As a long-suffering ISDNer, I have always been paranoid about my background bandwidth usage. I passionately hated SETI@HOME, RealPlayer, Quicktime, and all those other programs that went looking for updates without asking. When your maximum rate in a multiplayer game is 7200, every .2k/s counts. I have finally decided that Last.fm is worth it. Was [...]
Following the unprecedented success of World of Warcraft (6 million players forking out $14 per month?), we will be hearing a lot this year from the mmorpg industry by way of new releases, etc. Foremost among these must surely be Warhammer Online, by the makers of Dark Age of Camelot. Its not due for release [...]
Thought we had a great run built for the dog, but turns out shes scaling the pallets like a ladder and tumbling out over the top. She’ll only do it once you’re out of sight, so it took awhile to discover how she was escaping:
Little Island. Thursday, 13:10. My last day working for Nova Networks. Starving. Eagerly, I order the “all you-can-eat buffet”. Excitement building as I approach the buffet counter… with a conscious effort I remain cool. Until my eyes greedily zone in on the lavish feast: Disaster. I wait for the moment of panic to pass, and [...]
Wednesday, April 12, 2006 “His eyes were like steel; cold, hard. Had a shock of hair… red like the fires of Hell.” Perhaps it was a very slow news day that prompted extensive coverage on an unusually large rabbit that is terrorising the countryside in Northumberland, England. Allegedly, sharpshooters have been hired to combat the threat to lettuces in [...]
Heres an exclusive via Steven in Skibbereen: some time in the next hour or so, the Church Restaurant will be a smouldering heap. The Church attracted some interest when it opened a couple of years ago, by the well known owner of Currans on Adelaide Street in Cork. Currans is a restaurant with a twist, [...]
Don’t be ridiculous, it will never get old! Anyone who plays Oblivion should enjoy this one.
Remember those golden boxes with question marks on them in Super Mario… the ones that you used to bump with your head in order to get a mushroom or a flower? Qwantz.com gives detailed instructions on how to make real life replicas of these boxes, in an effort to inspire art projects and “bring a [...]
I was in Wired to the World MacCurtain Street yesterday – the biggest netcafe & callcenter in Ireland, they claim. I sat down at the first computer, and started looking for the mouse… with no success. Slightly confused, I asked the guy next to me and he showed me how to power it on. It [...]
Firearms, angry mobs, and false imprisonment… this may sound like your average Saturday night in Dunmanway, but theres a nasty twist to this particular Wesht Cark tale. Not since the days of Michael Collins has there been such tension among neighbours down this direction. Thankfully, the Gardaí have clamped down by introducing extreme measures such [...]