Archive for April, 2006

How to Write a Scientific Paper

Friday, April 28th, 2006

Following a discussion about the work that goes into completing a thesis, I was pointed towards the following document - How to Write a Scientific Paper + found it quite useful.

This isn’t Dana’s eurovision…

Tuesday, April 25th, 2006

Following in the footsteps of Dana, Abba, and the like, we have this years Eurovision entry from finland… Lordi. (through the New York Times, the International Herald Tribune and various others)

more stuff for sale

Monday, April 24th, 2006

another phone for sale…this time a cordless landline phone, again, there’s a surplus, and I’m trying to cut down on as much stuff as possible.

more mapping stuff

Monday, April 24th, 2006

Google maps have added high resolution pictures for Galway. Now you can see my parents house, the college bar and Storm Technology! Safe to say these locations are now high-res in google earth too…

more gmail on phone stuff

Monday, April 17th, 2006

I was sent an email asking about setting up gmail or meteor’s own email on a sony k500i with meteor as an ISP. As far as I know, there’s no easy way to get the secure certificate mentioned in my other post onto this phone, so you won’t be able to pop gmail. I wasn’t […]

Blatent commercialism - eBay.ie: Sony Ericsson t630 for sale

Thursday, April 6th, 2006

My old phone is for sale on ebay - I’m putting the link here in the hopes of increasing the bids on it.
eBay.ie: Sony Ericsson t630 sim free/unlocked with data cable (item 9123180903 end time 13-Apr-06 10:51:38 BST)

Phone update part 2

Wednesday, April 5th, 2006

Java apps which I’ve decided are worth installing on the mobile (and will help you run up your bill):
Google Local Mobile
Opera Mini
j2me VNC client
MidpSSH

phone update…

Wednesday, April 5th, 2006

As my contract was up, the old mobile phone has been upgraded to a sony ericsson w800i - after updating the firmware to the latest version, it pretty much does everything - plays music in my preferred format, videos (if I convert them to 3gp), and all importantly does email. I had a few problems […]