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Tuesday, June 29, 2004

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.

posted by Eamonn | 10:09 AM | 0 comments

Wednesday, June 16, 2004

Control Room

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 however as it, for example, demonstrated the complicated realities of how journalists, whether from Fox News or Al Jazeera, unavoidably bring a point of view to their coverage, however committed they are to reporting the "truth".

One of the compelling characters in the film was a press officer at Central Command whom Salon reports is being muzzled by the Pentagon.

posted by Eamonn | 11:30 AM | 0 comments

Tuesday, June 15, 2004

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.

posted by Eamonn | 5:20 PM | 0 comments

Monday, June 14, 2004

Peering at Phoebe

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, imagining yourself flying just a few kilometers above the surface. It's quite exhilarating.

posted by Eamonn | 6:20 PM | 0 comments

Tuesday, June 08, 2004

New home for my blog.

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 Movable Type blog I was hosting. So here I am re-starting the blog again, but this time hosted on blogger’s own servers. Hopefully I can trust Google with my data more that I can trust myself.

All the previous entries in the blog were hand-entered by copying from the Google cache or the wayback machine copies of my pages. It is not complete but hopefully it should include the more popular pages (otherwise the Google and wayback machine spiders would not have saved them).

posted by Eamonn | 10:25 PM | 0 comments