Flash Cards for hsk level 3 Chinese
Written by John Moylan on Thu 26 December 2013 , Filed under : chinese
Anki Flashcards for Confucious Institute Level 3.
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Written by John Moylan on Fri 19 October 2012 , Filed under : IT
Yes, I realise that 50% of the entries on this blog are now about Pycon Ireland. But I have to tip my hat to the organisers, volunteers, speakers and attendees for another great conference. I have a written brief conference review for the RTE.ie Digital Tech blog...
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Written by John Moylan on Tue 10 July 2012 , Filed under : life
Let me start off with a personal admission. My name is John and I am a coffee addict. There, I have said it. That was easy enough. Everyone has their vice and mine just happens to be coffee. Not any old coffee though, mine has to be black and smooth, preferably espresso and made from the finest Arabica beans. I have been known to make do with other, less than perfect coffee's when push comes to shove. But after years of trying to go 'cold turkey' I have rationalised that maybe it's OK to embrace my addiction, and ...
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Written by John Moylan on Fri 09 December 2011 , Filed under : IT
Up until recently I had always used squid cache to reverse proxy my employers website. I'm a big fan of Squid and of reverse proxies in general because they are easy to scale out and they usually deliver much better response times for less buck than a standalone web server might. Squid is pretty good at what it does, it support a ton of protocols, has a good track record as far as security and stability are concerned and it is used by a lot of really of really big sites including Wikipedia and Flickr. But for the past ...
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Written by John Moylan on Wed 12 October 2011 , Filed under : IT
Pycon 2011 finished up on Sunday. Hats of to the committee and also the conference volunteers for their super organisation skills. They very obviously put a lot of time and effort into ensuring that everything would run like clockwork...
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