Archive for January, 2008

Saturday, January 19th, 2008

The Internet Party: When Google’s Parents Leave Town…

…and Google invites everyone she knows around for a shindig.
Warning: you must have a geek rating of about π out of 5 to enjoy this.
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Saturday, January 19th, 2008

Lazy Saturday #1 - the art of the remix

Only heard this for the first time today - it’s mad to think that this…
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…can become this…
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Pretty [...]

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Friday, January 18th, 2008

World’s Worst Error Message

Enjoy.

**EDIT - I should outline that this, in fact, was an error message I actually got myself on the afternoon in question.

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Saturday, January 12th, 2008

To Law or Not To Law?

That, indeed, is the question.
Lately Brennan’s been suggesting to me - with good merit, it must be said - that given I’d much rather be a writer than a journalist, and having seen my supposed ability to look after people on a personal level with my job in UCDSU, that I should follow up on [...]

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Saturday, January 12th, 2008

And so I made the time.

As I said I would here - and then I got a text a little earlier.
I see your action on the boards! There is the Gav I knew!!!
Resolutions are sooo easy.

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Friday, January 11th, 2008

Just another day in the life…

What is it about the best New Year’s Resolutions falling by the wayside so easily? After being in London for the New Year period I came home with every intention of giving blogging a serious go, as I did when I had little else to do in my last days in Passau on Erasmus. But [...]

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Monday, January 7th, 2008

Design of the Future: the moving library chair

Hitting the StumbleUpon toolbar for the last hour or so and came across this page on a design blog. A Dutch designer named Jelte van Geest has come up with a novel solution for that ever-present(!) problem we all have in libraries, when you just can’t ever get a chair to sit down anywhere near [...]

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