#“Google AppInventor for Android is a Massive Hit with 11 y/o Son”
When Google AppInventor launched I was really excited and signed up for the pre-release immediately. The idea of a drag n …
#“Monitoring EC2 Servers with Zabbix”
Amazon Cloudfront is great for monitoring EC2 servers but it can only do external monitoring so it cannot see things like memory being exhausted etc. …
#“ASCII Star Wars via Telnet”
In my first job in S3, I was handed a VT102 terminal as my main "computer". Having done my Masters on PCs and HP Unix boxes, I nearly cried. I still …
#“Google Cloud Picker? New?”
I just tried inserting an image in a Google Doc and got this new dialog. Interesting!
Of course it didn't bloody work. When I tried to Sign-in, it said "The …
#“Xbox 360 Wireless on the cheap”
Our eldest was thrilled to be able to buy an old Xbox 360 from his cousin for 40. It's a pretty impressive piece of kit and a big upgrade over the …
#“How we’ll watch election counts from now on? #ge11”
Traditional TV is playing a very small part in my watching of the Irish General Election 2011 outcome. But the TV is. This is a …
#“Standing Desk Update”
The standing desk experiment is ongoing and the news has not all been good. I've had on-weeks and off-weeks and I'm still not 100% comfortable. But at the moment …
#“Is Google Insane? Blocking Facebook Contacts Sync on Nexus S”
That's an absolutely killer feature of Android. Blocking it shows just how scared they are of FB.Of course if they'd …
