Pretty cool idea here.. Go out for a few drinks, enjoy yourself, leave a cigarette lighter behind. See what happens to the lighter… in Limerick!
Author Archives: Donncha
Hot out isn't it?
Believe it or not, it’s barely rained in 2 weeks in Ireland! Temperatures are in the mid-twenties and we’re dying here in the heat. It’s great! That’s a sure sign that school exams are about to start!
So, what’s it like in Barcelona these days? Hey – J! Hope you’re having a great time there 🙂
I don't feel like it, I just want you to hold me
We really shouldn’t laugh should we?
I never have quite figured out why the sexual urges of men & women differ so much. And I never have figured out the whole Venus and Mars thing….
Google has more links in case of link death. Thanks Dot for sending that on!
Fedora Core 2 and WinXP Problems?
Looks like a fairly major bug in Fedora Core 2 from RedHat. If you have WinXP installed before you install FC2 grub, or something, will destroy your partition table and possibly other data. There are a few solutions mentioned on the page above and there’s more on slashdot and the Fedora Test mailing list. I think I’ll hold off a few days before trying this release.
Oh! What a Night – mini review
Last night, as I mentioned previously we went to see “Oh! What a Night” in the Cork Opera House. In one word? Wow!
It’s a highly-charged musical set in 1970’s New York, mostly in a disco called Inferno and the auditioning for a movie about a new phenomenon called “disco dancing”!
The musical is all about the music, dancing, clothes and atmosphere of the 70s and it’s a funky look into an age past! The audience was dancing in the aisles by the end of the show, people were clapping along to the beat and not all the singing was from the stage!
If it comes to your city go see it. It’s only in Cork for a week, probably going on (or been to) Dublin, so go see it if you get a chance!
Referer Checking Now Ignoring Bots!
I’ve added code to the referer checking to check for a few common bots:
- “http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/slurp”
- “http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html”
- “http://www.blogdigger.com/”
- “http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm”
- “Feedster, LLC.”
- “http://www.breakingblogs.com/timbo_bot.html”
- “fastbuzz.com”
- “http://www.pubsub.com/”
- “http://www.bloglines.com”
- “http://www.drupal.org/”
- “Ask Jeeves/Teoma”
- “ia_archiver”
- “http://minutillo.com/steve/feedonfeeds/”
There are others but these showed up in the access logs of the last few minutes!
Sorry guys, your referer lists will be a lot shorter now!
Photo Essays in Spain
Two articles on Luminous Landscape with photos taken in Spain:
- Minolta A2 on Location – A review of the Minolta A2. I was pleasantly surprised when I read the author’s comment on the EVF of the camera. Electronic viewfinders simply aren’t good enough to display a scene properly. After learning about histograms previously I put it to use a few days ago and it certainly makes a marked difference to the exposure of a photograph!
- The Seville Fair – Great photos and commentary. I want to go travelling again!
Purely by coincidence. the photo of the day is from one of the train stations in Madrid.
The Rasterbator – blow up your images!
I haven’t tried The Rasterbator yet but to judge by the gallery it creates some great looking blow-ups! Here’s a short article and lots of comments (seems to be problems getting it to work unfortunately..)
The Langer Song
You want to download the langer song? This is what some people in Cork sound like. Both ordinary and posh, and it’s available at thesraid.com, just scroll down a little to the “Langer” entry. Plenty of people looking for it!
‘Course I don’t sound like them! My accent’s mostly flat and foreigners can easily understand me! 🙂
*gulp*
I came across this photo of a bomb technician after listening to a radio interview with Graeme Goldsworthy, a deminer with International Demining Group so it gave me the creeps to think of the potentially dangerous scene the photographer captured!