Archive For January, 2004
This is so funny! Go read it and wait and see if SCO slashdots Slashdot! Much of the commentary on the SCO distributed denial of service scenario, including our own, has been based on the premise that SCO badly wants to keep their web site running. This may not be the case: unlike Microsoft, which [...]
Cube – This looks like an interesting game. It’s got some pretty screenshots and the blurb makes it look appealing. Cube is an open source multiplayer and singleplayer first person shooter game built on an entirely new and very unconventional engine. Cube is a landscape-style engine that pretends to be an indoor FPS engine, which [...]
Further to my previous post on this topic, Liam on #linux pointed me at this report. I really need to store my backup DVD-Rs standing up and in a dark place instead of having the jewel cases lying on an old PC in my room..
I switched on the radio this morning to hear Gerry Ryan mention the Irish Financial Services Regulatory Authority. He gave a phone number and the above URL saying they had published a guide to mortgages. Obviously I had just missed a conversation on mortgages but at least I found the guide available as a 122kb [...]
So I finally managed to get the “Nokia Suite” software working in Windows (it doesn’t seem to like an almost fully patched WinXP!) and I have my phone backed up over Bluetooth. Now, how do I go about deleting 827 texts? I could go through them and pick out the ones from the ex but [...]
Rushing Somewhere Taken from the flyover by Silver Springs on Thursday night. I’m sure that drivers thought I was a speed cop with my camera mounted on the tripod pointing at traffic! Certainly, many of them were doing well over the advertised 30mph limit on that stretch of road. The ESB transformer substations, Marina, Cork. [...]
Zimran has an interesting but brief analysis of the housing market in Boston. The linked article has more, including this nugget: … shortly after 2010, housing prices in most currently hot markets are going to fall off a cliff, as boomers downsize. I don’t expect that to happen here in Ireland at least. Has it [...]
Right lads, I need to get busy as I’ve still got a few things to do from this list in the next 2 years! Who’s on for a parachute jump? lol. (via Owen) Too late! I’m 31 now. Doh! But life couldn’t be better!
Amazing action shot from a rugby match in Ulster. Whatever about the guy leaping through the air, I love the expression on the opposing team player on the ground!
