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Tales of A Zoom H4n – Shane Howard – Portarlington

Shane Howard - Portarlington 2009

Back in September last year Jools and I went off to see Shane Howard play at Harvester Moon in Portarlington. (If you aren’t on their mailing list you should be). We decided to make a bit of day of  it soRead the Rest »

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Test from the iPhone

I just found the WordPress app for the iPhone. I get to type a post in one character at a time. Seriously boring. I have been playing with Twitter a lot in the last few months Twitter/thatchspace. Finger is gettingRead the Rest »

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Monday Morning “Impediment to Productivity” – 20090504

Hi, So for the time being let’s be wildly optimistic and assume that this missive is going to go back to it’s regular schedule (the odds are against it but as Leonard Cohen said “the optimism keeps breaking through”) AnywayRead the Rest »

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Monday Morning “Impediment to Productivity” – 20080901

Hi, Over at the Washington Post there was an article that drove me crazy http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/08/AR2008080802919_pf.html Indonesia is claiming “viral sovereignty” over the bird flu. Yep, it’s claiming that since the virus samples are found in the country, Indonesia owns theRead the Rest »

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Yahoo discovers Project Gutenberg. 20 years late

“The Open Content Alliance is an unusual alliance of corporations, nonprofit groups and universities who have an ambitious plan to digitize hundreds of thousands of books over the next several years and put them on the Internet, with the fullRead the Rest »

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Dermal Nanotech Display

Visualizing the Future: Dermal Nanotech Display This nanotech dermal display is a designer concept, based on real nanoscience principles. Seattle-based designer Gina Miller, working together with nanotech populariser Robert A. Freitas Jr., describes the concept: In his book Nanomedicine, VolumeRead the Rest »

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