Archive For May 19th, 2004

The Langer Song

You want to download the langer song? This is what some people in Cork sound like. Both ordinary and posh, and it’s available at thesraid.com, just scroll down a little to the “Langer” entry. Plenty of people looking for it! ‘Course I don’t sound like them! My accent’s mostly flat and foreigners can easily understand [...]

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*gulp*

I came across this photo of a bomb technician after listening to a radio interview with Graeme Goldsworthy, a deminer with International Demining Group so it gave me the creeps to think of the potentially dangerous scene the photographer captured!

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Keeping The Flat Clean: Living Space As User Interface

Should I put this under humour or house keeping? Or general, as I don’t have a house keeping category. I’ve just moved house, I haven’t had time to build up (much) clutter again. I’d comment more but Owen’s reading. Hey housemate!

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Understanding RAW Files. Light Dawns

Here’s a really good explanation of what RAW files are. Now I wish my camera could take raw shots more than ever as it would be extraordinarily handy to be able to adjust the white balance, and other settings after the fact. Of course, I think I’d be buying a new 120GB hardrive sooner rather [...]

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Search for "Jew"

I possibly need a “Search Engine” category. Hmm, especially if I put anything down about my SEO experiences! Anyhow, via the Google Blog comes an article explaining why anti-Semitic websites showed up in a search for the word Jew. In the interest of fairness, I also search for the words Christian, Muslim, Church of Ireland, [...]

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DomainKeys – encrypted and verified email

Now this looks very interesting – DomainKeys is a method for verifying email. It uses a public/private key infrastructure to verify the domain an email was sent from. Public keys are distributed by DNS. Yahoo! has been granted a patent on the framework which annoys some but their license terms seems rather liberal, even allowing [...]

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Oh! What a Night

Well, I’m off to the theatre again! I’m going to see Oh! What a Night tomorrow night and it looks like a great show! More on whazon.com and eventguide.ie.

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