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Selection of articles written between 2005 and today.

  • Sound Education

    On the 24th of May I received a text message from the Leo Laporte of Irish podcasting, Bernie Goldbach, who is amongst other things, a lecture in computing and multimedia at Sligo IT. Bernie is a tireless proponent of Irish podcasting scene, so Francis McGillicuddy and I hopped along to the Clarence Hotel on his… Read more

  • Morrisisms

    ‘Morrisisms’ is the term given to the absurdist tongue twisting mind benders produced by legendary amusement pundit Christopher Morris, the creative force behind such controversial and wickedly funny shows as ‘Brass Eye‘, ‘The Day Today‘, and ‘Blue Jam‘. In The Day Today in particular, Morris’s penchant for bizarre and unaccountably funny wordplay (check the link… Read more

  • The Next Bebo

    The omnipresence of broadband, combined, at least in Trinity, with a paucity of computing resources, have resulted in a massive increase in student ownership of laptops, combined with resultant student familiarity with the web; ditto the use of email as a communications tool. Five years ago you’d never have arranged a party with an email… Read more

  • Technolotics #34 – Chindogu

    Technolotics #34 – Chindogu

    [audio https://garethstack.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/34_technolotics.mp3] Listen: Episode 34 Watch: Youtube Read more

  • D.U. Digicast Society

    Starting Wednesday, we’re making a brave and foolhardy attempt at setting up a digicast society in Trinity. All are welcome to come to the inaugural meeting, and non Trinity students are more than welcome to join – if and when the society gains approval from the college’s Central Society Committee. Here’s the spiel. The proposed… Read more

  • Technolotics #33 – Mouth Words

    [audio https://garethstack.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/33_technolotics.mp3] Listen: Episode 33 Watch: Youtube Feed: RSS Notes The Death of Net Neutrality Article by Daniel Berninger on GigaOM website. Argues that net neutrality refers to “the uses of the Internet not the quality of access”. Already a large number of classes of service available from the telcos, you pay for the performance and capacity of your… Read more