Author Archives: Donncha

Joel on Software – Lord Palmerston on Programming – good, good, good. No comment, I’ve been as guilty as anyone else is of all the things Joel writes about. Go read!

Edinburgh fire: Demolition threat – I heard this morning there was a major fire in Edinburgh. It sounds bad although none of the damaged buildings was listed apparently. Google News has more.

Mathew installed Open Office after getting this message, “Microsoft Office 2000 SR-1 Premium will run 39 more times before you will be required to register this product.”
I installed this for Martina and she’s working on her latest assignment on it. It looks good!

Jason speculates about how AIDS came to the USA. December 1st is World AIDS Day. (It’s my birthday too!) I don’t remember the Irish media mentioning it at all.

BUG backpackers hostel reviews Brodies Backpackers Hostel – and the one hostel I know is good (Martina’s been there and speaks highly of it) is booked out but also gets good reviews at this site. I can *probably* trust this review site. I’ll keep searching.

BUG backpackers hostel reviews A1 Playfair House Hostel – I’m trying to find a hostel in Edinburgh. Here’s reviews of the first one on a google search for “Edinburgh hostel”. Which review would you believe?

Zimran picks up on the story that MS will ship Linux apps within 2 years. I doubt it somehow but I will welcome it if it happens.

Soup is Good – it certainly is. the guy(Bill Gates) gives $100 million to India to fight HIV/AIDS and then has his corporation invest $500 million to undermine the Indian Government’s attempts to use open source software in their government systems.

Golden Rules for optimizing your pages – via PHP Everywhere.

Interview with Tim Perdue. GForge and behind the scenes at SourceForge – very, very interesting. What really happened at VA Linux.