Archive For April, 2008

Did Chinese soldiers really dress as monks in Tibet?

Pat sent me and I presume everyone he knows on Facebook this photo. The story is that Chinese soldiers dressed up as Tibetan monks and caused a riot at a rally. After a quick search it appears this is a photo taken on a movie set. This post has much more detail including the following: [...]

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Xenon 2 Megablast

Xenon 2 Megablast. If you know this game, you’ll know the soundtrack. This game by The Bitmap Brothers had great title music by “Bomb The Bass”. It was a shoot ‘em up released in 1989 although I didn’t play it until years later when I played it on the Atari ST and years later before [...]

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test 2

testing again!

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WordPress MU 1.5 RC1

The first release candidate of the new WordPress MU 1.5 has just been released. The obvious major change is the new admin interface and password salting introduced in WordPress 2.5, but apart from them many bugs have been fixed. There is also experimental support for CSS styles, something that has been missing from MU for [...]

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In The Name Of The Fada

You’ll already know about the Irish version of Jump Around by Des Bishop if you’re a regular reader here, but if you have missed previous episodes, please watch the last episode of “In The Name Of The Fada”. It’s on RTE 1 tonight at 10:15pm. Sky+ is set to record it here. We just watched [...]

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How to win an Apple Mac Air

Join Twitter. Follow @wubud. Tell your friends. @wubud (pronounced woo-bud) is where Paul Walsh will reveal his next venture. You may remember Paul from a previous post here about his qik adventures when he missed his flight home because he was talking to people on the Internet. He landed a bed in a penthouse suite [...]

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Geometry Wars Galaxies

First impressions of this much anticipated 2D shooter for the Nintendo Wii are not good. I played with the Wii remote and the nunchuck and from what I’ve just read on an Amazon review it’s much better with the classic controller. With the Wiimote and Nunchuck it sucks, you have a cursor on the screen [...]

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WP Super Cache 0.6.2

A few people stumbled across a strange bug in WP Super Cache. If your index.php was cached by the plugin then feeds or other pages that hadn’t been cached would show the front page! A simple way to fix this is by adding “index.php” to the list of rejected URIs, but then it won’t be [...]

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Mario Kart Wii

I blame Matt. If he hadn’t taken his Nintendo Wii to Stinson Beach last year I might never have known the delight of waving a remote control at random angles through the air. I jest of course. The Wii has had so much press that even I couldn’t not have become aware of it. Add [...]

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RateYourDoc.org

Who are the top 10 doctors at Sacred Heart: Dr. Jan Itor Dr. John Dorian Dr. Chris Turk Franklyn D Elliot Reid Nurse Espinosa Dr. Perry Cox Dr. Robert Kelso Dr. Todd Quinlan Dr. Doug Murphy Feel free to rate your favourite Scrubs doctor at rateyourdoc.org. There’s no way I’d vote for JD, I’d probably [...]

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Holy Shmoly! is Stephen Fry proof thanks to caching by WP Super Cache