Sean McGrath's blog

Emotionally yours

Sean McGrath — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:20:29 -0400

All around me I see tech savvy kids that are growing up as brand consumers...What will the world of branding be like when these kids get old enough and empowered enough to raise purchase orders for the enterprise IT systems?

Knowing Java is not knowing much

Sean McGrath — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 12:03:07 -0400

Knowing Java is not knowing much. Knowing C is not knowing much. Same for Javascript ECMA 262. The same is true for many other languages. Not all of them, but many of them.

E-mail is for postcards

Sean McGrath — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 09:16:46 -0400

I am having an increasing number of "all spam downloads" on my computer. I download e-mail, my spam filters tag the spam, it gets
trashed and my inbox ends up completely empty. 100% futile e-mail downloads. Wow.

Web pages seen through Chrome tinted glasses

Sean McGrath — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 14:25:14 -0400

Where have all the web pages gone?

Free Linux Laptop with every inkjet printer?

Sean McGrath — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 12:35:46 -0400

I am bit slow between the ears sometimes. Sometimes things take a long time to sink in and when they do, I have a "duh!" moment. I had one recently in an outlet of well known, computer chain store. I wandered up the printer aisle marvelling at the inventiveness of the printer manufacturers in conjuring up so many mutually incompatible containers that all serve to delivery streams of cyan, magenta, yellow and black ink. Such diversity in a such a small amount of shelf space.

SOHO PC Racks

Sean McGrath — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:51:46 -0400

If I can order a rack of ribs, why can't I order a rack of PCs?

Return of the sneakernets

Sean McGrath — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:56:05 -0400

Technology is like Irish weather sometimes - but on a slightly longer time-scale. Just wait a while and the Irish weather is guaranteed to
change. Just wait a while longer and the original weather will come back again. Similarly, just wait a while and technology is sure to
change. Just wait a while longer and the original technology just might come right back at ya.

Content-free acronyms

Sean McGrath — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:17:42 -0400

Do IT acronyms mean anything any more?

Dark data and the digital sense organ

Sean McGrath — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 10:53:38 -0400

What if little green men could sense data the way we see light? What would they "see" looking down on Earth?

Musings on photographic metadata

Sean McGrath — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 12:34:13 -0400

Snapping away recently with my lovely new digital camera, it occurred to me that the many megabytes of data I was chewing through as I shutter-bugged my way through the vineyard, would be so much more useful with the addition of some small number of bytes of well chosen meta-data.