Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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UCC Politics Society
The newly formed UCC Politics Society has a website, and guess who hosts it and put it up? Yea. Using WordPress 2.0 for now, will be updating the template shortly. There is also one more person in Ireland blogging because of it…lol. Isn’t that right Jonathan? The bug spreads. Any suggestions for a header picture…
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Google defies US over search data
This is indeed a curious turn of events. The internet search engine Google is resisting efforts by the US Department of Justice to force it to hand over data about what people are looking for. Google was asked for information on the types of query submitted over a week, and the websites included in its…
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Palestinian ambassador interview
Richard Delevan, a much missed regular feature in the Irish blogosphere has a post today with an exerpt of an interview he did with the Palestinian ambassador to Ireland. You can read the first part of the interview here.
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Staff rebellion at the World Bank?
A good friend of the staff here at Gavin’s Blog, Steve Clemons, has a story on an array of departures at the World Bank, since neo-conservative/neo-idealist Paul Wolfowitz became head of the organisation. The money quote: In recent months, picking up steam in recent weeks, there has been a massive exodus of top talent from…
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802.11n agreed
Finally. I remember writing about 802.11n proposals way back in 2001. At the time 802.11b was dominant, and the debate was who would win in the 802.11g versus 802.11a debate. It was always going to be ‘g’, working on a different frequency than 2.4Ghz was never going to be feasible long term – with requirements…
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Broadband increase
As I predicted in a comment over at Bernie’s blog, minimum level broadband will be raised from 1Mb to 2Mb. For BT customers this will happen on January 23rd. Download allowances have also been increased. I heard rumours *cough* back in October that this would happen early in 2006. Still doesn’t beat the 14Mb connection…
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Go for launch
We are go for launch at 7pm GMT…watch it here.
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Vincent misses the point
Normally I like Vincent Browne, even when I don’t agree with him. But todays piece in the Irish Times is bordering on lunacy, at least in my opinion. An opinion that I am expressing freely. On a blog. On the ‘Internet’. Has Vincent heard of new media? Let’s put his views up here for debate.…
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Pluto launch
I was all geared up to watch the New Horizons launch, and now its been scrubbed for another day :-(. Here’s hoping it lifts off tomorrow.
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Header image
I am trying to decide on a nice new image for the top of the blog, for the moment I am using a pic I stole off Rymus, though I have cropped images of my own at the ready. Perhaps I should let my readers decide what looks best, as long as there is a…
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