Reading the Irish Times in lectures

Ireland is least violent country in Europe - WHO report

Eoin O’Dell writes about laptop usage in lectures and how usage in his classes isn’t quite as high the US yet, but it’s growing every year. The screens that I’ve seen sitting behind people using laptops in DCU would confirm the that usage often isn’t for taking notes. However, I’ve read the Irish Times in a few lectures before. Continue reading

Too far fetched?

Is it too far fetched to think Microsoft released Vista the way it did so the next version — which we now know as Windows 7 — would sell better? Because no company could have released an OS so flawed on purpose, or could they have?

For the record Vista came installed on my laptop, and since the announcment of supporting XP for longer was made last year I’ve been thinking of upgrading to XP. Yes, it would be an upgrade.