Monthly Archives: February 2002

Hostel alarms were switched off by managers before blaze – An Irish woman was killed in that fire.

There’s been a spate of “car jackings” in the UK recently. Window film offers carjack defence says RAC

Brits round-up including some photos of the stars!

AA men take stranded driver to dying mother – They took him 320 miles! That’s customer service for you!

Woman’s car stolen as she chased mugger – Just when you thought your day couldn’t get worse 🙁

Microsoft music and movie player collects data on users – There’s also a posting to bugtraq and a link to a Microsoft response.

Webword links:
Does karma really exist? A news survey says it does!

One reviewers’ experiences reading 4,934 Pages of Franzen as an E-Book. “I found most of the typical complaints about reading e-books–that they’re hard to see, not tactile enough, impersonal, an eye strain–to be moot. I have been wearing glasses since I was five and my vision is now certifiably terrible (it’s corrected by nine diopters), so I would be particularly sensitive to any difficulties seeing the screen. But I had none.”

Wal-Mart trumps Moore’s law – “Today’s economic reality is that high-tech decisions made in Arkansas play a larger role in boosting America’s productivity than decisions made in Silicon Valley or Seattle.”

An issue that every man has to think about, Razor blades, and how much it costs to replace them!
I recall a comedian commenting that the big razor companies spent years developing a secret new razor blade, one that would be revolutionary, and they did! They added a second blade! wow! Soon after they amazed us again, this time with a razor with 3 blades!
Now I think that blades don’t last as long, and with 3 blades in each razor-head they’re more expensive. *sigh*

The Rise of Complex Terrorism was just linked from Dangerous Meta but I had read this article a few days ago and then lost the URL. Thank you Garret for linking to it!

Tips on using email. Unfortunately I know too many people that should know, but don’t, how to use email properly.

Remember Nebulas on your old 8 or 16 bit computer? I played this a bit on the C64. Here’s a Linux conversion called Tower Toppler!

Last weekend a young guy was attacked in Cork and is now in hospital fighting for his life. There’s been lots of talk on the radio and newspapers about how dangerous the streets are getting. It’s scary.

Rox rocks! It’s very fast and simple to use. KDE looks nicer but on my machine using it is like treacle.

Woo, I’ve built a class that’ll allow me to call my PHP classes on remote servers. It’s something like XML-RPC but a lot simpler and only of use with my own code. It’s going to be handy for a number of projects I have coming up though!

There’s going to be a referendum on abortion here in Ireland in a few weeks time and the posters have already started to appear on lamp posts.
Unfortunately, they all seem to say the same thing:
“Vote for the lives of women and unborn children, vote YES!”
“Vote for the lives of women and unborn children, vote NO!”

It’s rather confusing. AFAIK, if the vote goes one way, the right for a woman to have an abortion will be put into the constitution, otherwise, women will have to go to the courts to get an abortion.
The taoiseach is refusing to debate the issue with other party leaders, and he appears to be running scared if comentators are to be believed! Fine Gael are pulling all the stops out on this, oh, and it happens to be an election year too! Fancy that eh?

Here’s one of the groups campaigning: Pro life