Eamonn O'Brien-Strain

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date: '2006-10-12 15:45:28' layout: post slug: eclipse-downloads-home status: publish ref: http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/ title: Eclipse downloads home wordpress_id: '114' categories: Programming


Next I went to the Eclipse downloads home to get the next vital piece of Java development kit. I just extracted the Linux archive file into a subdirectory of my home directory, navigated into that folder and executed it. It started up right away using the 1.4.2 GCJ Java SDK that comes with Ubuntu.

The next thing I added to Eclipse was subversion support. First I went to Window->Preferences->Install/Update in Eclipse to add the HTTP proxy for my corporate firewall. Then I followed the subeclipse instructions for downlading and installing from within Eclipse.

I also need CVS for some projects but for some reason I could not get that to work from within Eclipse even after I had installed the system CVS from the Ubuntu installer. So in the end I used the command-line CVS to check out my module and din an Import from within Eclipse to read it in.

I used Windows->Preferences->Java-Installed JREs to add my newly installed Sun JDK 1.5. Then I set the Java compiler level to 5.0 so that my code would compile OK.


date: '2006-10-11 15:31:24' layout: post slug: wp-cache-and-the-blank-page-problem-at-blogging-blog status: publish ref: https://web.archive.org/web/20061027164106/http://www.bloggingblog.net/wp-cache-and-the-blank-page-problem/ title: WP-Cache and the Blank Page problem at Blogging Blog wordpress_id: '110' categories: Programming


WP-Cache and the Blank Page problem at Blogging Blog

I was running into this problem as I attempted to speed up this blog using WP-Cache. The fix described here worked like a charm.


date: '2006-09-07 14:29:00' layout: post slug: draft-of-brochure-for-enchanted-hills-house status: publish ref: http://107starlite.com/brochure.html title: Draft of brochure for Enchanted Hills house wordpress_id: '103' categories: Personal


Well, we now have a draft of the brochure offering our house for sale.


date: '2006-08-30 13:44:00' layout: post slug: our-house-is-going-on-the-market-soon status: publish ref: http://107starlite.com/ title: Our house is going on the market soon wordpress_id: '102' categories: Personal


Our house will be going on the market just after Labor Day.


date: '2006-06-18 11:55:00' layout: post slug: police-sting status: publish ref: https://web.archive.org/web/20071010163013/http://www.skew-t.com/?id=20060510191903 title: Police Sting wordpress_id: '101' categories: SF


San Francisco's Finest are making sure drivers stop for pedestrians.technorati tags:San Francisco


date: '2006-06-13 08:45:00' layout: post slug: guerrilla-urban-micro-park status: publish ref: https://web.archive.org/web/20101010030237/http://www.rebargroup.org/projects/parking/ title: Guerrilla Urban Micro Park wordpress_id: '100' categories: SF


You too can unfurl some turf and create a suprisingly congenial small park in an urban parking space.


date: '2006-06-12 05:21:00' layout: post slug: photo-illustrated-tree-of-life-flickrtol-mash-up status: publish ref: http://eamonn.org/ title: Photo-Illustrated Tree of Life (Flickr/TOL Mash-Up) wordpress_id: '99' categories: Science


I have created a depiction of the evolutionary tree of life on Earth that is a simple mash-up of Flickr and the Tree of Life web project. It displays photos that have been taxonomically tagged.


date: '2006-05-11 20:05:00' layout: post slug: blood-sacrifice-the-left-and-the-1916-insurrection-in-ireland-ireland-britain-history status: publish ref: http://www.anarkismo.net/newswire.php?story_id=2937 title: Blood sacrifice, the left and the 1916 insurrection in Ireland – Ireland / Britain History wordpress_id: '97' categories: Ireland


This anarchist analysis of the 1916 rising and the Irish War of Independence has some interesting points of view that I had not heard before. The author claims for example that the reason that the British agreed to come to terms with Sinn Fein is that they were terrified of much more radical left-wing movements in Ireland and Britain.

Filed in: ireland 1916 [](http://www.flickr.com/photos/eob/tags/)


date: '2006-05-10 18:47:00' layout: post slug: google-trends-irish status: publish ref: http://www.google.com/trends/viz?q=irish&date=all&geo=all&graph=weekly_img title: 'Google Trends: irish' wordpress_id: '96' categories: Ireland


This is the Google Trends graph for the search term “irish”. Note the big peak every year on St. Patrick's day.

Filed in: ireland google

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Update 2019-09-14: The above images do not render anymore. So here is the latest:


date: '2006-05-08 16:27:00' layout: post slug: in-memory-of-david status: publish ref: http://www.acsevents.org/relay/ca/campbell/eobrain?faf=1&e=597762986 title: In Memory of David wordpress_id: '95' categories: Personal


In memory of a friend, David, who died of cancer last year at a tragic young age I am helping to raise money for the Cancer Society. If you can, please donate.