Ransomware Panic on the desktop
Malware is a useful catch all term, but sometimes things are nastier than viruses and auto-deleting thingamajigs. For example; Ransomware put simply it is a nasty program which put itself on your...
View ArticleGold crap
Technically its alchemy. Michigan State University researchers have discovered a metal-tolerant bacteria, Cupriavidus metallidurans, that can survive and grow on high concentrations of gold chloride, a...
View ArticleDublin double rainbow
Sometimes when it rains in Ireland, we need twice the normal cheer up.
View ArticleI have been busy with nerds
It seems like months ago that a US based TV crew came to film a Coder Dojo session and interview a few of the participants. Well folks the video is up and it shows sessions in the NCS Cork and the...
View ArticleSometimes a lie is just as good
Sometimes a lie is just as good Embedded Link comics: rhymes with witch rhymes with witch: the last trick-or-treaters part 19 october 12, 2012.
View ArticleThankfully
The LBC are looking at “This Will Be My Epitaph” as a topic, and Grannymar offered a tombstone generator. So this is my epitaph, because I like puns. Unfortunately the generator can’t take accented...
View ArticleTwo cups of coffee sitting on the wall
Its a simple idea, but in Ireland I think it would need to be adapted slightly, simply by putting a closing time on the wall.What am I talking about well… Giving is sometimes easy, but you can make it...
View ArticleThe rain falls down
The icy weather across the country has broken for rain. And I'm playing catch-up with the Loose Bloggers Consortium, again. The missed topics are "Rains", "Doom and Gloom" and "Music" so the song below...
View ArticleStars in the sky
Patrick Moore wasn’t just a man, but an institution. For a few generations in the UK an Ireland, if you was “astronomer” its his face and voice that come to mind. Odd, eccentric, passionate about...
View ArticleAbout Instagram
If you are going to sell my pictures without me getting a cut and not call it piracy… Bye.
View ArticleTouched
She was touched to receive the exquisitely packaged chocolates. Her next of kin discovered that crema was a hazelnut cream and not a vanilla cream. When the nuts touched her throat, it swelled from...
View ArticleJust saying that this is Dublin
"I still believe in Bewley's"… I think that's the only line you would need to change to do a version of this in any Irish town or city. I still believe in Sir Henry's, I still believe in King John's, I...
View Article200km apart but may be different worlds
Guess which is the Dublin calendar and which is the Cork calendar?
View ArticleSelf Help Bookings
I'll admit that sometimes best intentions don't work out as well as expected.I joined the LBC, the Loose Bloggers Consortium the idea was that I'd write more. Then life got in the way. In my case, a...
View ArticleDays with my feet in the clouds
In ancient Ireland there were three classical elements; fire, earth and a combined element we would describe as air/water. The fact that air and water used to be considered as the same element says a...
View ArticleMentors
I suspect that I’m unusual in the LBC in that I’m childless. Having said that, I’ve ended up working with kids thanks to CoderDojo. And if its something they are interested in, they learn fast. I...
View ArticleCheese, onion and Chocolate
I can only assume that the Tayto cheese and onion crisp chocolate bar is a childhood dream come true for someone. In the days when mixing your snacks together (probably with fizzy orange and birthday...
View ArticleDon’t even blink
It seems that the +LEGO angels take Manhattan too. Wonder what the +Doctor Who TARDIS Crew think. Don’t even blink It seems that the +LEGO angels take Manhattan too. Wonder what the +Doctor Who TARDIS...
View ArticleBad Girl and the Summer
Partially to see how well the sharing works from Soundcloud, and partially because it sounds like an early morning summer's night. Expect to hear this one a lot in July. Embedded Link Natalia Kills –...
View ArticleEat me
Coming to a fridge near you… +CoderDojo the Ice Cream. Embedded Link CoderDojo named cream of the crop in Ben & Jerry’s social entrepreneur competition Ben & Jerry’s co-founder Jerry...
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