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"The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep..."

Thu, 06 Oct 2011 01:56:43 +0100

“The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.”

- Steve Jobs

The Hype Machine

Thu, 22 Sep 2011 22:49:10 +0100

The Hype Machine:

Some of the best music gathered from known music blogs around the internet and then ranked on popularity. Epic

"50 told me, go ‘head, switch the style up And if they hate then let ‘em hate and watch..."

Sun, 18 Sep 2011 21:10:00 +0100

“50 told me, go ‘head, switch the style up And if they hate then let ‘em hate and watch the money pile up”

- Kanye West - Good Life

effyeahnerdfighters: (submitted by statictransmissons)

Thu, 28 Apr 2011 19:25:35 +0100

effyeahnerdfighters:

(submitted by statictransmissons)

Leaving Cert be gone!

Tue, 26 Apr 2011 20:09:00 +0100

Things the leaving cert has caused me not to do this week

Read things that are interesting and not on some arbitrary curriculum
Learn more music on the piano
Write more code
Meet up with friends

The sum total of the personal importance of these things at the moment is greater than the need to get 600 points. Couple that with the fact that the maximum points I predict I need for my 1st choice this year given a huge rise will be ~400 it’s hard to motivate oneself to hit the books.

Leaving cert be gone!

/rant

Fueling the Ben Folds addiction. Absolutely love this song from...

Tue, 08 Mar 2011 21:29:22 +0000

Fueling the Ben Folds addiction. Absolutely love this song from the latest album. Great work

Dvorak for the win?

Thu, 24 Feb 2011 15:45:22 +0000

So today I sat down to type out some Hamlet quotes for the mocks and it hit me that I was finally seeing an improvement in my typing, not only with a slight speedbump but that the rate of mistakes seems to have gone down quite a bit as well. So it seems that the change is finally starting to pay off ever so slightly. Don’t know how many hours practice I’ve had since I changed over but I’d hope that this level of improvement continues for the next while.

Now back to study….. which delights me not, nor exams either

New Music: Kate Miller-Heidke

Sat, 19 Feb 2011 16:54:51 +0000

Last night I had the opportunity to see the ever amazing Ben Folds live in concert for the first time and I can say it’s a concert I won’t soon forget. Ben played an incredibly good mix of both his old stuff and songs from his latest album “Lonely Avenue” to a very enthusiastic audience in Vicar Street.

The supporting act, Kate Miller-Heidke and her husband Kier, though are what I’d like to talk about. They’re an Australian 2-piece that are touring with Ben for his European tour and last night was their first time playing in Ireland. The music was fantastic with Kate singing and occasionally taking to the keyboard with Kier on the guitar singing backing vocals. Kate has an amazing voice (she’s won awards in Aus for classical singing) and the variety in the music was really really enjoyable, so much so that I rushed to pick up her “Curioser” as soon as the show ended. It’s been playing on repeat ever since and it keeps getting better and better every time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ojoqHbPmzg

I’d embed that video only youtube won’t let me. Give it a look. It’s very good

Simple humour works best

Mon, 24 Jan 2011 07:10:48 +0000

Simple humour works best

Cowengate

Sun, 16 Jan 2011 18:14:11 +0000

Why have I got the feeling that Cowen and company are having a laugh at our expense? They know the election is lost and are having a bit of craic. Biggest in-joke ever? I think so…

The Mathematics of Beauty

Sat, 15 Jan 2011 23:04:29 +0000

The Mathematics of Beauty :

The guys at OkCupid not only run a hugely successful website but now and again they run some very cool analysis of the data that the site generates. I absolutely love this type of mathematical analysis on what is essentially “noise”. The results are also interesting to note.

"If we amplify everything we hear nothing"

Sat, 01 Jan 2011 16:44:26 +0000

“If we amplify everything we hear nothing”

- Jon Stewart

Thing's I'm liking at the moment

Tue, 28 Dec 2010 13:46:14 +0000

The Inception Soundtrack by Hans Zimmer

Ever since I saw the film I have been listening to the the soundtrack quite a bit. I’m astonished to read that Zimmer wrote the entire thing without having seen the film once. I guess it shows how well himself and Christopher Nolan can work together when they’re paired up. Inception is just another great example of their work together. Both the Batman films were also very very impressive

Firefox 4 Beta builds

For the first time in a while Firefox seems like it can actually give Chrome a run for its money. It launches with minimal dock-bouncing and its rendering speeds are genuinely very good. There are some drawbacks in that not all the extensions that I’d usually install are updated to work with Firefox 4 Beta 8 yet (most notably Greasemonkey which is required for the Reddit Enhancement Suite - most useful thing ever) but no doubt these will come in time.

iTerm 2

Being honest the default Terminal app is lacking particularly with 256 colour support which just annoys me. iTerm was a great project until it was discontinued so I was really happy to hear that it had been forked and restarted. I’m discovering more and more little features as I use it. Autocomplete and full-screen are really nice when you want to get work done without distraction. As someone who tries to spend as much time in the command line as possible (just for the craic?) its nice to see that there’s finally a good Terminal emulator for OS X which can rival its counterparts on other OS’s (I’m looking at you Linux…)

Moleskin idea catcher

Mon, 27 Dec 2010 23:22:11 +0000

So I was fortunate enough to receive a pretty neat moleskin journal for Christmas and I’ve decided that I am going to try and keep it on my person for the entire year as a new years resolution with the intention of jotting down anything I find of interest whether it be ideas for web applications to develop in the future or even phone numbers of interest. I think it’ll be interesting to have after a full year of use to be able to review the year in detail and see how ideas progressed or were forgotten.

I’ve tried using various phone applications for this over the years on both iDevices and Android but I have a feeling a physical notebook will encourage me to keep more detailed notes and indeed to take them on a more frequent basis.

I have no idea if I’ll end up continuing this for the year but I’m determined to give it a good shot. No doubt I’ll post the interesting results here at some stage.

Patrick out!