Posts Tagged “General”

My home from space

If I were in the house buying market it just got a little easier to spy on the neighbours of your possible new home. My home.ie added a satellite mapping service to their site which allows one to zoom in closer than other online maps, although I don’t think you’ll be watching anyone skinny-dipping.. It’s [...]

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Strawberries in December

It’s a sign of the times. We eat fresh strawberries in the middle of winter. They may have travelled thousands of miles and be overpriced but there’s a ready market here for fresh fruit all year round. They are lovely in porridge first thing in the morning or even with Corn Flakes. They make the [...]

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I'll be there too

See you tomorrow at BarCamp Ireland! There’s going to be a big crowd and great speakers. Tom will be there and he has volunteered to speak twice. I won’t be talking, but come up to me and ask me about WordPress MU and wordpress.com, I’ll be the one wearing the WordPress tshirt! I see that [...]

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I want a free house

Cork student Shane Murphy is running iwantafreehouse.com and selling advertising on his homepage in €100 blocks. Unfortunately, it looks like the site is struggling under the load of a free plug on Today FM but I’m sure they’ll sort that out later. He’s also running a simple blog on there so be sure to check [...]

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Pluto, oh Pluto!

Not the cartoon character, but the ex-planet Pluto. Apparently it’s not classified as a planet any more!

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Photos From Space

APOD had two interesting photos over the last few days: APOD: 2005 November 14 – Everest Panorama from Mars – click on the image for a *huge* panorama! Lunation – animation of the moon over the course of a month. Jintle has a lot more space photos too!

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The Top Gear Survey 2005

If you were watching Top Gear tonight you no doubt took note of the Survey they released results for. They’re on the web but the lads in the studio didn’t have or couldn’t give out the URL. If you followed the suggest Google search, you’d have come across these two beauties: BBC – Top Gear [...]

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I want to – a page of utilities that help you do stuff you want to

I want to do X. Where can I find a website that does that?

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The 25 most difficult questions

The 25 most difficult questions you’ll be asked in a job interview.

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Tone it down, gurus

India Knight on gurus and the fascination the public has with them. Why do we think they know everything and what they say is correct? She cites Jo Frost, AKA Super Nanny as an example but I just saw one of her programmes, and it was scary how a two year old called Charlie controlled [...]

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