So, I love my lenovo tablet, so far through all the trails, tribulations, transcontinental visits, banging, bashing, bumping, swinging, twisting, scribbling, et al, its survived and become a near essential piece of my working and personal development. Famous…Last…Words. Appear back at the house last night after a fwe bevvies with the guys and loe and behold, “Error 2100 - Hard drive initialization error” The BIOS cant see the harddrive. But wait, lenovo built in that seemingly pointless blue button to do recover right? Recovery off the hard drive… That it cant see. ...

I must apologise for my lack of activity on the blog, but more is coming. I’ve begun working towards working with Ian Clarke on his Swarm project, that is if i can bring my Java and Scala chops up to scratch enough to give meaningful impact. Beyond that I’m heading to NJ this week to be with my partner for her graduation and have my 21st birthday while im over there (21 means absolutly squat in Ireland, so I’m expecting a repeat of my 18th…) ...

Last week or there abouts, there was a big buzz around the interwebs revisiting Dan Kaminski’s OzymanDNS tool, a perl based toolkit for tunnelling TCP traffic over DNS requests (technically its TCP over SSL over DNS but whos counting) That was originally released mid-2004. I never really found the true source of the new hype surrounding a “old” project (it may have been HAK5’s episode 504 that demonstrated the tool, mubix has put the write up in at room362) ...

Ingredients: 2 eggs Dash of milk 1 tortilla Cheese assorted herbs and spices Eggs, Dash of milk, and Herbs etc into a bowl and whisk until uniform colour and consistency, pour into an appropriately sized (eg tortilla size) frying pan, pre-oiled (Extra Virgin Olive oil does the best) Turn the heat up to about half, and let the egg slowly cook When the bottom of the eggs are hard but the top is still liquid, grate the cheese over it so it melts into the eg, and then cover in the tortilla. ...

Yeah, i know, “What does a guy who hasnt even graduated yet and is in a placement job have to say about education and employability?”, and usually i would agree with the sentiment. But the times they are a-changing. The world, especially for current or incumbant students, is very uncertain. I was lucky, when i was in first year i already had the connections to secure a job close to my Uni. ...

Check Email / Twitter / Facebook / et-al for 10 minutes every 3 hours (10/1/4) Focus on 1-3 activites / fixes / waypoint actions a day Keep a Log of those actions Obviously this only applies to my working life :D Original

So, I’ve decided that each weekend i wanna have a fiddling project and document it for the blog. This week I’m gonna do a free bsd 7.1 install on the wreckage that is my old laptop. I’ll update when i get pictures ( Sorry, no VGA scanner, digital camera will have to do)

So, I’ve made the plunge and am determined to catch up on everything I’ve left behind the past couple of years. I have embraced the new interconnections, Twitter,LinkedIn, Facebook, Facebook is personal, LinkedIn will be exclusivly business, And as wel all know twitter is a free for all.