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Entries from April 2007

Environmental April fool?

April 25th, 2007 15 Comments

When I read this story about Sheryl Crow’s personal measures to save the environment I had to check the date on the piece to see if it was published on April 1.
Apparently not, but perhaps it should have been.

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Digicam versus DSLR

April 20th, 2007 4 Comments

For those of you in the market for a new digital camera, you’ll quickly find that there are somewhere approach seven million articles on the topic of Digicam versus DSLR

Many of the articles that I’ve read have highlighted the pros of DSLRs to include things such as interchangeable lenses, RAW image mode and higher ISO [...]

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US Property Price Rollercoaster

April 19th, 2007 No Comments

The Freakonomics Blog has an excellent little article on how the Yale economist Robert Shiller has plotted US house price data as an animated rollercoaster ride.
Check out the Google video to see the results.
Given all the recent doom and gloom we’re getting from the media about the future of the Irish property market, it might [...]

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New version of Typo!

April 18th, 2007 3 Comments

I’ve just noticed that Typo, the Ruby-on-Rails blogging engine that powers this site has become active again, after what appears to be a long hiatus.

The developers have also released a new version – v4.1. As soon as I get a chance, I’ll have to install it, and check it out. They have also [...]

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Lero is launched

April 18th, 2007 2 Comments

One of my CSETs, Lero was officially opened yesterday by Minister for Enterprise Trade and Employment, Micheál Martin

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