Your Most Important Financial Decision – Be content with what you have.
Contentment isn’t a feeling or a mood; it’s a decision. Only by choosing to be content with what you already have can you accomplish your budget, saving, and investing goals. Without choosing contentment, you’ll be ensnared by a subtle but ever-expanding appetite for money and all the things it can purchase — and worst of all, it’s an appetite that’s never fulfilled.
Static Red – Found this linked from blogsnob. Nice looking site.
Have you ever seen a FOUC? I have, using Netscape and/or Mozilla, although it could have been because my machine was slow and/or running setiathome at the time!
Do a Google search for “solaris is shite” and you’ll get Kate’s wonderful Adventures With Root Partitions which he always mentions whenever Solaris is mentioned on the ILUG list.
Realaudio links from RTE
Father Tom Doyle speaks about his views on the Catholic Church – He’s a Canon Lawyer and “expert witness” in a case against the Catholic Church.
Charlie Bird, Chief News Correspondent, has the details on today’s discussions about the National Aquatic Centre.
Marie Jones, mother of Conor, expresses her concern about her son who is missing – He’s autistic and touring around Kerry but didn’t ring home.
Professor Miriam Wylie, author of the new report on the health service, discusses the findings of her work. The report shows hospitals treating more people, more quickly. This comes after the recent nurses “work-to-rule” over conditions in the A&E departments in hospitals.
John O’Shea of GOAL explains why his organisation wants the Government to withdraw the Irish ambassador to Uganda.
Two broadband links:
Cathy Halloran, Mid West Correspondent, talks to businessmen outside Dublin who are worried about losing out.
Michael Noonan, Fine Gael leader, says that the issue is very serious outside the Greater Dublin area. This is a good interview. Worth listening to.
How to get started editing video & audio with Linux – Might look into this. I wonder what Linux firewire support is like?
Lotus developing car with intelligent engine – When the car hits congestion it will automatically shut down two of its four cylinders and travel at a reduced speed.
When it hits the open road again it will return to full thrust. Fuel consumption will be cut by 20% and exhaust emissions by 90%.
PHP Developers Netword is a new site. There’s only a press release there at the moment but they have ambitious plans.
Ken Guest asked about the Scan SC2500 DVD Player on ILUG-Social. There were a number of good replies and I was sent this email with more details about it’s brand name.
It’s a beautiful day outside. The sun is shining, it’s very pleasant. Unfortunately that holds it’s own dangers. I was driving threw a sunlit area and then turned left into a shaded area. There was a blind man trying to cross the road there. I didn’t see him until I passed him. It gave me quite a fright.
Ugandan soldiers executed for Irish priest murder – despite calls from the collegues of the murdered priest for them not be executed.
Over 1,500 feared dead in Afghanistan earthquakes – I didn’t hear that on the news this morning!
Had a great weekend, but didn’t do much computer wise. I filmed the bike run Owen’s involved with yesterday and must get around to pumping it onto the PC now. I’m not looking forward to transferring the analogue video bit though!
May have the wedding business sorted, I have to make sure both couples are ok with my idea first though.
Paul Jakma explains some of the new Linux 2.6 features while Nick Murtagh tells it like it is, “Sort of like chroot on steroids?”
Very very busy today..