Challenge 2007 - The Beginning
Feb 2, 2007
Harry Potter's Final Curtain is Only Months Away
Jan 29, 2007
Why Do Bloggers Blog?
Jan 29, 2007
The More Things Change, the More they Stay the Same
Jan 11, 2007
iPhone - Next iPod or Next Newton?
Jan 9, 2007
MacWorld 2007 Imediate Reaction - WTF, Leopard?
Jan 9, 2007
.Mac - The Devil is in the Implementation
Jan 8, 2007
Musings on What iLife 07 May Bring
Jan 4, 2007
MacWorld 2007 Prediction Time
Jan 1, 2007
Running NMAP on Intel Macs
Dec 30, 2006
Simple Java Configuration Files and no XML in Sight
Dec 27, 2006
Reflections on Joe's Early Christmas Present - the Harry Potter 7 Title
Dec 24, 2006
If You Can't Out-Perform them, out -Innovate Them!
Dec 22, 2006
Rogue DHCP Detection Plugin for Nagios on RedHat
Dec 21, 2006
Some Silliness for the Silly-Season
Dec 20, 2006
Problems Detecting Rogue DHCP Servers on Linux, not on Windows
Nov 28, 2006
The Easy Way to Completely Remove an App on OS X
Nov 26, 2006
arRsync - an Rsync GUI for Mac OS X
Nov 24, 2006
Nagios DHCP Checking on RHEL4
Nov 21, 2006
The Power of YouTube? I Sure Hope So
Nov 21, 2006
Java Class Loaders & Configuration Files -Why Wasn't I Taught This in College?
Nov 17, 2006
Java Goes Open Source - So What?
Nov 14, 2006
Installing mod_jk for Apache 1.3 on Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger
Nov 14, 2006
DigiWeb Asks for Credit Card Details via Email
Nov 9, 2006
The Science Delusion
Nov 8, 2006
Switching to Subversion - First Thoughts of a CVS User
Nov 1, 2006
Who Will Prepare Your Kids for the Realities of The Internet?
Nov 1, 2006
Comet SWAN Appears to be Dimming
Oct 30, 2006
Tech Podcasts I'd Actually Recommend
Oct 27, 2006
Hidden JavaScript
Oct 27, 2006
Comet SWAN Brightens Significantly
Oct 20, 2006
Synchronizing Your Bookmarks on FireFox
Oct 19, 2006
A Little Chuckle at Microsoft's Expense
Oct 12, 2006
Comet SWAN Observed
Oct 11, 2006
Uranus and Neptune Observed
Oct 9, 2006
CrossOver Mac Beta 2 - Problematic Upgrade but Worth It
Oct 8, 2006
FireFox Extension for Managing Proxies
Oct 3, 2006
Creating an OS X Application from a Java JAR
Sep 29, 2006
RedHat Need to Learn Some Common Sense
Sep 25, 2006
The Easy Way To Join PDFs on OS X
Sep 16, 2006
iTunes 7 - Solutions to Audio Book and Download Problems
Sep 15, 2006
iTunes 7 - Not The Success It Could and SHOULD Have Been
Sep 10, 2006
Free Astronomy Software on Mac OS X - Installing KStars
Sep 2, 2006
At Last - Windows Apps on my Mac WITHOUT WINDOWS
Aug 25, 2006
And Then There Were Eight
Aug 23, 2006
Steorn - Where's the Science?
Aug 19, 2006
Image Magick on an Intel Mac
Aug 18, 2006
Redhat Up2date Also Sucks
Aug 15, 2006
Another Reason Microsoft Update Sucks
Aug 10, 2006
The Big Hints for HP7 - Part 3
Aug 8, 2006
Why Holidays Are a Bad Thing
Aug 8, 2006
Reflections on the WWDC 2006 Keynote
Aug 6, 2006
Simple Indexed Properties in Struts Forms - The Missing Documentation
Aug 5, 2006
JavaScript - Much more than Java's Mini-Me
Aug 2, 2006
The Mirror of Erised is not the Answer to Life the Universe & Everything
Jul 31, 2006
Welcome to the new home for my Blog
Jul 13, 2006
Microsoft Update - A HCI Nightmare
Jul 9, 2006
Equality is an All or Nothing Thing
Jul 6, 2006
The Problems with the IE Domain Registry
Jun 30, 2006
The Big Hints for HP7 - Part 2
Jun 28, 2006
Some Help with Webdesign and Colours
Jun 28, 2006
And the award for the worst pun of the day goes to .....
