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Cloudy skies, cloudy apps…

Posted in BI, ETL, Ireland, Palo, Web2.0, cloud, data, excel, news, olap, tagged , , , on August 28, 2008 | 4 Comments »

Just back from a break in Clifden, Connemara, summer is nearly over, the kids return to school today, back to work.
Counties Galway and Mayo were like the rest of the country last week, a tad wet, but unlike the developed east of the island, flooding was not a problem; a problematic drainage area is called [...]

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Nollaig Shona Daoibh

Posted in Ireland, tagged , , , , , , , , on December 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

It’s December 21st, the shortest day of the year; either the middle of winter or the start, depending on your view (here in Ireland, winter really only kicks in from mid-December onwards). The lucky annual lottery winners had a fantastic clear frosty morning to witness the solstice dawn in Newgrange, but the [...]

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Trying out Vodafone’s 3G service.

Posted in Ireland, Rathmore, broadband, eadestown, tagged , , , on October 29, 2007 | 2 Comments »

For over a week this month our local OmniTel wireless broadband was out of action (the 3rd major interruption of service in the last year). As usual I had to revert back to my 64Kbps ISDN line which is not as bad as analogue dial-up but it’s still a shock to the system! [...]

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Excel 2007 bug and the chance of being hit by a meteorite.

Posted in ETL, Ireland, excel, tagged , , , , , , on September 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Joel On Software gives a very good technical explanation of the Excel 2007 53,535 as 100,000 bug. And, as he points out, it only affects 12 out of a potential 9.214*10^18 floating point numbers, so is he worried?
…no, the chance that you would see this in real life calculations is microscopic. Better worry about [...]

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Rain Has Stopped

Posted in Ireland on September 1, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Summer eventually arrived, the rain has stopped; last two weeks of August have being warm and dry if not always sunny. Managed to give the kids at least some more time at the beach before they had to go back to school. As usual for our short breaks we headed to Waterford’s “Copper [...]

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It’s still raining….

Posted in Ireland, tagged , , , on August 17, 2007 | 1 Comment »

Fantastic picture from a July post to the Ice Cream Ireland blog. It’s now mid-way through August and it’s still raining…

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Rain Radar

Posted in Ireland, tagged on August 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

As those of you reading this from Ireland or the UK know, this has been a very very very wet summer. The most useful technology for dealing with it has been breathable wet gear on the principle that there’s no such thing as bad weather just bad clothing. But on two occasions this [...]

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What use is a blog to a small business?

Posted in Ireland, Web2.0, tagged , on August 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

In future when Frank Fullard is asked that question (and the associated “What would I blog about?”) he’s going to point to the Ice Cream Ireland site. I’ve been in their shop in Dingle (if you like ice cream you’ll love it) but I was unaware they also had an outlet in Killarney, now [...]

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