Mark Goldstein has an excellent blog here. Although he does concentrate on the high end, where I have no chance of joining for a good couple of years!
Author Archives: Donncha
Water Rockets – up, up and away!
Google led me here where they have instructions on making a simple water rocket out of a 50ml bottle. I originally found out abou all this stuff from The Jer Zone. Anyone reading this make one of these things?
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2003 Taste of Chicago
Woohoo! The 2003 Taste of Chicago starts today! Here’s what’s on today!
The 2003 Taste of Chicago presented by U.S. Cellular will field a great line-up of food, activities and entertainment, June 27- July 6, 2003 in Grant Park, featuring many returning players as well as some great new stars.
Taste-goers will step up to the plate at 65 restaurants serving specialties from pizza to pierogies. A different restaurant will be featured each day in the Gourmet Dining Pavilion each of the ten days of the festival.
Chicago from afar
This is what I see if I look towards Chicago from the top of my apartment.. (some obvious and not well done manipulation done in the GIMP)
Sammy Sosa, Baseball & corked bats
At the start of June Sammy Sosa, Chicago Cubs’ star player broke his bat during a game. Cork was discovered inside the bat, lending him an unfair advantage while hitting. I was there with Martina, and although I didn’t realise the full extent and implications of what was happening, I snapped a few photos. It made headline news for about 2 weeks afterwards! You can find more about this via Google.
Referees and inspectors walk off the field. You can clearly see the bat Sammy used, and there’s a slight shadow in the middle. Is that where the cork was?
The bat was inspected at the side of the field. Shortly after they walked off and the game continued.
But not before members of the Cubs and one of their officials had a good talk..
As the game restarted, the Cubs pitched..
W32.Sobig.E@mm
Several copies of W32.Sobig.E@mm have made their way to the mail server at work. Luckily, there’s a simple Procmail recipe to stop it. The above recipes use the Procmail E-mail Sanitizer by John Hardin to catch malicios content such as this virus.
Americans discover UK & Ireland TV Licences
Deleting duplicate rows from a MySQL database
Esos shows a good way of removing duplicate entries from a database table. Of course, if primary keys were used this shouldn’t happen, but doing a select distinct into another table is neat !
Chicago Pictures
I went for a walk earlier today and promptly got lost as I tried to return to work. I walked down Wells St. to Congress, instead of walking one block the other direction to Washington.. *doh* On the way I took a few photos..
This is the Chicago Board of Trade and a very famous landmark in downtown Chicago. There’s a similar (but much better) night time view of this building hanging in the corridor at work in Cork. I’ll have to get a tripod and try and replicate the night image.
This is where I work, right at the top of the building, floor 38! How high is the County Hall at home?
Chicago people have been very helpful any time I needed help finding directions. Some go out of their way walking with you and explaining the names of the surrounding streets. I spotted this woman as she was talking to this tram driver and obviously lost as she was carrying balloons in the financial district.. 🙂