Monthly Archives: March 2002

My Ergonomic Nightmare – This appeared several days ago but my hands are sore right now so I want to link to it.

There’s some really excellent articles linked from Poochkiss.

Hunt the Boeing! And test your perceptions! – As everyone knows, on 11 September, less than an hour after the attack on the World Trade Centre, an airplane collided with the Pentagon. The Associated Press first reported that a booby-trapped truck had caused the explosion. The Pentagon quickly denied this. The official US government version of events still holds. Here’s a little game for you: Take a look at these photographs and try to find evidence to corroborate the official version. It’s up to you to Hunt the Boeing! (Thanks Gearoid for the link)

Beckhams in crash – but thankfully escaped injury.

Petrol prices in the stations I pass every morning didn’t change for the first 2 months of this year, they were 77.9c/lt, now they’re inching up. Two stations added 0.6c and another added over 1c to the price.

Eircell became Vodafone last week.

Plastic bags in supermarkets and shops cost 15c now. Smaller bags are exempt. I went to Supervalu yesterday and bought some oranges. Everyone had/was buying tougher looking glossy bags and I passed one woman bringing her bag with her as she entered the shop. Better get used to it!

And one of those blogs is Rogi – nice one from the side of a volcano! It’s also nice to see someone blogging who’s from this side of the world, although, as he says himself, “. . . he found himself based on the sub-tropical Azores Islands out in the middle of the Atlantic.”

I read about Chu Mei on a blog. She’s the top search criteria on daypop now! Results return some interesting blogs!

EMC seeking 160 job cuts in Cork – I know several people working there.

I agree, this is the best domain of any government agency ever!

I bought one of those universal remote controls on Saturday and promptly broke it when I tried to upgrade it via the web. It’s a One For All model and thankfully they had a support line I could ring from Ireland. I rang them this morning and I’m amazed. Customer service was excellent! They were polite, talked me through reseting the remote (fixed it:) and then suggested codes to try and get my DVD player working with it (rebadged Scan model), but to no avail. I even managed to upgrade the remote twice over the phone which was impressive!
Finally, they suggested I send them scans of what the remote looks like so I’ll email them shortly, and hopefully someone there will recognise the player. I think I’ll email Scan too. Stay tuned!

mod_gzip for Apache works. It works so well in fact that I’ve been using it for about a year now. What it lacks though is documentation. I had just upgraded Apache and PHP on a server and I had forgotten how to install mod_gzip. Their webpage doesn’t have any obvious INSTALL docs, which is why I wrote a mod_gzip install essay ages ago. I’m glad I did now.
Whatever I did, Apache seems to be running a lot faster now!