Wednesday, August 30, 2006 Today I discovered that Sam, at work, is a geocacher. I was amazed that I had never heard of this activity before – the global GPS cache hunt. Its like a secret society of Boo Radleys who hide little treasure boxes throughout the world, and give, on the internet, the GPS co-ordinates for [...]
Or as some might say: “motherfucking 3 is a motherfucking pain”. Thats Three as in Ireland’s newest mobile network, the crowd with the ads of weird people on buses, and cherries that sing to Japanese kids (theres always someone in the cinema who laughs). Yesterday I signed up with them, don’t ask me [...]
For any Ubuntu Dapper users who didn’t see this… there was a dodgy version of xserver-xorg-core released yesterday which breaks your X server. The thread on Ubuntu forums is here. There will be a fixed version on synaptic soon, so you’ll save yourself some hassle by not apt-get-upgrading today.
As a stressed-out narrowbander I have always used Aertel on a daily basis due to the lack of images and bloat. Now they hog your bandwidth and embarrass you at work with these stupid loud video ads of old men singing that take up half the screen. Entirely defeats the purpose of using [...]
It was an eventful week in beautiful Cork St., Dublin. On Monday, an elderly neighbour of mine was found murdered in his apartment. Sounds like theres more to the story – “the retired traffic warden was convicted in 1998 of stalking and terrorising the parents of a four-year-old child”. The “parents of [...]
Via Sinéad, I have just become addicted to Library Thing. Its like a last.fm for books – catalogue all of your books, rate them, review them if you have time, and browse other catalogues. RSS feeds, tags, recommendations, and all that stuff included. My brand new account is here – so far [...]
A couple of interesting Linux-related tidbits from the mailing list today. Conor on ILUG linked to a very valuable wireless card database. I have been forced to use ndiswrapper on all four of my linux boxes that have wireless cards, since none of my randomly chosen wireless cards were natively supported.
Elsewhere, on the [...]
Wednesday, August 16, 2006 This will make no sense to any of you who don’t know what a “shock rifle” is. The staff behind Ireland’s UT2K4 gaming community has let the stress get to them. A new system has been introduced, claiming to “a benevolent dictatorship similar to the very effective situation at Boards.ie”.
For some people, [...]
Wednesday, August 16, 2006 I was examining the junk mails that made it through the spam filter yesterday, wondering about the lengths that spammers have to go to in order to dodge Spam Assassin, and how many people actually respond to advertisements for V!agr$Aa. One of the more common characteristics of spam emails is a variety of colours [...]
This is torture. I don’t often read detective/murder stories but, based on a very strong recommendation from my sister, I borrowed John Connolly’s first novel Every Dead Thing. At first glance, the internet nerd in me was disappointed to see that he, an Irish author, opted to register a johnconnolly.co.uk as opposed [...]