I wonder what Ryan Tubridy, a self proclaimed Beatles fan, will think of the Grey Album?
It’s a remix of the Beatles White Album and Jay-Z’s Black Album.
Somehow I think he’d be rolling in his proverbial grave if he heard about it! Personally, it’s not to my taste but I did find “99 Problems” entertaining! 🙂
Monthly Archives: February 2004
Irish Blogs
Hmm, here’s a slightly outdated list of Irish blogs. It’s missing all but one of the blogs hosted here, and my own blog is listed at the old site. Still, found an interesting blog by an American in Cork!
And here’s a blog that syndicates lots of Irish blogs, including this one!
Wow! Hailstone shower outside.. I am not going out to Blarney to put up that damn boundary fence tonight.
It's snowing!
Yay! It’s snowing outside! Woo! It snowed this morning too, and it was beautiful to look out onto the garden and see the flakes drop slowly to the grass.
Ireland’s weird that way. We go through a mostly mild and wet winter and snow falls in Spring!
Now I’m at work, despite the fact that I sit right next to a window, I found out from the Internet that it’s snowing right outside.. Thanks Christian for the heads up! *grin*
:)
That’s all Owen!
Resurrecting Dead Harddrives?
Ah yes, the old “freeze the drive” trick.. never tried that, but it’s one of the suggestions in this Slashdot discussion. May try to shake my dead disk later. *shrug*
CSS Debugger
This css debugger looks very useful to try and figure out what the hell’s happening on certain sites. Works fine in Moz FF, thanks to Scripty Goddess for the link.
Edit in 2024: updated links to archive.org links.
Pinguin, revised!
Ok, if you’re at all squemish this version of the Pinguin game may not be for you! It’s err, slightly cruel and horrific, but funny in a strange way..
Boat on the Lee
For the last few days I’ve noticed that the boat used by the workmen on Saturday was tied up in the middle of the river. This morning I stopped and took some photos of it, and played around with a few tools in the GIMP.
I’m sure I used them before, but the “Colour Enhance” tool and “Filter Pack” are very useful for adding a little more atmosphere and feeling to a photo.
The steeple reflected in the river is Holy Trinity Church on Father Mathew Quay. That church itself makes an imposing sight, especially when it’s lit up at night!
I uploaded the last photo above to photoSIG too although trying to attract the attention of visitors there is quite difficult as “boat on river” photos are two a penny there!
Forgot to say, I’m still very impressed by the Linux 2.6 kernel. I had 3 2560×1920 images open in the GIMP, and I had modified each several times so that the undo-buffer was filling up nicely. Under Linux 2.4 my machine would have been unusable, but Mozilla Firefox (with about a dozen tabs on 2 windows), Xchat and Thunderbird all remained responsive and none of them were swapped out! (The machine has 512MB of RAM, so Linux 2.6 doesn’t work miracles, it just handles resources much better!)
Eject!
Amazing image of an emergency ejection from a low flying plane. Be warned that it’s a huge 3008×1960 pixel image and you probably don’t want to download it if you’re only using a modem!
Clean the house!
Jeremy’s contemplating the purchase of a robotic vacuum cleaner called Roomba. I wonder if you can buy these things in Ireland? heh.
Looks like it’s not all there yet but it I’d love to give it a go. Anyone want to buy me a house warming present? 😉