Remarkable Service 

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’ [...]

Earth seen from 4 billion miles away 

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 [...]

from XP to Ubuntu Edgy Eft 

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 installing Ubuntu [...]

Ms Dewey 

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 persist, at [...]