http://colin.netech.ie An experiment gone wrong Tue, 16 Dec 2008 15:59:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Came across this on an internal blog and liked the description. Think of good design in a system as a line of credit: just as purchasing new equipment for the business without generating income creates a debt against the credit line, adding features to a system without improving its design ... http://colin.netech.ie/archives/90 So last Thursday evening it was decided that I should go and collect my LadyFriend from her place of employment and transport her to my place of residence as she was not feeling well and did not need to endure the perils of public transport. The route home involves crossing ... http://colin.netech.ie/archives/89 I was having lots of problems last night and this morning with multicast not working correctly on a linux host. As soon as I started tcpdump multicast would work. It is not fun trying to troubleshoot a problem that goes away everytime you try to debug it. Turns out the realtek ... http://colin.netech.ie/archives/88 In a move that caught everyone by surprise including myself I asked my Ladyfriend to marry me while we were in Rome last week. Following only the briefest of pauses to exclaim surprise the Lady said yes. http://colin.netech.ie/archives/87 So while attempting to copy all my photos from the Trans Canadian train journey onto my laptop it started whining about low disk space. It seems I have managed to produce somewhere in the region of 25GB of photos so far and there is another week to go. My short ... http://colin.netech.ie/archives/86 Whats the first thing to do in New York. Thats right a trip to the B&H Super Store on 9th Avenue to buy some bits and pieces for my EOS 400D. The initial shopping list was short, just one lens and a flash but with the fact that things are ... http://colin.netech.ie/archives/85 So the flight over was ok but really Aer Lingus what were you thinking, "Showbands 2" is not an acceptable thing to show to mass murderers let alone tourists who we want to actually remember Ireland fondly. Besides the poor entertainment options the flight was uneventful, just long. It seems ... http://colin.netech.ie/archives/84 Live from the count at the RDS http://colin.netech.ie/archives/83 After sitting through Eoin O'Dell (photo below) talking about the legal challenges facing bloggers I am tempted never to post anything on the internet ever again. Barcamp was good fun and I was sorry to have to leave early and miss some of the later talks that I was interested ... http://colin.netech.ie/archives/82 This was orignally ment to be a write up myself and Peter's adventures at LAMM last year but I never quite got arround to posting it. This years lamm is fast approaching and I have yet to enter because Peter is not able to take part this year due to ... http://colin.netech.ie/archives/66