Today’s Thoughts
May 9th, 2006
Slashdot’s coverage of the Oblivion saga continues. Some lawyer named Jack reckons that “the game content will spawn ‘an even worse disaster’ than occurred during Hot Coffee”.
Just to recap on Grand Theft Auto’s mod, Hot Coffee - from Wikipedia:
When installed, it unlocks a hidden part of the game which involves having sex (featuring oral sex with an “invisible” penis and dry humping) with the main character’s girlfriend to try to improve the relationship between the two.
The Oblivion mod, on the otherhand, unlocks this:
Does anyone think that is worse than GTA’s Hot Coffee mod? I think that Jack Thompson preys on the cluelessness of American parents in order to make a name for himself. This Oblivion issue has been blown way out of proportion, but Jack Thompson wants people to believe that World War III has started and he is the only guy who can save us from the enemy. Jack: this is not going to make you a guest on Oprah. Silence you furry fool. You’re finished here, you understand?
The DaVinci Code hype has gone beyond a joke.
I went to see American Dreamz yesterday, the American Idol parody. Such an easy target, but this was a weak effort. The early rounds of the real American Idol are infinitely more funny (see William Hung). However, Hugh Grant is no longer the most annoying guy on Earth, he’s actually not too bad (please don’t kill me).
From ClanBase - news of a major security flaw in the six year old Quake 3 engine:
Today, on milw0rm.com, a hacker nicknamed Landser has released a hack that exploits a serious leak in games based on the Quake 3 Engine. It grants hackers full access to take over your computer.
Technically, the leak creates a unsuspicious “boundary error” when sending malformed messages from the gameserver to a client during the remapShader process. Once a buffer overflow occurs, the computer is fully exposed to any type of activities.
This also affects Enemy Territory, and Return to Castle Wolfenstein, and any other games running the Quake 3 engine. The patch is out, but PunkBuster anti-cheat program is slowing things down, so you if you plan on playing league games this week, don’t upgrade just yet.
In other news, the Swedish Quake legend Blue is back dueling in the Eurocup after five years absence. Will be interesting to see how he does in Quake 4
Soccer - Ireland’s squad was announced for the training camp in Portugal and upcoming friendly vs Chile. Great to see Steve Staunton building a team for the future, with many young faces in the side including the 17 year old Terry Dixon from Spurs. A big surprise to me was the inclusion of Shelbourne’s Jason Byrne. In the past, I have always campaigned for the managers to look to the Eircom League, and in particular to the likes of Jason Byrne, when we had no options (other than David Connolly) up front.
However, at the moment our strikers are better than I can ever remember, with Robbie Keane in flying form at Spurs, Stephen Elliot looking very lively for Ireland last season, and Kevin Doyle named Fan’s Player of the Year at Reading, making the team of the championship, and spawning a 58-page thread of appreciation on the Royal’s forum in the process. Thats not to mention Clinton, who has often done well for us.
Since Jayo’s inclusion is obviously just a token, why not give Georgie a few minutes to dazzle the palta-eaters over in Chile? 
Still, at least theres good news for one Cork City player, as Denis Behan has been called up into the U-21 side to play Azerbaijan.
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June 4th, 2007 at 0:25 am
i need software that can help me to see the hidden sex part of oblivion
November 21st, 2007 at 17:27 pm
Dear Mr. Galvin,
My grandmother’s name was Galvin, her parents came to the US in the 1800’s sometime. My grandmother had a twin sister and her mother was found dead with the two babies in the cradle. The father was a drunk and no one knows what happened to him. I have been told since i was a small child that my grandmother (Lillian Galvin-Jacob) and her twin sister (Mary Galvin) were left a castle and 200,000 (1940’s - 1950) by the time they found my grandmother it is said it was too late and everything was returned to Ireland. I would like to know more…could you tell me if there is a castle in the galvin line?
Thank you,
Lili Hyatt