Archive for November 16th, 2007
Cork Sailing Blog
Posted on November 16, 2007, by Conor O'Neill, under Cork, Ireland.
We went on our summer holidays to Barley Cove for 11 years in a row as kids. On several of those years we went to Garnish Island via Glengarrif. That was as far as I ever got on the Beara peninsula until last week when I visited Adrigole. I honestly can’t put into words how beautiful it is down there. If I was American I’d call it God’s country. Perfect views on a perfect day made me want to immediately retire and move there.
I also discovered that there is a blog been written down there by Gail and the West Cork Sailing team. Now I’ve never been into sailing or boats but this could get me interested. Lots of reports from the vessels themselves along with lovely photos. I’m now subscribed.
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Science Week: Invention which helps work
Posted on November 16, 2007, by Conor O'Neill, under Technology.
Today’s Science Week Question is an easy one “Which invention has helped you most with your working life?“. Of course it is the internet. The highlights of my history with it are as follows:
- 1990: Learned it existed when I started Masters in UCD
- 1991: Figured out email, Usenet news, Gopher. Discovered ftp.funet.fi and the world of shareware
- 1992: First job in S3. Email only. Figured out ftpmail to download programs overnight on 14.4k modem
- 1994: Found out about the web. Used Mosaic for the first time
- 1995: Discovered Free software, FSF, GPL, Open Source OS called RTEMS and GCC.Yahoo, Excite, Altavista, Lycos
- 1996-2000: Web developed and so did I. Online purchasing, Google, Yahoo mail, IOL, indigo, eircom.net, ISDN, Netscape, Mozilla, Internet Explorer, Geocities, homepages, animated gifs
- 2001-2003: Startup with ISDN only. Discovered SEO, dmoz, blogging, RSS
- 2003-now: Live it and breath it 16 hours a day. DSL, mobile, ATOM, Reviews, Semantic Web, Web 2.0, Social Networking, IM, Skype, Firefox, Widgets, Flash
The greatest invention in my lifetime and my job would not exist without it.
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