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Monthly Archives: April 2013

Web site hosting disappointments

Web-hosting companies promise a lot, and sometimes charge a lot. You may think that you’re putting your site on a powerful server with excellent bandwidth and performance. It may appear to be so until you get some serious traffic to your site. The Irish ISP and hosting company Digiweb just proved that they cannot deliver what they promise. Just when we needed the to be there, Digiweb failed miserably. For two days in a row, their servers DoS, keel over, etc., when our users, try to access our site. Shame on you Digiweb. It’s time to consider another hosting solution.

Even the light fantastic is late this spring

Today, while running around the UL campus for final year project demonstrations, the light fantastic stopped me in the stairwell. Last year, I saw it the 6th of March. Seeing a full spectrum slowly moving across a floor or a wall, and trying to figure out where the perfect angles and refractory indices are (in this case a window in the UL’s Engineering Research Building) still fascinates me.

light fantastic rainbow spectrum

Let’s hope the sunshine continues and that spring eventually decides to stay.