Via Slashdot, Nikon UK posted a press release yesterday announcing that they will end production of 35mm cameras, including many lenses and other related accessories, so they can focus on the growing digital market. I guess it’s obvious companies would go this way, digital cameras are becoming more popular than ever and that’s where the [...]

As the title sez, Thunderbird 1.5 is due out tomorrow. I’m not sure yet if the Irish version will be released at the same time or not, I guess we’ll find out tomorrow (probably US time) but i’ll update you if I have any further info (for those that like to keep ahead of the [...]

I’m trying to get back into 3D modelling again, I totally suck at it so it can be hard to muster the motivation sometimes. Anywayz I started working on a gun recently, the model is about 90% complete, here is the first render, some fixes and fine tuning still needed, you can easily spot some [...]

I recently got a ‘new’ computer in work, it included this cool toy, a spaceball. Even the name is cool. I just have to figure out how to use it now.

I’m having a bit of a tussle with my internet supplier, I was wondering if anyone had some advice. I currently have a 2Mb ADSL connection which I changed to recently. Anytime I do a bandwidth speed test with a number of different websites (most US based but usually this one) I get a result [...]

I’m delighted to be one of the first to announce the release of a new Irish language search engine, Aimsigh.com. What makes this search engine so special is that it only indexes Irish language documents. It also includes some advanced features special to the language such as ignoring mutations and dealing with non-standard spellings. The [...]

The .eu top level domain is now available. Sacre-bl.eu !

But did they go far enough? Following a complaint by journalist John Seigenthaler over false allegations that he was somehow involved in the Kennedy assassinations Wikipedia have decided to tighten its rules. They now require users to register before posting new articles. However people can still edit existing articles without registering which is totally stupid [...]

I don’t know what I’ve done to Firefox but it’s using a lot RAM at the moment. Anybody else have similar problems? I’ve heard that some Mac users are having problems also but I think that’s because of an existing bug. I’ll have to do a bit of investigating.

I was just checking my site stats, checking where youze all are coming from and just noticed that someone found Raiméis by searching for “ira bollox” on Doogle. Doogle adds an extra word when you do a search and the actual keywords which give me a #1 placing are “ira bollox Offaly”. I guess I [...]