Archive For January 6th, 2005

The Dundalk Blog

DERMOT AHERN DUNDALK IRELAND – Not much on there now but apparently this blog “named and shamed” drug dealers and criminals in Dundalk and surrounding areas. They’ve taken down all the interesting slanderous bits, but it was fairly irresponsible to put it online in the first place anyway! You might be able to find some [...]

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Sky charges for repairs to non-faulty digiboxes

There I was going to subscribe to Sky+ and this story comes along. Does this bug still exist? Is it on new boxes? British Sky Broadcasting has denied accusations that the company tried to profit from a known software fault in its digital video recorders, after customers were charged £65 for engineers to visit their [...]

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WPMU Update – mod_rewrite fix for digits in URLs

Here’s a small fix to fix a big mod_rewrite rules bug. URLs like this, http://blogs.linux.ie/xeer/2005/01/06/2004-indian-ocean-earthquake-wikipedia/, won’t load properly as mod_rewrite gets confused between the date of the post and the year in the title. Here’s a quick fix: Open the .htaccess file in your root directory and replace each occurance of ^(.*) with ^([_0-9a-z-]+) Thanks [...]

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gometric.ie :: Countdown to Metric speed limits

gometric.ie is the Irish Government’s site to inform the public that speed signs will be going metric on January 20th! It’s accompanied by a mailing campaign and advertising on radio and television so hopefully the message will get through to everyone! “Ugh! Yeah officer, I saw the sign. It says 50mph in this area.” From [...]

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2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami- Wikipedia

Here’s the Wikipedia entry for the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake including links to blogs and sites with footage and first person commentary. I just watched a video of the wave hitting in Patong Beach and it’s scary – the water just kept on coming and coming until cars floated down the street…

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