Urgh, I've been desperately trying to get back on top of my inbox since studying for the exam. I think this week-end I might win the fight!

In the meantime, 2 interesting links on education & technology:

• Brian talks about Irish schools and ICT. This gives an interesting view of the …

I decided to try out Planet Venus over the week-end, a popular blog aggregation system. The end result is pretty neat, I really like how it works (though I must say it's the first blog aggregator I ever look into.)

The documentation very sensibly insists on running all the unit …

XTerm control sequences are those sequences of characters that when typed into a terminal, can have all sort of cool side-effects. Try this one:

$ echo -e '\e[33;45mHello!'

If you're not too enthused about yellow and magenta (shame!) type in:

$ echo -e '\e[0m'

Many other neat things can …

It's proven difficult to write up a summary of my experience as someone-who's-not-a-hardcore-open-source-contributor-yet-but-certainly-plans-on-becoming-one. There's an easy dialogue-killing answer to any anecdote I relate: "suck it up." I'm still trying to find a way to express all this though, because I'm sure there's something to learn from any newcomer's attempt to …

Had an awesome time at OSS Bar Camp yesterday! I attended some awesome talks about healthcare in developing countries, automating documentation, open-source sustainability, SELinux, ZFS/BTRFS, UCD open-source lab... (which I hope to go visit for Irish coding day next week-end, after hearing some awesome things about their facilities.)

As …