Damn.. spammers have found the email addresses of one of our internal mailing lists 🙁
Ananova: Survey reveals women’s pet hates about male drivers
Ananova: Councils consider remote-controlled disappearing toilets
Ananova: British Airways has posted third quarter pre-tax losses of £160 million
Onbusiness.ie: Broadband leaves European comsumers cold
RTE News: Review of the year
More later..
Linuxbierwanderung (Linux Beer Hike) will be held in Doolin, Co. Clare, Ireland this year. I know Proinnsias has done a lot of work preparing for this!
Ananova.com – BadTrans still top of the virus charts. This doesn’t surprise me because our mail server stops more Badtrans than anything else.
It’s St. Bridget’s Day today. Here’s the Google search I used to find that link.
Bono’s saving the world again. That’s a reference to a comedy video advertised on Irish tv over the Christmas holidays..
*Phew* Glad I have my Palm Pilot with me.. Must book a restaurant for Valentines Day!
Online.ie – Euthanasia renegades may have assisted suicide
Wish I had pictures to show of the floods because I just spent 20 minutes in 5mph traffic because I wanted to avoid the floods in town. There’s a realaudio report from Morning Ireland on the link above. Don’t have realplayer though.
Ananova.com – Motorist drives down hospital corridor to demand treatment.
Ananova.com – 78-year-old boy racer with mobile banned
Irish Examiner – Optimistic forecast for economic growth. The Irish economy is likely to grow faster than any other in the developed world. . . Gone are the days of 10% annual growth! *sigh*
Damn, Mozilla sucks for copy and paste!
Tired of crappy fonts in Linux? Take a look at the Font HOWTO, especially the bits about True Type fonts. The link to the Microsoft website works but the .exe files on offer don’t seem to be zip files, so just copy over the Fonts directory from your windows directory and follow the instructions in the HOWTO.
I updated the code below after talking to Ivan at WebKreator. It now works without opening a new window!
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" fgcolor="#000000" onload="javascript:endTime()">
<img src="" width=1 height=1 name="counter">
<script language="javascript">
<!--
var now = new Date();
var start = now.getTime();
function endTime()
{
var now = new Date();
var end = now.getTime();
timeToComplete = ( end - start ) / 1000;
alert( "this page took "+timeToComplete+" seconds to load!" );
document.counter.src="/icons/text.gif?time="+timeToComplete;
}
// -->
</script>
When it rains heavily in Cork the roads flood. This morning the South Terrace flooded right across the road, even to the “high” side of the road! Apparently someone canoed up the road earlier in the morning – that was probably who put the bollards up!
I guess it was to be expected, publicans’ fury over Martin’s smoking ban makes it to the Examiner. Our health minister is going to ban smoking in pubs.. wooo!!! Go Micheál!