http://keogh.net Mon, 18 Sep 2006 17:36:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I graduated from Trinity College Dublin in Genetics which involved learning Fortran77 and writing DNA analysis s/w (back in the days before Perl hit the Bioinformatics scene). As a kid I'd always tinkered with computers, writing BASIC programs on my Atari 800XL, all the way up through undergrad I'd always ... http://keogh.net/2006/08/29/culture-shock/ The days of Northern Ireland with a Unionist majority are drawing to a close. Elections for the past 30 years show one thing and one thing only - the end is nigh. The number of votes that Unionism has in excess of Nationalism has shrunk from 272,000 in 1973 to ... http://keogh.net/2006/08/28/the-vote-gap-between-unionism-and-nationalism/ A couple of months back my brother forwarded me a link to what is one of the funniest youtube video I have ever seen Dublin Rap Song. It is a comedic rap between two Dubliners from the "posh" Southside and the "working class" Northside. I've shown it to several of ... http://keogh.net/2006/08/25/anto-and-finton-nucentz/ "Body Bags 2." "Oooh, that's imaginative. I've got more taste in my penis." Lee Donowitz True Romance (1993) We have all been hearing the long loud laments from Hollywood about declining attendence, blah, blah, blah. With these forthcoming gems of cinematographic is it any wonder? Die Hard IV ... http://keogh.net/2006/08/08/ive-got-more-taste-in-my-penis/ I really love my Netflix account. I've been using it for years and at this point I've rated almost 3000 movies. Granted just over 900 of those I never, ever want to see and most of those I wish had never been made - but hey that's enough about me. ... http://keogh.net/2006/08/07/your-netflix-ratings/ Reading through my Irish News email (courtesy of Jay Dooling) I came across this Belfast Telegraph article discussing road traffic safety in Ireland (Republic Roads Are Amongst The Most Deadly In Europe). The Unionist Pravda is taking these tragic events are trying to spin an anti-Republic line. A survey by ... http://keogh.net/2006/08/04/road-fatalities-and-unionist-propaganda/ The MIT software development group Simile have created several interesting semantic web applications of which their Timeline javascript application recently caught my eye. I am very interested in alternate representations of data that yield a more holistic overview allowing the detection of patterns and relationships that are not easily visualised ... http://keogh.net/2006/08/03/orange-hall-attacks-timeline/ In Lima, Peru in the Miraflores neighbourhood there is a park by the ocean where lovers congregate to watch the rapid and often impressive sunsets - Parque del Amor. Why there is a statue of Charles Haughey there I do not know, why he's lying atop some floozie is somewhat ... http://keogh.net/2006/08/02/charlie-haughey-honoured-paramour/