Archive For May 18th, 2004

Right click – interesting site?

I open all my links in new tabs usually, but sometimes my mouse scrolls the page when I hit middle-mouse-button, and I get some completely different website .. Here’s one I discovered earlier. Looks interesting.

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Bill Biggart's Final Moments

It was two weeks after two jetliners had plowed into the towers of the World Trade Center. His good friend, photojournalist Bill Biggart’s body had been recovered from the rubble. His personal effects, including his cameras had been released by authorities to his widow, Wendy. Some of his images are amazing and all the more [...]

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SAP – Seymour Hersh

I heard this discussed on the radio on the way to work this morning and promptly forgot about it. Must read it at home tonight! The roots of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal lie not in the criminal inclinations of a few Army reservists but in a decision, approved last year by Secretary of Defense [...]

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Experiences of Using PHP in Large Websites

Disclaimer – I haven’t read this yet, I’m heading out the door and home to make myself some dinner! I see that this paper is from 2002 but when the author recommended using Perl I had to link this and read it later! Cracked me up. hehe. … few languages are as bad as PHP [...]

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Fedora Core 2 – May 18th Release?

Today is the day when Fedora Core 2 is released. The Irish mirrors I’ve tried have the “2″ directory but they’re off-limits right now. Thankfully the official Bittorrent for Fedora is alive and I’m getting reasonable download speeds! Anyone got reviews of the release? Later… Yay! mirrors are up and running!

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Brand Conscious Camera Owner?

For those of you who think brand is more important than function, this Ferrari branded camera is just what you’ve been looking for! In “stylish” Ferrari red with the same logo plastered all over it you can’t help but be noticed by fellow tourists and passers-by as you raise your camera to snap a few [...]

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B2++ 0.8.1 out!

Although it’s a minor update, the latest release of b2++ should be installed by everyone running b2++. I have provided a very simple upgrade package as well with only the changed files so you’ve no excuse not to upgrade! Check the download page for links! Changes: Referer display of Google and Yahoo queries nicer. Cosmetic [...]

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