Well, I have just spent an entire weekend using Windows, amounting to probably more hours than I had spent with this operating system in the previous six months! Of course, this meant that I had to endure loads of automatic updates, their drain on bandwidth and automatic restarts! It was …

Well, this is kind of embarrassing. In October, I implemented the GNU Scientific Library as part of the science project I mentioned in the previous post. Since I was working towards an actual deadline, I guess I was too hurried to thoroughly check what licence the GSL uses. Apparently, I …

The time has come for me to return to this blog and explain my absence for the last few months. I was spending a lot of time working on a project for a prestigious science and technology exhibition. As such, between that and school work, I had basically no time …

Well, it appears that yet another trend is emerging in the vast, superficial numbers-game that is social media marketing. A number of my school colleagues went to a nearby careers exhibition today, at which numerous colleges from around the country were advertising their curricula. Having been there myself a year …

Twenty years ago yesterday, Slappy Squirrel was introduced to America as "the crankiest of creatures in the whole wide world". The next day, however, another contender entered the race: Marty Crane! That's right, today marks the twentieth anniversary of the début of another excellent television programme, Frasier! This day twenty …

Yes, I know it's Friday 13, 2013, but that's not what I'm talking about.

I am talking about the 20th anniversary of the première of one of the most wonderful (if not the most wonderful) cartoons to ever grace television: Animaniacs!

Yep, twenty years! Life suddenly seems very long, doesn't …

Just a note to say that advanced chambers are now being developed for our Portal 2 mod Aperture Ireland. A patch has also been released to allow installation with the SteamPipe version of Portal 1. Please read the full post on ModDB for more information.

On the political side of …

Here in Ireland, we have a terrestrial digital television broadcasting service called SaorView. There are eight TV channels available:

1. RTÉ One, which broadcasts in 576i
2. RTÉ Two, which broadcasts in 1080i
3. TV3, which broadcasts in 576i
4. TG4, which broadcasts in 576i
5. 3e, which broadcasts in 576i
6. RTÉ News Now, which …

It recently came to my attention that Minister for Education Ruairí Quinn likened the Junior Certificate to a "sausage squeezing machine", "squeezing creativity and curiosity out of the classroom". [Source: Limerick Leader] So, all of my friends and I have apparently been squeezed through this unmerciful sausage factory in recent …

There are a few ways of using animation tricks to "destroy" the 2013 logo of Universal Studios (or a Blender remake of it, at least).

Here it is, Warner Bros. Animation style:

...And Mozilla style (which is kind of related, since, you know, Mozilla started off inside Netscape, which was …