March 2003 – Page 3 – Something Odd!

AmphetaFrames templates for AmphetaDesk

James Eaton mailed me a while back with this Amphetadesk mod, but I forgot to blog it at the time. It’s a decent mod of this rss news aggregator that adds frames to the reader interface. I have to confess I prefer Ampheta Outlines as I don’t have to click around to read the rss summaries and news. Usually when I get around to reading news, it’s while Xwrits is on and I want to relax for 5 minutes to give my hands a break from keyboard and mouse use.
A thread on ILUG reminded me to post all this for your convenience 🙂

I'm selling my car.. sob

I’m selling my car, it’s a sad day but my Alfa Romeo 147 is going on to another owner later on today. The 147 was the first car I really loved to drive. It’s solid on the road, very responsive 1.6lt engine, lots of features and very comfortable to drive.
The cost of living in Ireland has gone crazy in the last year. The cost of motor insurance has always been a problem for the Irish driver, and the Government squeezes more out of the Irish motorist than most other sectors of the economy through taxes.
She’s a beautiful car, and a joy to drive. If you’re thinking of buying, let me heartily recommend them.

SpamAssassin

Yet another release of SpamAssassin is out. Spam is definetly getting harder to track. I got one this afternoon that simply asked me to click on a url. How can you defend against that? Maybe the tmda folks have a point..

New b2-smarty release

Version 0.3 of b2-smarty is available for download now. This release includes all the new features talked about here and here and is considered a major upgrade!

An Interview With Mike Davidson of ESPN (Part 1)

Yes, yes, another one you’ve seen at Slashdot already but I’m keeping this interview as a useful reference!

xanadb.com

Homepage of another Corkonian, Walter Higgins.
I see Walter mentioned the Chavez film, “Inside the Coup”. I think he’s right, it’s not going to get aired much, and in the USA? Not a chance!
More at Google.

A PHP Application Installer

Wez is working on a generic PHP app installer which I’ll keep an eye on. I’m working on the same thing for b2 so we might be able to swap ideas around. Good luck! (via Simon)
UPDATE – The project has it’s own website now!

Jeremy Zawodny's blog: The Facts… Sort of.

I guess Jeremy never said it explicitly but I (and probably lots of others) assumed Yahoo Finance used MySQL in the delivery of data, but it’s only used in the back-office which is a lot different!
Where I work, Tradesignals.com, uses MySQL to store our market data and it’s obviously used to deliver data. Then again, the Futures stock market is a lot smaller than the range of data Yahoo offers. While I can’t reveal how much data we go through, American futures trading generate a lot of information!