Jun 25, 2006
The Problem With The Word Theory
Jun 25, 2006
MBP Update - Gets a Little Warmer Than I First Thought
Jun 19, 2006
The Black MacBook - Disappointing
Jun 18, 2006
17" MacBookPro Review
Jun 8, 2006
PostgreSQL on the Mac
Jun 5, 2006
The Big Hints for HP7 - Part 1
May 31, 2006
Tim Responds to the Web2.0 Debacle
May 31, 2006
On Third Thoughts - iWeb REALLY Sucks
May 27, 2006
And the Web2.0 Fun Continues
May 26, 2006
A Darker Side of O'Reilly
May 22, 2006
Installing Apache Tomcat 5.5 on Linux
May 21, 2006
On Second Thoughts - iWeb Sucks
May 16, 2006
Foreign Key Problems with MySQL
May 15, 2006
MySQL on the Mac
May 12, 2006
They Seem to be Seeing the Light at Last
May 10, 2006
Automator - Lives up to the Hype
May 3, 2006
Dashboard Widgets for Web Monkeys
Apr 27, 2006
Windows Remote Desktop Client for OS X
Apr 22, 2006
Developing My First Dashboard Widget - Unix Time Stamp Converter
Apr 10, 2006
Finally got round to Watching HP 4 - What a Disappointment
Apr 7, 2006
Finally - a FOSS OS that anyone can use
Apr 4, 2006
OS X Dashboard Widgets for Techies
Apr 1, 2006
Thunderbird 1.5 Released
Apr 1, 2006
The Moon next to the Pleiades
Mar 31, 2006
NASA Try to End Censorship of Scientists
Mar 29, 2006
Partial Eclipse Observed from Maynooth
Mar 28, 2006
Creating my First Podcast
Mar 27, 2006
Broadband Update
Mar 22, 2006
Tomorrow never comes
Mar 20, 2006
Enterprising Insanity
Mar 20, 2006
Copying a CD on OS X Without any Thirdparty Software
Mar 14, 2006
I Did Not Even Think it COULD Get Worse
Mar 13, 2006
OS X Security - Untangling Some of the Hype
Mar 1, 2006
Musings on the New Mac Mini
Mar 1, 2006
A Small But Dedicated Crew of Observers
Feb 28, 2006
My Guess at what Steve has up his Sleave
Feb 27, 2006
NmapFE - Nice OS X Frontend for NMAP
Feb 25, 2006
More Reasons Why PHP Sucks
Feb 25, 2006
Farewell Mr. Gormley
Feb 16, 2006
Phishers Get Smarter
Feb 13, 2006
They Sure Know How to Rub it in
Feb 11, 2006
Brown Compares Accountants to Turning and Co
Feb 9, 2006
Eircom - Incompetent and Downright Rude
Feb 8, 2006
An Unexpected Observing Session
Feb 6, 2006
Amazing the reaction a few drawings can have
Feb 5, 2006
My First Submission to the Daily WTF
Feb 4, 2006
One of my proudest moments
Jan 31, 2006
You Know it's cold when ....
