Category Archives: The Future

My new Clevo W240EUQ Laptop from PC Specialists

Posted on September 2, 2012 by Branedy

This is the Laptop I have moved to. No longer a Mac user, never more than a PC user and never a Windows fan. I’m now entirely into my custom built Clevo W244EUQ laptop, built to my configuration by PC … Continue reading →

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Skype security, and privacy

Posted on July 28, 2012 by Branedy

Communications and privacy will always be a concern, any protocol a computer can generate can be broken, the question is how long, and how important. If your ego about your importance in the world is justified by others, then expect … Continue reading →

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The real problem with a ‘Silicon Republic’ for Ireland

Posted on July 15, 2012 by Branedy

If Cork, and probably Ireland in general, ever wants to get a leg up on Silicon Valley, or ANY tech center, they will have to get the local booksellers to start carrying books on the subject. YES! I do know … Continue reading →

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The very first Higgs Boson

Posted on July 4, 2012 by Branedy

Yup! The first of many Higgs Boson’s, just like the early Greeks predicted, particles within particles within particles ad infinitude.

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Predictions for the New Year

Posted on December 23, 2011 by Branedy

While the wife is trying to formulate a final post on her blog to end the year. I thought I’d take a different tack so here are my predictions for next year. 1) The World as we know it, will … Continue reading →

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The Banking Crisis is Our Fault!

Posted on August 4, 2011 by Branedy

I heard all the arguments, and if I were in a position to actually have made the decisions, or been allowed to tender an opinion on the actions taken. I know I would have made different choices. But in the … Continue reading →

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Kindle as the fire of Fahrenheit 451

Posted on May 29, 2011 by Branedy

In the science fiction book Fahrenheit 451 I often wondered what the catalyst was. In the current age, that has become apparent, control, with government leaders demanding ‘controls’ over the Internet, and most other communications media the books presented in … Continue reading →

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Putting touch feel back into touch screens at SRI

Posted on March 6, 2011 by Branedy

Watch this video on an new feedback element developed at SRI (watch from 2:50 minutes ). More SRI stories at TechCrunch PS: I used to work at SRI, an amazing place to work.

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The 71 Fianna Fáil Royals, does not Democracy Make.

Posted on January 17, 2011 by Branedy

The 71 Fianna Fáil Party Royalty who are being allowed to decide on the issue of wither we remove a Corrupt and disgraceful Taoiseach, Brian Cowen is not a Democracy. It only represents the swaggering elitist thugs that have manhandled … Continue reading →

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Apprenticeships for the unemployed

Posted on November 26, 2010 by Branedy

The future of Irish unemployment, or for that matter, unemployment anywhere, may involve re-establishing a medieval apprenticeship, where students, or other unemployed IT/Scientific/Technical workers live with those in the same industry who ARE working, and learn the business from them, … Continue reading →

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Hi, I’m Tea-Partier

Posted on October 31, 2010 by Branedy
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Real Democracy for the Tea Party.

Posted on September 25, 2010 by Branedy

Before the last big election in the U.S.A. I managed to get on to a great deal of political Email lists, as I’m sure many of you did. And while they all managed to end up in the Junk email … Continue reading →

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Underground War – Whistle Blowers strike back.

Posted on August 29, 2010 by Branedy

I may be the last to see this, a war, underground and undeclared, but a war. The opponents are a bit undefined but there is a clear and escalating combat in the world. I’m not talking about Terrorists, (although the … Continue reading →

Posted in Conspiracies, corruption, Crime, Democracy, Economy, Education, Freedom, government, Honesty, Information, Internet, Law, Lies, monopolies, Myths, Politics, Press, Religion, Science, Social Networks, Terrorism, The Future, Truth, World Events | Tagged , , | 1 Comment

I’m truly afraid for the United States

Posted on July 21, 2010 by Branedy

I’m truly afraid for the United States, and I’ll tell you why, when Consumers are more satisfied with Fox News sites than newspapers or any other News Services for that matter, it boggles the mind. I can’t imagine, the only … Continue reading →

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More Pseudoscience in the Press

Posted on July 18, 2010 by Branedy

This video at the BBC U.S. Site that claims Technology ‘rewires’ our brains Is yet another Pseudoscience attempt to baffle with Bullshit, the viewer. It comes off all Super Tech and is really no better than claiming that “Technology destroys … Continue reading →

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