Tiernans Comms Closet

installed the Wibiya toolbar to the bottom of the page… what do you think? Like? dislike? comments welcome.

a couple of days ago, i was browsing Programmable Web under their SMS keyword, and was thinking about how interesting it would be to get an app (web app or service) to listen to SMS messages and maybe even reply. and then it came to me: why SMS? Why not Twitter?
Twitter has a nice API [...]

After nearly 3 years of service, my Mac Pro has left the building… well, not literally, it’s still on the desk, but it won’t boot no more… RIP my old (but sometimes annoying friend)…
Since the machine is now dead, i have started to look at my next workstation… which i hope to have running by [...]

Congrads to the Windows Teams who have RTMed both Win 7 and Win2k8R2 today! should be available on the MSDN by August 6th and more info about when you can get it is here. cant wait to get my hands on this! Congradulations to all envolved!

A while back i talked about a company called Diomede who had a new way of storing data… i wont go into too much detail here (check the old post) but basically they offered 3 ways of storing your data: online, near line and offline… online accessible instantly, near line available within 5 min of [...]

Installed wptogo on my g1, testing its goodness…

A mobile version of this blog is availabe at the same URL as the main site! Some magic in the back with wordpress mobile edition makes sure the site looks good on most mobile devices. Check out the following screen shot from my iPod touch.

Ok, this is more of a Random Post than anything else, but here goes nothing…
I have been playing with ZFS for the last couple of weeks, under a VMWare VM with a copy of Nexenta Core and i am quite impressed.
Some things i have learned to do and how they work below:

some basics on creating [...]

Finally, after a while trying to get this to work, WordPress is powering this site… I am sing the SVN build, so things can get a bit wonky, but so far so good!
Will post a bit about how i am backing up the server soon, but any comments, please leave them below.