Ireland

Ballintemple on Sullivan’s Quay.

If you go over to Google Maps and click on the location of the now demolished IDA building you’ll be told that you’re in Ballintemple, somewhere that is a few km to the east. A neat way to quickly get home if you happen to live in that area, but awkward when Google Timeline thinks I’ve been in Blackrock every time I head into town .. Odd things: The popup marker shows the old building there. Clicking on it will zoom out and mark the real Ballintemple on the map. Hopefully it’ll be fixed sooner rather than later as I […]

Web

Firefox printing with no headers and footers

First it was Netscape, then Chromium, on to Chrome and now (back) to Firefox, but the paperless office is still a pipe dream for me and most people. Printing from Firefox can be annoying. I don’t like seeing the title, URL, current time, etc in the headers and footers so I would change those settings each time. Since I don’t print that often I’d always forget to find out how to save those settings, until today. Turns out it’s quite easy, but it does require some tinkering with internal Firefox settings! In Firefox, type about:config. Search for print.print and list […]

C64

Retro Reading in 2019

You can be nostalgic about something for a lot longer than that thing was current. So it is with the Commodore 64, the Speccy and early computers in general. I had a rubber keyed Spectrum 48K for a couple of years followed by a C64 that I used every day for another 4 years or so and here we are in 2019 and I’m reading about those ancient computers. I’m not the only one. There are vibrant communities around both computers and it’s great to see! Somehow I can’t see myself feeling the same way about Windows 3.1, but I […]