Monthly Archives: February 2003

Jeremy Zawodny’s blog: DBD::google oh wow!

I’ve been wanting an SQL interface to Google for so long. 🙂

mod_gzip has moved. I should have noticed, I’m on the mailing list, but then, it’s worked flawlessly for years so..

Going to war without the United Nations – it’s strange, when people whose blogs I read and like, post articles I find offensive and utterly disagreeable. The first comment on this article says it better than I can. I do think the United States will go to war, American planes will carpet bomb Bagdad, a few brave American/British/Australian soldiers will die but soldiers from the member states of the UN will be sent in afterwards on peace keeping missions risking their lives patrolling streets full of vengfull Arabs.
Robert Fisk: You wanted to believe him – but it was like something out of Beckett
More from the Independent on the Middle East.

inluminent on html email. – lots of links.

Friends Don’t Let Friends Use Camera Phones – especially not when drunk, they might drop the phone into a pint!

Irishman gets RSS.
So I came in this morning and loaded up my browser ready for another day at work. I remembered I had left AmphetaDesk running the previous night (sorry, should have killed it when I left the office!) so I loaded up the channel page and to my delight the weblogs that had been updated over-night appeared in all their glory! Any weblog that hadn’t been updated appeared “hidden” at the bottom of the page. I’ll still have to visit weblogs though, as not all blogs have rss feeds (this one included), some aren’t updated, and some I suspect don’t have the correct timestamp on them (but that might be a side-effect of adding non-updating rss feeds to AmphetaDesk. The added weblog appeared at the top of the page. This morning the same feed appears at the bottom!)
Hmm.. I might even relearn Perl to see if I can help develop this program!

Irish company allows bets on Saddam survival

After an email from the author of AmphetaDesk regarding my previous post on RSS readers for Linux. I took a look at AmphetaDesk again, and downloaded the latest release. Via the updates page there I found AmphetaOutlines, a small patch to make the AmphetaDesk UI a bit more sophisticated. Well done guys!