http://www.kieranoshea.com A little spot on the web all about me, my work and my life in general! Sun, 11 May 2008 17:42:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Listening to this just made me go all gooey inside. Its a wonderful piece of jazz music, an excellent live performance from candy Dulfer on saxophone and Dave Stewart on guitar. The tune is entitled "Lily Was Here". http://www.kieranoshea.com/2008/05/11/gooey-inside/ I wrote back in 2006 about AVG's crafty tactics to get you to part with money you didn't need to part with and it now seems they are at it again. Last night I logged into my Windows box and was greeted with a pop up from AVG saying that version ... http://www.kieranoshea.com/2008/05/11/avg-at-it-again/ It was Nick's last lecture, it was the last SY32 lecture, it was our last lecture. We had to do something to make the event memorable and fun. We plotted and schemed a little bit and decided that we would Rickroll Nick during the lecture. Chris and I arrived 30 ... http://www.kieranoshea.com/2008/05/10/nick-rickrolled/ Its not often I praise Microsoft but here is a product that I just can't wait to have a play with. "Cool" just doesn't do this device justice. I don't necessarily agree with all the uses Microsoft suggest for surface computing; they focus too much on the business, advertising and ... http://www.kieranoshea.com/2008/05/07/surface-computing/ So, here it is, Calendar 1.2 Beta 1 finally seeing the light of day! I'd like to thank everyone for their patience in waiting for this, I hope after giving it a try you will feel the wait has been worthwhile. The final release will come two weeks from ... http://www.kieranoshea.com/2008/05/07/calendar-1-2-beta-1/ I'm now running the development version of Calendar 1.2 on my publicly visible development server. You can see it running on Lara here. Comments are of course welcome, those who suggested features will no doubt spot some of them in action. Two screenshots are shown below to give you an ... http://www.kieranoshea.com/2008/05/03/calendar-sneak-preview/ So it looks like my Calendar plugin is in the top 100 list of WordPress plugins. This is a pleasant surprise and makes me wonder how much higher up the list the plugin might go when the new features go live. Thanks to all who use my plugin and have ... http://www.kieranoshea.com/2008/05/03/top-100/ I'm not usually a massive fan of South Park but I have to say this episode about there being no more internet tickled me somewhat. The hilarity of the concept was one thing, but the sheer dependency on the service shown by the characters added a whole new level of ... http://www.kieranoshea.com/2008/04/18/no-more-internet/ Looks like I'm not suitable for a career in IT because I can't read paragraphs in 2 seconds flat and answer questions on them in an online test. But oh yeah, thats right, you need to be able to do that when you're working with low level programming and mathematics ... http://www.kieranoshea.com/2008/04/16/job-applications/ I run the legacy 2.0.x branch of WordPress. I'm often asked why I don't upgrade and I've decided to voice my reasons here and talk about using legacy software in general. My reasons for not upgrading are simple. I don't want to have to update regularly, simple as. I'm very busy ... http://www.kieranoshea.com/2008/04/15/using-wordpress-legacy/