Archive For February, 2004

The Grey Album.. What would Tubridy think?

I wonder what Ryan Tubridy, a self proclaimed Beatles fan, will think of the Grey Album? It’s a remix of the Beatles White Album and Jay-Z’s Black Album. Somehow I think he’d be rolling in his proverbial grave if he heard about it! Personally, it’s not to my taste but I did find “99 Problems” [...]

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Irish Blogs

Hmm, here’s a slightly outdated list of Irish blogs. It’s missing all but one of the blogs hosted here, and my own blog is listed at the old site. Still, found an interesting blog by an American in Cork! And here’s a blog that syndicates lots of Irish blogs, including this one! Wow! Hailstone shower [...]

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It's snowing!

Yay! It’s snowing outside! Woo! It snowed this morning too, and it was beautiful to look out onto the garden and see the flakes drop slowly to the grass. Ireland’s weird that way. We go through a mostly mild and wet winter and snow falls in Spring! Now I’m at work, despite the fact that [...]

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That’s all Owen!

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Resurrecting Dead Harddrives?

Ah yes, the old “freeze the drive” trick.. never tried that, but it’s one of the suggestions in this Slashdot discussion. May try to shake my dead disk later. *shrug*

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CSS Debugger

This css debugger looks very useful to try and figure out what the hell’s happening on certain sites. Works fine in Moz FF, thanks to Scripty Goddess for the link.

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Pinguin, revised!

Ok, if you’re at all squemish this version of the Pinguin game may not be for you! It’s err, slightly cruel and horrific, but funny in a strange way..

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Boat on the Lee

For the last few days I’ve noticed that the boat used by the workmen on Saturday was tied up in the middle of the river. This morning I stopped and took some photos of it, and played around with a few tools in the GIMP. I’m sure I used them before, but the “Colour Enhance” [...]

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Eject!

Amazing image of an emergency ejection from a low flying plane. Be warned that it’s a huge 3008×1960 pixel image and you probably don’t want to download it if you’re only using a modem!

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Clean the house!

Jeremy’s contemplating the purchase of a robotic vacuum cleaner called Roomba. I wonder if you can buy these things in Ireland? heh. Looks like it’s not all there yet but it I’d love to give it a go. Anyone want to buy me a house warming present?

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