Tom Raftery has an interesting post about Remarkable Customer Service.
I could rave all day about the remarkable service from my host letshost.ie.
Always patient, interested and understanding beyond the call of duty, the guys get the problem solved with utmost courtesy.
Plus of course the sheer value of their single package. No irritating ‘home’ packages [...]

On a day when the world’s media is consumed with the unintended decapitation, rather than the “civilized” hanging of a former tyrant, perhaps Carl Sagan’s words put a few things in perspective.
Of the “pale blue dot” reproduced at Futility Closet (link below), he said
That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you [...]

I hope you all had a happy Christmas and New Year’s Eve and I wish you all, especially friends and family, a wonderful 2007.
To all friends and family who might have expected to hear from me over the weekend, I’ve been caught in the grip of tech-hypnosis. I’m wrecked.
Before embarking on [...]

In a clever hat-tip to the Dewey Decimal Classification System used in Libraries, Ms Dewey is search as you’ve never seen it. It takes quite a while to load, so if you’ve a slow connection forget it. But no doubt its use of an avatar like Ms Dewey will be sufficiently amusing to [...]

Briefly following up on the last post, A Brain Cell is the Same as the Universe:
The New Size of Our World
This is a graphic representation of how small our beautiful earth really is.
I wrote this in the title poem of my last book, Dialogue in Fading Light:
Our sun is many times [...]

That a brain cell structure might reflect the structure of the Universe isn’t at all surprising, stunning though the comparison is, when you think that a daisy, a snail shell, a ram’s horn and a spiral nebula all conform to the Fibonacci Series.
You can see the pictures here -
A Brain Cell is the Same [...]

I gave away my (16 year old) TV recently.
Just about the same time, Marc Coleman had a great piece in the Irish Times about the little economic bites taken out of us by
…by a whole zoo of parasites. Each one hopes the bite they take will go unnoticed. Each one on its own does [...]

Currently, half of Sweden’s nuclear reactors are idle, but it’s not because of the 1980 referendum in which Swedish citizens asked for a nuclear phase out plan and a switch to renewable energies (f.ex. the state-owned Vattenfall utility is investing $1 billion in wind and wants to build Northern-Europe’s biggest wind farm), but because of [...]

“Novell Linux has just released this amazing technology demonstration video showing off some of the new features of their impressive operating system. While Windows Vista takes about 500MB to boot this Linux technology can run on almost any hardware.”
Novell Linux 10 xgl - Google Video
The demonstration video is over 12 minutes long, but just to [...]

Researchers at the University of Toronto have created a semiconductor device that outperforms today’s conventional chips — and they made it simply by painting a liquid onto a piece of glass.
Nanotechwire.com