January 12, 2010
A new Star Trek MMPOG, Star Trek Online, from Cryptic Studios is due to go live on February 2. I'm liking the back story videos. Set 30 years after the last TNG movie, Nemesis, it seems to pit the Federation against the...
October 9, 2009
If all goes well, I hope to, in the next few weeks, be co-opted onto the board of a new Community Radio station called Western Waves FM. The station will hope to cover the South Donegal / North Leitrim area. My area of...
August 21, 2009
I’ve been pottering around North Leitrim for a while now since I got back from my stay at a Maltese hospital. The pace of life here is a little slower than I’m used to in Dublin. I’ve checked out local sources of...
May 2, 2009
Earlier last month, Zimbra release a beta version of their new Collaberation Suite. This is now version 6 of the increasing popular rival to Microsoft's Exchange. Last year, I setup the open source flavour of version 5 with...
February 22, 2009
I just downloaded the Mirawebware plugin for my Vista Media Centre that’s hooked up to my TV, and have access to lots of TV station streams online. I've missed BBC Parliament since I had to ditch Sky Digital when I moved into...
February 7, 2009
I’ve had a lot of fun, in a good way, this week, working with PHPMotion, a media sharing CMS. It’s been bit tricky installing oall the necessary encoders but by no means impossible. There is also extensive support on...
January 1, 2009
Back to work on Friday where I have the dubious honour of redoing some work I did 4 months ago. My toil is compounded by the fact that none of this has been coste In short, I have to make plans to get a 4MB data connection...
November 22, 2008
Buggered the first five mins of the event, but managed to pull it together and sort it out. In the end, we had 358 listeners over a 35 min period. Our maximum number of simultaneous listeners was 77. Well down on the 300 max I...
November 22, 2008
In light of recent video related set backs, we’re going to try and broadcast a press conference with audio only and put it up as a podcast later. I am using Icecast 2 as the streaming server with a flash client on the website....
May 5, 2008
This is the first posting on my new blog! The aim is to keep my sanity, and you up to date, with observations, trials and ordeals witnessed in an Irish I.T. Department for a high profile public company. Do feel free to post...