The Establishment of the Rather Progressive 18th Century Hospital System in Ireland

Atten­ded a great talk provid­ing a over­view of the estab­lish­ment of the 18th Cen­tury Irish Hos­pital Sys­tem in Ire­land by Dr Susan Mul­laney (RAMI/UCC) at the Edward Worth Lib­rary @ Dr Steevens Hos­pital in Dub­lin. Mul­laney is ask­ing a basic ques­tion about the motiv­a­tion behind the 1765 Act for Ire­land call­ing for estab­lish­ment of county …

#tweetsmart by JS McDougall

#tweets­mart by Jesse McDou­gall adopts the premise that many people dis­miss twit­ter as idle chat­ter and can­not fathom why they would want to engage with it. Although I have encountered many col­leagues that per­son­ally are some­what dis­missive (and in many cases rightly so) I am not sure that busi­ness dis­misses it as read­ily and certainly …

The Linux Command Line by William E Shotts jr

The Linux Com­mand Line: A Com­plete Intro­duc­tion by Wil­liam Shotts jr is as com­plete as you might desire / ima­gine and deliv­ers much more than it prom­ises. This is simply the most fun, yet strik­ingly com­pre­hens­ive, intro­duc­tion to Linux that you could want. As the title states it focusses on inter­ac­tion via the Linux command …