Author Archives: Donncha O Caoimh

About Donncha O Caoimh

Software developer at Automattic and WordPress plugin developer.

Will swap voice and texts for data

By | May 9, 2012

I hardly ever use up the monthly voice minutes and texts on my phone. Apparently carriers make more and more of their revenue from their customer’s data usage. Glad I’m near wifi most of the day! What about you?

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Harness racing on Cork’s roads

By | May 9, 2012

Two harness racers on the Cork to Mallow road defying Garda attempts to stop them and driving against traffic on a very busy road. Crazy guys, crazy. More on Reddit and Silicon Republic. This comment has received too many negative votes Look lads there are races on that road all the time with horses and [...]

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The Stability Treaty: How are you voting?

By | May 6, 2012

Like all the other European treaties the Irish public is being threatened with doomsday scenarios by both sides of The Fiscal Stability Treaty. Reddit user cianomahony posted the photo above in response. The Government says that the country won’t have access to any money if we vote no, but the Sunday Times asked the IMF [...]

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Why so skeptical?

By | May 4, 2012

In a few years time, there may well be no rhinos left alive. And when I say no rhinos, I do not mean “none left in the wild”. I mean none in the zoos either. The captive animals will have been killed too. The reason for this is an insatiable desire among some people for [...]

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Console BF3, now with servers to rent!

By | May 4, 2012

Yay, they bring the one thing I didn’t like about playing PC Battlefield games to the consoles. I could not care less about what server I play. I just want to squad up with my friends and play a game. Now, let me play with a keyboard and mouse and I’ll be happy. I’ve had [...]

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SubWars

By | May 2, 2012

When nobody on the subway gives an old man their seat … (via)

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The Placebo Effect

By | May 1, 2012

Via The Cork Skeptics who showed this video at their last meeting when Rebecca O’Neill talked about being a health food shop worker. (Audio of the talk here, Colm’s going to love all the pingbacks!)

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Reddit PvE Rev 6 Minecraft Server

By | April 25, 2012

One of the great things about Minecraft is that you can pack a level into one nice compressed archive. r/Minecraft on Reddit have a number of servers (I think) and this is one of them. You can download that world from here, it’s pveRev6.tar.gz but there are lots of other worlds there to check out [...]

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Wikipedia Irish Style

By | April 24, 2012

WordPress on Mickopedia via r/Ireland.

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