Archive For May, 2003
As I won’t be updating this blog for a few days I thought I’d leave you with a little something special to keep you coming back! Feast your eyes on “The King Of Hearts”, Cork’s amazing new band, with Owen Kelly on lead guitar! I interrupted a photo shoot this afternoon, and snapped a few [...]
Right, so I have all my accounts in Euro in Gnucash. That’s now a problem since I’ll be spending US Dollars for the next 3 months, but I’ll be servicing loans and bills directly from my account in Euros. I created a “Cash in wallet – USD” account, with a default currency of USD. That [...]
Here’s a brief but excellent summary of the SCO vs Linux debacle, including speculation as to the ending.. (via Dave)
Getting travel insurance is a pain. It’s my own fault really as I didn’t go about getting it earlier. bah! It’s nigh on impossible to buy insurance from most travel shops in Cork. You have to have booked a flight/holiday with them as well. One shop was willing to sell me insurance, but then they [...]
Builds of Mozilla Firebird are available here, built with xft support for anti-aliased fonts. He has builds for RH8+9, Slackware 9, Debian Unstable, and Suse. Great!
Hmm, must make a “Travel” category. Thanks Darren for the following links, I’m putting them here as a reference when I’m stuck using a net cafe next week: Accommodation http://www.chicagoreader.com/ http://www.apartment.com/ Chicago Tribune Classifieds O’Hare Transportation CTA Busses Taxis Other Chicago Tourist Info. I’m travelling on Sunday, have a week to find an apartment. Looking [...]
BDKR has a rant here about OO in PHP. I agree with some of what he says. There’s lots of bad code and design out there (I can’t promise to be perfect either!) but that permeates functional and procedural programming too. I happen to like working with objects and structuring code in that way. It [...]
