Technology, church music, bicycles, and life in Ireland
We delivered our verdict this week, and I feel like I’m only just starting to decompress about the whole experience. My jury service started last week, but it wasn’t until the third day of attending the court house that I actually got selected to serve on a jury. Jury selection The actual jury selection process […]
Since the usage of Mastodon exploded last November a number of online publishing tools such as Tumbler and Medium have started supporting the ActivityPub protocol that underpins Mastodon. What I didn’t realise however is that there’s a WordPress plugin called ActivityPub that enables folk to publish their blog posts using the protocol. It means that […]
Ireland’s Climate Action Plan has a target to have 30% of private cars powered by electric by 2030 – or a total of 945,000 vehicles. And they have backed up this target by providing grants and incentives to encourage people to buy electric vehicles (EVs). But are they targeting the wrong thing? As an example, […]
I got the Samsung Galaxy Watch 5 as a gift for a recent birthday, and for the most part I really like it, but there’s one thing that annoys me. The watch can automatically detect a number of activities, including walking, running, elliptical trainers, rowing machines, dynamic workouts, and swimming. But for some reason they […]
If you have one New Year’s resolution this year, let it be to get on top of your online security. We all have so much information about us stored online these days – whether it’s financial information, private messages, or family photos stored in online albums. And we all have a part to play to […]
I was clearing through a box of ‘wires’ the other week, and found my old Apple iPod Photo – also known as an iPod Classic 4th Generation – which I’ve had since it was released in 2004. It had sat unused in a protective tweed cloth sleeve for a decade or more, and I was […]
