Author Archives: Donncha

RTÉ News: Flood report says Burke got corrupt payments – after 5 years and EUR31m spent (I think). Of course, Bertie Ahern welcomes the report despite the fact that he initiated the tribunal only under severe pressure from the opposition 5 years ago.. ‘s funny that *his* ministers were found to be corrupt..

Just because I link to lots of motorbike photos doesn’t mean I want one Owen.. 😉

Support for the Irish Government has plummeted! Is that unexpected? No, they lied outright to the voting population by saying there “wouldn’t be any cutbacks”, instead Bertie calls the current round of cuts “adjustments”. I’m sure the people on the poverty line who were deprived of more medical care because of these adjustments appreciate that.

Inside The Demise of 3dfx – My first 3d card was a 3dfx and I remember being blown away by it in a way no card has done since. Maybe it’s because Quake suddenly became a whole new game with the openGL version. *sigh*

Flirting With Mac OS X – Mark, must call up and see this amazing OS for myself some time!

i2 wiki/on us foreign policy –
“Iraq: incredible weapons – incredible weapons.”
How do you know that?
“Uh, well… We looked at the receipts Haar.”

Joel on Software – Worst Project Ever? – A brief look at what happened inside Napster.

Cringely knows how to stop and change the DMCA. Might take some organisation to do it though.

SpamAssassin – up to 2.41 now, I’m way behind! Seems to be a lot of internal changes too. It now has a configure script!

Twin Towers & plane – Is this fake? Supposedly taken a month before the attack, were planes allowed to fly over Manhattan before 9/11/01?
While googling I found this page, Terrorism & Disinformation but note the source of the writing.