Archive for April, 2005

Forest fall again

Saturday, April 30th, 2005

Today Nottingham Forest were finally relegated to League One after losing 2-1 to QPR.
I have followed them for about ten years now and there has not been much to cheer about. I missed the heady days of league triumph and Euro. I started supporting them the season after they finished third in the Premiership. [...]

firefox reaches 50 million downloads

Friday, April 29th, 2005

Within the next few hours, Firefox will reach 50 million downloads worldwide - woo hoo!
If you are bored you can even sit and watch the counter
Firefox: Blazing a Trail to 50,000,000

When the Smoke Clears

Monday, April 25th, 2005

I caught RTE’s spiritual documentary series Would You Believe last night after er.
It focused on a group of seminarians at Maynooth College and their reaction to the new Pope. It was most interesting to see such divergence of opinion from even this small group of trainee priests. What surprised me most was that the younger [...]

Will Adobe buying Macromedia lead to Fireworks?

Monday, April 18th, 2005

I heard this morning that Adobe are to Acquire Macromedia for $3.4 Billion.
Adobe, whose products include the industry standard graphics software, Photoshop, and the pdf format, will now own the Flash format and add the standard web page editor Dreamweaver and graphics packages Fireworks and Freehand to its offerings.
While I’ve no gripe with Adobe, this [...]