Since attending GUADEC I've been meaning to build Gnome-Shell from source and give it a serious try. Unfortunately, the few times I had the time to work on it my trusty laptop couldn't handle it, in that even left alone for 3 or 4 hours it couldn't manage to finish …

Another lovely look into Feynman's life, this book is a collection of letters Feynman sent during his lifetime. Witty replies to friends and laypeople, humble (and sometimes annoyed!) comments about the Nobel Prize, encouraging answers to students and many different types of letter make for a very interesting and entertaining …

I'm back from a short holiday (therefore of course sick, but it was relaxing up to that point!). I found out last week-end that the paper I wrote with my FYP supervisor, based on my final year project and dissertation in UL, has been published! The article abstract is available …

Last Monday was the last session of my short "Introduction to programming, with Python" class. Eight adults signed up, the course lasted for 5 weeks on Monday evenings and overall the impressions are positive. I made progress in places, and learnt how to improve in others.

Last Thursday I happily attended TEDx Dublin 4.0 at the Science Gallery. I thought it was a bit too computer sciency slanted (I really enjoyed the 3rd edition, with talks on physical product design, or shark slime, and other very interesting things I would never have thought about otherwise …