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How to dump a cheating girlfriend
Galaxy Radio’s Danny dumps the girlfriend of a guy who is about to propose to her when he finds out that she, eh, serviced her married boss at the Christmas party.
It’s cruel, it’s awful, and the way she was dumped wasn’t too nice either but didn’t she deserve it?
Did she deserve that? Did they go too far? Have you got any similar breakup stories? (via)
Too much Bosco to handle
From the opening title sequence of the wool, the yoyo and the cut out paper men…
To the magic door leading to the zoo…
And then there’s Michael Finnegan, I wonder where he went?
Yes, if you grew up in the eighties in Ireland then you’ll know all about Bosco. Aren’t we lucky?
Picodore 64: Your DIY Commodore 64
Ever fancy your hand at building a C64 laptop? Here are some screenshots and ideas from someone who built a mini laptop from the parts of a C64 games joystick!
I have one of those joysticks.. I wonder if I can do the same, but I think I’ll stick with Vice, the C64 emulator for the moment. (via)
Getting to know the Trotts
Just goes to show what a hectic week it was last week. Despite it being on the front cover of the Business Section, I completely missed this Sunday Times interview with Mena and Ben Trott, the founders of Six Apart, makers of blog software Moveable Type, Vox, Typepad and owners of Livejournal.
It’s a personable interview that doesn’t go into any great technical detail but it’s interesting for me to find out a little about the competition from my outpost across the Atlantic.
Is RSA encryption broken?
First spotted on the ILUG mailing list, it appears that a young 16 year old student has cracked the RSA encryption system and won 1st prize at the BT Young Scientist Competition 2007.
If it’s true then Internet commerce could be in for a rough time, but some previous winners have proven to be less than remarkable when seen against the cold light of day. This comment from the winner, Abdusalam Abubakar, seems to indicate that the method used might not be that effective either. Check out this ILUG thread for further discussion. Can it be true he wrote it in Visual Basic?
“It was great, unbelievable. I didn’t think I was going to win anything. I didn’t want to be optimistic,” he told The Irish Times last night. Abdusalam, whose name translates into “man of peace”, based his initial work on partially successful attacks on the world’s most widely-used encryption system, RSA, mounted by two mathematicians. He decided to take the best aspects of both and generalise a new approach, which he believes has the potential to tackle at least some less complex coding systems.
The Paris Hilton video
Paris Hilton makes headlines all over the world just for being her but her sex video, “One Night in Paris” made her even more infamous! Now just hanging out with Britney Spear isn’t enough. The video released by ex-boyfriend, Rick Salomon caused quite a stir.
Now here exclusively is Paris Hilton’s new video! Check out the video here for download. Be careful, it’s shiny!
(Yes, this is like Pamela Anderson’s latest video, and yes, this is the last time I’ll recycle this joke!)
What is it about Paris Hilton that made you search for her video today?
Idiots on the road on film
Gardai are investigating a video found on bebo.com made by two lads from Cork. They made a video of themselves driving at 200km/h through the Jack Lynch Tunnel and then posted it on the Internet for all to see. I wonder who did they think would watch the video? Has the video made it outside Bebo yet? Apparently the Gardai have asked Bebo.com to take the video down so it could be gone for good. Pity, it could go down in Irish Internet Folklore.
While we’re waiting, here are two lads who decided to drive at speed through Dublin city center, at least until they passed an unmarked Garda car. (via Blogorrah)
The video might not be playing, but you can view it here still. Not sure why but it’ll probably right itself eventually. Note the comment from the driver:
deloford (2 months ago)
They stopped us because it was an english reg in dub& they thought the car was stolen by a couple of nackers, also you cant see clearly but it was v. bad driving in rain,nearly ran someone down,run red light,speeding in bus lane,a guy videoing it in the front seat which they saw.
Normal cops dont threaten to shoot you and if it was normal cops we’d ave been in the shit. He started to search and got a call.
And this comment was definitely not made by an Irish person, like,
Why is everyone using like at the end of every sentence what ever the fuck that means?!!!
Ask the developer
On January 20th I’ll be speaking at BarCamp South East on the subject of WordPress.com and WordPress MU. The talk is titled, “WordPress.com – running the biggest wpmu site in the world” which is vague enough that I could talk about anything but I’d like to know what you want to hear.
Public speaking isn’t my strong point, I prefer to be behind the keyboard, or looking through a camera lens but sometimes you have to push yourself to do unfamiliar things. Here’s my go at public speaking.
Talks will be in 45 minute slots and I would like to make mine more of a discussion forum like the WPMU talk we had at WordCamp way back in August last year. It went really well and everyone got something out of it.
Subjects I’m considering include:
- Merging code from WP core which is horribly exciting, have you ever seen vimdiff in action?
- Site stats – did you know we publish them?
- Hardware – server porn. How do we handle the load generated by Slashdots, Diggs, and almost 600,000 blogs?
- Hooks and plugins – new hooks in the signup process and wpmu admin backend.
- Anyone interested in working from home and virtual company issues? Automattic has employees in at least four countries.
So, if you’ll be there I want to hear from you. If you won’t, I still want to hear from you because I’m sure Bernie or someone will record the talk and put it up online.
Dan and Becs, a love story in the unmaking
Reception to the new comedy on RTE has been less than favourable, or so it seems by what The Screaming Lady has to say as well as Blogorrah.
Was it really that bad? I didn’t watch it so I was spared the experience but someone must have done so! Go on admit it, what did you think of it? Was it a pile of trash or the greatest thing since Big Brother? (Or does that amount to the same thing anyway?)
Just in case you missed a few episodes or you’re wondering what all the fuss is about, here are a few episodes, courtesy of Blogorrah where I saw them first!
Dan & Becs, Episode One: The Club of Love
Episode Two: All About Becs
Episode Three: All About Dan