Archive For December, 2007
We’ve been busy calling to relatives and making our home baby proof over the last week, so we went down to Kinsale and Garrettstown this afternoon to get away from it all. Even though there was a strong cold wind blowing in off the sea Garrettstown Beach wasn’t deserted. People were out and about walking [...]
Those with a long memory may recall my do not delay post from November 2006. In it I exposed a fake charity that collected clothes at people’s homes and then sold them for profit, without a penny going to a legitimate charity. Because they’ve pissed me off so much, I’ve set up a new site [...]
The Irish Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, Sunday Times, Dec. 23 2007 I really would love to know how the Minister for Finance survived so many years without a bank account. Linkies .. Photo Phlow presents your Flickr stream in a new Flash interface. Cute. Here’s my stream there. GIMP FX repository is now up to 90 [...]
A year ago I pondered buying a Sony Ericsson K750i but eventually bought it’s big brother, the Sony Ericsson W810i instead. At the time I was impressed, especially with the panorama function of the camera, but I’ve grown to loath this piece of technology in the year since I bought it. Here’s why. “Message waiting, [...]
Build High PR Backlinks On Demand Free PDF Reveals All. Download Now! Google Adsense Advert spotted on iwebtool.com The best Irish horror movie? The Irish dickheads of the year 2007 as picked by Twenty Major. Hard to fault that list. Mind mapping for new blog post ideas. Someone stumbled upon my CFMB tag when they [...]
The Facebook “Friend Confirmation” page always unsettles me. I have never met some of the people who send me a friend request. Sometimes I don’t recall those I have met or bumped into at a conference. I knew a small minority before the whole “Internet” thing took off. Of the rest, I read their blogs [...]
What is the significance of “20f1aeb7819d7858684c898d1e98c1bb”? It’s the MD5 hash of the name “Anthony” and was the password used by someone who broke into lightbluetouchpaper.org. Searching for the md5 hash was clever, but it won’t work for long because Ryan is working on securing the WordPress cookies and passwords. In case you’re wondering, the hacker [...]
Do you ever wonder what pages your regular visitors look at? Do they dig deep into your blog exploring old posts or do they sit in their feed reader and only read your latest posts? By using my Blog Voyeur plugin you can find out. This is the first release of the plugin. It appears [...]
The number of blogs on WordPress.com passed 2 million late last night. I think that’s just amazing and wonderful! Links … Frank asks for the facts behind the cocaine deaths in Ireland recently. I wondered what the odds of dying from cocaine are. Is it really as low as between 0.1% and 1%? How does [...]
