http://www.shaneland.co.uk The online home of Shane Martin Coughlan Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:26:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Yesterday I visited Ben's house to eat tiramisu. He's our intern at the FSFE Zurich office and has been taunting me with tales of wonder, delight and high calorie counts for weeks. On arrival I discovered that Ben's house is rather unusual. It appears to be a ... http://www.shaneland.co.uk/bens-tiramisu/ I've been in Düsseldorf for the last couple of days.  My previous experience of the city has been limited to the old town, Bilk and a bit of the river front, so this time I wandered further and made it to the Japanese section of the city. It's pretty small and ... http://www.shaneland.co.uk/japan-in-germany/ I recently met up with Adriaan in The Netherlands.  We drank beer, we played chess, we ate junk food.  We also talked about compiling KDE, geopolitical developments and international communication. As I was leaving, Adriaan entrusted me with two bran muffins he had baked.  Naturally I was suspicious of foul play, ... http://www.shaneland.co.uk/adriaans-muffins/ I'm interested in colours.  I'm also interested in Japan.  These two things came together when I started to play around with Wordpress themes. The basic idea: make a theme with traditional Japanese colours. The complex bit: try to ensure the theme is easy on the eye. I eventually settled on two colours.  The ... http://www.shaneland.co.uk/colours-from-japan/ In late 2006 I left Ireland (via the UK) and moved to Switzerland to run the legal affairs of Free Software Foundation Europe, a non-profit organisation that promotes freedom in technology.  My job includes all sorts of fun; networking, public speeches, negotiation, legal issue resolution and generally building cooperation between ... http://www.shaneland.co.uk/two-years-in-four-paragraphs/ Well, I'm back. *clapping* It's been two years since this site was active.  This is mainly due to being busy founding a pan-European legal network and other stuff like that. Quite a lot has happened and from tomorrow I'll play catch-up with this blog.  You can expect a mix of technology, ... http://www.shaneland.co.uk/hello-world/