Author Archives: Donncha

Got an AIM account? The Register reports that you can search through past AIM conversations. Through Googol you can use Aimsearch to do the searching!

Hehe.. posted to the CorkLUG mailing list, Microsoft Windows 98’s secret

Check out this caption competition but you probably won’t get most of the jokes unless you’re Irish!

There’s a new Alertbox today on site map usability.

Another site to look out for is Webword who publish a regular usability newletter too.

Garret pointed to this Unix cheat sheet but it’s in Word format! One of the comments linked to another list but that one requires MSIE for full functionality too! What’s with Unix guys these days?

Do you suffer from static shocks every time you get out of your car?
So did Stephen Shirley..

Apt and RPM – this rocks!

A list I moderate got 13 spams over the course of the holidays. Quite a lot I thought.
I had to clear out another 13 spams from over the weekend this morning..

Called into the bank this afternoon to pay off the Visa. Problem was, I had a Sterling cheque to deposit too, so which queue do I go into. Foreign Exchange/Cash or Non-cash transactions. I went for the latter in the end, mainly because there was only 3 people there and 7 before me in the other queue. Still took ages to get to the counter. Euro dealings are taking longer methinks. I had lots of Euro bills with me, does anyone else think it’s like Monopoly money? And don’t get me started on the tiny coins!