I switched on the radio this morning to hear Gerry Ryan mention the Irish Financial Services Regulatory Authority. He gave a phone number and the above URL saying they had published a guide to mortgages. Obviously I had just missed a conversation on mortgages but at least I found the guide available as a 122kb pdf document at the above URL. It looks like a good read for anyone buying a house in Ireland (and perhaps in other countries too).
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Format C: on a Nokia 7650?
So I finally managed to get the “Nokia Suite” software working in Windows (it doesn’t seem to like an almost fully patched WinXP!) and I have my phone backed up over Bluetooth.
Now, how do I go about deleting 827 texts? I could go through them and pick out the ones from the ex but that would take too long, and by using p3nfs I hoped to do grep -r "ex's phone number" /mnt/psion/C:/Mail/| xargs rm -f but I don’t think p3nfs is stable enough to handle that much traffic. It certainly fell over when I tried to backup my phone using it. I’ll give it a go tomorrow, it might work! Anyway, deleting her number from my contacts is a lot easier! 🙂
If you know of any 7650 app for doing mass-deletes of text messages please leave a comment!
Update! Just figured out that I can “Mark All”, and I then delete the texts with a few clicks of the Option button. Sorted!
Nightime around Cork
Rushing Somewhere
Taken from the flyover by Silver Springs on Thursday night. I’m sure that drivers thought I was a speed cop with my camera mounted on the tripod pointing at traffic! Certainly, many of them were doing well over the advertised 30mph limit on that stretch of road.
The ESB transformer substations, Marina, Cork.
Power generation has had a long history in Cork!
Street Lights on the Straight Rd.
John braved the cold with me on Saturday evening to take a few memorable photos of the Lee Fields. It was very cold!
Mortgage vs Rent
Zimran has an interesting but brief analysis of the housing market in Boston. The linked article has more, including this nugget:
… shortly after 2010, housing prices in most currently hot markets are going to fall off a cliff, as boomers downsize.
I don’t expect that to happen here in Ireland at least. Has it happened already? What about the boomers of the 60s here in Ireland? They’re all living in bigger houses now!
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Pic of the day – Rugby Action
Amazing action shot from a rugby match in Ulster. Whatever about the guy leaping through the air, I love the expression on the opposing team player on the ground!
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Telling The Story
Sometimes there’s a story behind photographs, and Michael relates an experience he had one morning finding that story.
I hesitated before linking to this as I think that “finding the story” could also be the curse of photography. Michael spent so much time looking for great shots that he may have missed enjoying a beautiful morning.
We as photographers spend so much time analysing situations, scenes and lighting that we miss the point of being in a particular place, whether it be on holiday or submerged in the mundane activity of life.
Needless to say, this curse also afflicts my life.
B2++ Referer Blacklist
I’ve just added a blacklist to the b2++ referer system.
It’s fairly simple. If you see an evil referer appearing on your page simply go to the referer admin page, select the checkbox next to that URl and hit the “Add To Blacklist” button.
I’ve briefly tested it and it seems to work fine, but if you encounter any problems please leave a comment here or email me at the usual address.
Now to blacklist that medication site that linked to me…
A Year Ago Today
I can’t believe it. It’s a year since Spring died. I remember the day like it was yesterday. I took her for a walk in the morning, and we played with her, throwing sticks for her to fetch, or running after her out on the green until shortly before the vet called to the house.
2003 – bye bye, not a good year.