Archive for June, 2004

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29th June 2004 by Eamonn No Comments

Got an gmail account a few days ago. So far I like the interface a lot better than yahoo. As is usual with Google it is very clean and uncluttered. So far the targeted ads are unobjectionable, and the “related links” might actually be useful.

Control Room

16th June 2004 by Eamonn No Comments

Last night we saw the film “Control Room”, a behind-the scenes documentary of Al Jazeera covering the initial invasion of Iraq.
I watched some coverage of the war from the Arab side on the Mosaic news program so there was nothing really new factually in this film for me. It was still well worth seeing [...]

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15th June 2004 by Eamonn No Comments

Well, I did a quick look around on the net and most people seemed to think that w.bloggar is the best blogging tool. So here is my first attempt to post with it.

Peering at Phoebe

14th June 2004 by Eamonn No Comments

From
JPL:

Shown here is a mosaic of seven of the sharpest, highest resolution images taken of Phoebe during Cassini’s close flyby of the tiny moon. The image scales range from 27 to 13 meters (90 to 43 feet) per pixel.

Open up this full-res image, turn off the browser image shrinking and pan around in the image, [...]

New home for my blog.

8th June 2004 by Eamonn No Comments

Well, the upgrade of my obrain.com home server from an ancient version of Redhat Linux to the latest stable version of Debian Linux had mixed result. After struggling with a somewhat confusing installations process I eventually succeeded in getting things up and running, but in the process I lost my old entries for the [...]