Snoopers Charter, a photo by blacknight on Flickr. I was interviewed earlier this week for an article in the Irish edition of the Daily Mail on the UK's proposed "snooper's charter" . Unfortunately they don't seem to publish the articles from the Irish edition online, so I've ended up scanning it in instead. Related articles An Irish SOPA to an Irish Problem … [Read more...] about Daily Mail Article – Snoopers Charter
There’s Two Sides To Every Story – Minister Sean Sherlock Explains
This is a slight departure from the stuff I normally post and while I have posted several times about the copyright debacle on the company blog, as well as covering it at length on the technology.ie podcastthis doesn't quite fit there either .. so it's here .. Tomorrow there's going to be a public debate about copyright in the Science Gallery. I was contacted the week before … [Read more...] about There’s Two Sides To Every Story – Minister Sean Sherlock Explains
Technicaljobs.ie Revamped
I've been running technicaljobs.ie for the last couple of years on jobberbase. It's nice software, but it's not as feature rich as I'd like and dealing with spammy submissions is awkward. So I recently made the switch to using jobroller and gave the site a bit of a facelift. The site's now running Wordpress with Jobroller, so it also has a blog :) (Whether I'll be able to … [Read more...] about Technicaljobs.ie Revamped
Wireless And Web Based Security Systems?
After my recent "incident" I'm going to be installing some kind of burglar alarm and possibly some cameras. There are quite a lot of different solutions on the market, but I'm really not sure what to go for. Ideally I'd like an alarm system that is loud ie. set it off and your ears are assaulted. It probably won't be hooked up to any monitoring system beyond a GSM modem … [Read more...] about Wireless And Web Based Security Systems?
Feeling Violated
I got home from work this evening and immediately noticed that something wasn't quite right. My laptop bag was sitting in the middle of the hall floor and I knew I hadn't left it there. Walking into the sitting room my worst fears were realised - the TV was gone, as was my MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, Kindle and of course my iMac. (Guess I've got a lot of Apple products - or at … [Read more...] about Feeling Violated