The John Hancock Centre, shrouded in fog.

The John Hancock Centre, shrouded in fog.

On our first morning in Chicago a thunderstorm struck! This is the view from the hotel window!

Digitize your LPs and tapes – there’s loads of tapes sitting in a box at home. What’s on ’em? I do recall flipping tapes over while recording the Queen tribute concert.. might be nice to dig that out!
Why smart people defend bad ideas – lots of quoteable quotes here. Very interesting read!
Paul O’Keefe wrote to me to tell me about the Irish Blogs and Bloggers Directory, or should I say boggersphere?
I added mine there for the heck of it, nice to see it being populated already!
Penis Causes Terror Alert – The bomb squad was brought in to handle the situation, but as Paul said on #linux, “who ever left it there had some balls.”
How To Have A Number One The Easy Way
The majority of Number One’s are achieved early on in the artist’s public career and before they have been able to establish reputations and build a solid fan base. Most artists are never able to recover from having one and it becomes the millstone around their necks to which all subsequent releases are compared. The fact that a record is Number One automatically means the track is in a very short period of time going to become over exposed and as worthless as last month’s catchphrase.
Is it legal to display a GPLed image on a coffee mug? Wilber is the GIMP mascot and someone wants to sell mugs with his image on them.. Legal? Olivier Ripoll replied:
Wilber logo is GPLed. So as long as you provide the source code of your mug and carve the complete GPL licence on the bottom face of the mug, there is no problem.
This girl learned a useful lesson when her dad discovered a photo she should have kept to herself… delete your stuff when using another PC!