Ah the participation age! Here (live!) at the IFAS stand at the Connacht Star Party we have nearly live 3D images from Mars. Midnight Mars Browser is Java application that can download images from the two Nasa rovers on Mars. So we downloaded images from the surface for the past couple of days, some of […]
I had a bit of a cold this weekend, so didn’t leave the house much. In fact I didn’t leave my bed much. To pass the time I decided to learn Java. As you do. First stop was netbeans.org to download the IDE. I could have just started writing the code in vi but I
A colleague of mine made an interesting comment today while we were getting a cup of tea. (We drink lots of tea in Patch Test, possibly because there is a big whiteboard near the kettle, or rather a kettle near a big whiteboard somewhere other than a meeting room…) Anyway, the comment was about the
Bubble dejaVu In the bubble days it wasn’t uncommon to have several mails a day from somewhere in Sun telling you about some big announcement, or some big sale. Today was just like one of those days. For a start, after a couple of years of painfully low presence in the Top 500 Sun plans