Head over to Irish Election for the latest updates as the votes are being tallied up. The site has really come into its own now, enhanced by technologies like twitter and mySay (allows you to phone up and leave a voicemail which will instantly be available on the web) which are made for times [...]
This is one way to pass the time on a long journey:
If you are sitting next to someone who irritates you on a plane or train…
1. Quietly and calmly open up your laptop case.
2. Remove your laptop.
3. Boot it.
4. Make sure the person who won’t leave you alone can see the screen.
5. Open your email [...]
Faustov has written up a nice Mencoder tutorial to help QuakeWorld players make movies in Linux. I don’t think I’ll be making any QW movies in the near future, but I’ll bookmark this anyway, since I always struggle even with the basics of Mencoder.
Zoe Conway’s website has been relaunched to complement her new album, the Horses Tail, which has been getting great reviews since it was released a few months back (including a nine out of ten from Hotpress). The album is for sale online, with some more samples on Zoë’s website. Note to all Americans: [...]
Conan visits Intel in Santa Clara. With the whole “copy exactly” philosophy, it’s almost identical to the Leixlip site – same chairs, same cubicles, same senior marketing manager in the client services group. The pain…
“First of all Don, I love what you guys have done with the colour here. I think the grey [...]
I installed the new plugin from Wordpress.com – a very nice addon. Slightly worried about what I’m seeing though, as the first hit to come through was a search referral for “Night Elves having Sex” and it got worse from there.
I went off to Africa to work in an orphanage and when I was leaving, this man came up to me and said “please take my son because if he stays here he will surely die, but if he goes home with you I know he’ll have a good life. And I didn’t take [...]
One of the best ways to hinder a cause is to promote it badly. I’ve just cringed through a bunch of videos on Blogorrah here and here urging young people to Rock the Vote. The idea is fair enough, and an initiative like Rock the Vote is an essential weapon in the [...]
Most people laugh cynically when I say that I am not a geek. I have never seen Battlestar Galactica, I’m no good at electronics, and I don’t even know where that “smoke me a kipper” quote comes from. They just retort with the cruel wisdom: “any true geek is in denial”. It [...]