Archive For January, 2007
It appears that the Danes have been just a little too good at slowing down traffic by employing a new method of attracting the attention of speeding drivers to speed limit signs. Drivers are literally queuing up to watch the young beauties holding the signs. Oops. The following video might be viewed as NSFW so [...]
When you break up with your significant other you go through the motions of living your life, but in a daze. At some stage you need to let go and move on, no matter how hard it is. (from xkcd) PS. Congrats Elly on the move to WordPress! A pity this cartoon wasn’t published before [...]
(Later – Scroll to the end of this post for a small patch to fix the problem with disappearing tags!) As seen elsewhere and of course on the official blog, WordPress 2.1 was released to much fanfare yesterday. It works great, I’ve been using the development version on my blogs for quite a while now [...]
Something strange happened on Monday to my photoblog, In Photos.org. It disappeared off Google’s radar and traffic has dropped like a stone since.
Galaxy Radio’s Danny dumps the girlfriend of a guy who is about to propose to her when he finds out that she, eh, serviced her married boss at the Christmas party. It’s cruel, it’s awful, and the way she was dumped wasn’t too nice either but didn’t she deserve it? Did she deserve that? Did [...]
From the opening title sequence of the wool, the yoyo and the cut out paper men… To the magic door leading to the zoo… And then there’s Michael Finnegan, I wonder where he went? Yes, if you grew up in the eighties in Ireland then you’ll know all about Bosco. Aren’t we lucky?
Ever fancy your hand at building a C64 laptop? Here are some screenshots and ideas from someone who built a mini laptop from the parts of a C64 games joystick! I have one of those joysticks.. I wonder if I can do the same, but I think I’ll stick with Vice, the C64 emulator for [...]
Just goes to show what a hectic week it was last week. Despite it being on the front cover of the Business Section, I completely missed this Sunday Times interview with Mena and Ben Trott, the founders of Six Apart, makers of blog software Moveable Type, Vox, Typepad and owners of Livejournal. It’s a personable [...]
First spotted on the ILUG mailing list, it appears that a young 16 year old student has cracked the RSA encryption system and won 1st prize at the BT Young Scientist Competition 2007. If it’s true then Internet commerce could be in for a rough time, but some previous winners have proven to be less [...]