Jan 27, 2006
Some Simple Little Linux Commands You Can Never Remember When You Need Them
Jan 26, 2006
Guide for Installing Tomcat 5.0 on OS X 10.4 Tiger
Jan 26, 2006
Get your own back on web pages that piss you off
Jan 21, 2006
HornWare - Some Nice File Sharing Utils for OS X
Jan 20, 2006
SimCity4 for Mac - UNPLAYABLE
Jan 18, 2006
Google Earth Mac - About Bloody Time
Jan 16, 2006
Apparently Dell will be pre-installing FireFox in the UK
Jan 12, 2006
Musings on Macworld 2006
Jan 11, 2006
Himmel Bar - Another Great Little Utility for OS X
Jan 4, 2006
Beware of Small Airports - they have a dark side
Dec 19, 2005
How do Apple inspire such mad obsession - the mind boggles
Dec 17, 2005
Why closed standards are a bad idea - a personal experience
Dec 17, 2005
There should be more to good spicy food than just burning the crap out of you
Dec 15, 2005
The OWL Appears to be Dead
Dec 15, 2005
JellyfiSSH for OS X - SSH Heaven
Dec 8, 2005
Publishing your Calendar with iCal
Dec 8, 2005
Breezy Badger release of KUbuntu continues to dissapoint
Dec 7, 2005
SSH via a Socks proxy on OS X with connect.c
Dec 7, 2005
IPFW Firewall Script (Suitable for OS X)
Dec 5, 2005
The RIGHT way to set up a Custom Firewall on OS X
Dec 4, 2005
The Witch-hunt Begins
Nov 30, 2005
Mighty Mouse - Mighty Disappointment
Nov 30, 2005
Breezy Badger release of KUbuntu very disappointing
Nov 25, 2005
Why I think standards are slipping
Nov 23, 2005
And the electrons stop flowing ... AGAIN
Nov 21, 2005
Very clear Lunar Halo last night
Nov 19, 2005
Synergy on OS X - the easy way
Nov 19, 2005
Learn from my mistake - always backup your backup scripts
Nov 18, 2005
Musings on the Nature of Science
Nov 12, 2005
Saw a Great Sundog this Afternoon
Nov 11, 2005
Vatican re-affirm Sensible line on Evolution
Nov 9, 2005
Small Victory for Civil Rights
Nov 7, 2005
Fire in the sky - keep an eye out!
Nov 4, 2005
Even more spectacular Rainbow
Nov 3, 2005
Could this be a glimpse of a bright future?
Oct 31, 2005
Why Windfarms are not a waste of money
Oct 31, 2005
Saw a stunning Rainbow today
Oct 27, 2005
Nice web forms and not a table in sight!
Oct 27, 2005
Listen to the HP4 soundtrack for free LEGALLY!
Oct 25, 2005
Bishops Allowed to use Sacrament as Weapon
Oct 22, 2005
Is a CS Degree actually WORTH anything?
Oct 18, 2005
Will Saddam get a fair trial? Do we care?
Oct 18, 2005
We have all this tech and we still can't cure the common cold!
Oct 14, 2005
Mars up-close
Oct 14, 2005
Figuring out how much you're magnifying with your Telescope
Oct 8, 2005
Is there any need for the Applet anymore?
Oct 6, 2005
A DISTINCT quirk in PostgreSQL
Oct 4, 2005
The CORRECT way to install Sun Java on Debian/Ubuntu
Oct 3, 2005
The easiest way to turn a Mac into a Mail Server
Oct 3, 2005
Beating Bugzilla into submission on OS X
Sep 30, 2005
I feel really sorry for Northern Unionists
Sep 30, 2005
Gay Marriage Terminated
Sep 28, 2005
First Astro2 Observing Session of the year
Sep 28, 2005
Aurora Observed from Maynooth
Sep 23, 2005
Amazing what you can see with a pair of Binoculars!
Sep 22, 2005
My HP7 predictions
Sep 21, 2005
Nice one Steve!
Sep 17, 2005
No one Expects the Spanish Inquizition ... oh wait ... I did!
Sep 9, 2005
Sky News get it right ... but only by mistake
Sep 3, 2005
Shelling out in Java re-visited
Sep 2, 2005
String.replaceAll(String, String) wowes
Aug 30, 2005
Hate filled men of love?!
Aug 21, 2005
What exactly is a planet?
Aug 18, 2005
Controling X11 Focus Follows Mouse - OS X
Aug 17, 2005
Shelling out in Java - beware, not as simple as it first appears!
Aug 16, 2005
It's the little things that continue to impress me!
Aug 16, 2005
Decapitating java.awt!
Aug 14, 2005
OSXPM - How did I ever do without it!?
Aug 14, 2005
Colour ls on OS X 10.3 and Higher
Aug 12, 2005
Switching from MySQL to PostgreSQL
Aug 11, 2005
There is no such thing as 'Creation Science'!!!