Monthly Archives: November 2002

A Night of Shooting Stars – On November 18 to 19, Earth slams into two Leonid dust trails. The first was shed by Tempel-Tuttle in 1767, seven orbital revolutions ago. The second dates from 1866, four revolutions ago.

Meteors from the 1767 stream will peak around 04:00 Universal Time (UT) on November 19. To convert UT to EST, subtract 5 hours, changing the date if necessary. Subtract 6 hours for CST, and so on. This works out to 11 p.m. EST on the 18th.

So, I have to get up at 4am. I’m going to be a bit tired at work tomorrow!

dvd::rip works very nicely! I left it ripping a DVD overnight and came back to find a nice 700MB avi ready for burning onto CD!

A nightclub promotion, shagtag, was due to be held in Mayo but was banned by a District Judge. I tried searching for a news article about it but there’s very littel online except for one on unison.ie (linked above in the Google search) which requires registration. Here’s a realaudio interview with the promotion sponsor.

This is what all the fuss is about, the shagtag promotion is on at The Gasworks in Cork and these are pictures of fliers doing the rounds..

Very innocent I think you’ll agree…
(To avoid confusion if you’re not Irish or from the UK, here’s what shag means!)

The last time I bought a 56k modem, it used the V.90 standard but I’ve seen modems in shops that are advertised as supporting a new V.92 standard. Here’s a report on what V.92 actually is and includes a link to an updates page which was only updated a short while ago so it’s probably current.

Friends – so cute!

Basic design principles via Keith Devens

TCM Breaking News: Free Content – The Irish Examiner has RSS, Javascript and Java feeds!

Kylie unhappy with video’s bum deal – I saw her at the MTV Music Awards on TV last night. She may be unhappy with her bum deal but…