It started with a question: How can we inspire people to take action on climate change? The answer: Ask the people of Sydney to turn off their lights for one hour. On 31 March 2007, 2.2 million people and 2100 Sydney businesses turned off their lights for one hour – Earth Hour. This massive collective effort reduced Sydney’s energy consumption by 10.2% for one hour, which is the equivalent effect of taking 48,000 cars off Read more
Something that I’ve been meaning to do for a while is to carve a spoon. After coming back from Matty’s wedding on Friday I noticed that a bough had broken off a sycamore tree in a nearby park. I took that as a sign to get on with it. So today I went up with a pocket saw and cut off a few sections of branches. Sycamore is a fairly soft wood and when its Read more
On Thursday my cousin Matty got married in Terrath Co. Wexford. I’ve uploaded the pics; most are only visible to friends and family. Read more
Dino has created an Irish Geocoin! Preorders are currently (until Saturday!) being taken at http://geocoins.croaghan.com/This is the first official Irish Geocoin and probably will not be re-minted so get your orders in! Read more
Tonight I noticed that one of my favourite cartoonists is syndicated online. Martin Turner does the daily cartoon for the Irish Times and usually has a politcal theme. I’ve resisted speaking about the current crisis in Israel and Lebanon on my blog. I think Martin captures what’s happening quite well in this cartoon from early on in the conflict: Trócaire ,an Irish overseas development agency, have been appealing for donations on Irish radio, they accept Read more
I’ve been getting a bit lazy thanks to Google Earth. Just type in an address (works best in the US) and you have the coordinates. Plug the coords into the GPS and you are fine. I’m in the US at the moment and staying in a hotel I’ve not been in before. So I googled for it, got the address, added that to google earth… And turned my GPS on at Milbrae BART Station. The Read more
www.cybuscorporation.com – Runs the SunOne webserver. Cybus founded in 1982, Sun Microsystems founded 1982.Participation age eh? Perhaps its too easy to get too stuck into Dr. Who! 🙂 Long live the Daleks! Read more
Last week .eu domains went on sale to the general public in EU countries. Today there are 17,645 active .eu domains registered in Ireland out of a total of 1,410,297. Some of those 17.645 are mine. I’ve moved my personal website from cademuir.net to www.cademuir.eu. I’ve also set up www.realteolaiocht.eu which at the moment just points to the Irish Astronomical Dictionary on the South Dublin Astronomical Society website. I recently decided to change the SDAS Read more
Well done Dave! 20th position in the olympics isnt bad at all! Dave spent a while working with the Performance Benchmarking group in Sun. Skeleton results Friday 17 Friday Men’s individual: Final overall positions: run 1, run 2, final 1 Duff Gibson (Canada) 57.80secs, 58.08secs, 1min 55.88 secs 2 Jeff Pain (Canada 57.98, 58.16, 1:56.14 3 Gregor Staehli (Switzerland) 58.41, 1:56.80 4 Paul Boehm (Canada) 58.61, 58.45, 1:57.06 5 Kristan Bromley (Great Britain) 58.35, 58.75, Read more
I’m into astronomy. I’m currently doing an MSc in it. But mainly I like it as a hobby, usually just observing but also imaging. Most astrophotography software is written for windows (MaximDL, Registax, ImagesPlus), the pros will use IRAF but that’s overkill for most of what I do. Earlier in the year I got a canon 350D (digital rebel XT to the yanks). And most useful processing tools for regular images are windows only also Read more