The Fiscal Treaty approaches. Batman will vote NO and fight on against all odds.
Favourite part? Gilmore as Two Face, or the explanation for the Joker’s name. (via)
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The amazing self charging Android phone
Some things never change. Both Android phones I’ve owned (Samsung Galaxy S 1 & 2) have this weird bug where the phone turns itself off and when reset by removing the battery the charge level has gone way down.
I woke early this morning to discover the PIN unlock screen so I guessed the phone had rebooted. When I checked the battery levels I saw this. The battery suddenly lost a huge chunk of charge sometime during the night but over the next few hours seemed to recharge itself.
I’d say it’s magic.
Welcome to Life
Tom Scott looks at what a corporate sponsored and controlled afterlife might be like. Creepy.
That’s why you must choose The Pirate Bay as your primary healthcare? provider.
Robot Enrichment
I just noticed that Portal 2 now has a store where you can modify your robot. I like the way Valve monetize their games. They bring out free DLC, expanding older games with updates and offering them either free (TF2) or at a steep discount. Then they encourage you to buy hats and personalise your character! Nothing like some of the other grind to play free games I’ve played elsewhere.
Two games spring to mind, both free Android games. Samurai vs Zombies and Garfield Defense. Both play in exactly the same way even though they are apparently by different developers. I swear they used the one game engine and just swapped out graphics and sound.
In both games you collect coins to purchase power ups but those purchases are fairly pricey and by the time you get to level 10 you’ll need to grind and play the level 4 or 5 times to get enough coins to buy an upgrade to finish the level.
Still, not a bad way to spend a few minutes while waiting for the bus or something but to be honest I’d rather use my phone to read a book!
I almost forgot to mention the iOS version of Plants vs Zombies. It received a few updates recently which added the ability to plant flowers that reward you with silver and gold. I only tried it briefly but soon discovered that you need to use fertilizer or the plants will wilt. Of course you have to use real money to buy the fertilizer. *sigh*
Super Cache for the Weekend
WP Super Cache 1.0 came out several months ago and while it worked fine for most people there’s always room for improvement and bug fixes. Here are some of the bug fixes and improvements coming in the next version which I plan on releasing next week.
There are a lot of changes there so if you have a self hosted blog I would really appreciate if you download the development version, wp-super-cache.zip and install it in your plugins folder.
- Use $_SERVER[ ‘SERVER_NAME’ ] to create cache directories.
- Only create blogs cached directories if valid requests and blogs exist.
- Only clear current blog’s cache files if navigation menu is modified
- Added clean_post_cache action to clear cache on post actions
- Removed garbage collection details on Contents tab
- Added wp_cache_check_mobile cacheaction filter to shortcircuit mobile device check.
- Don’t delete cache files for draft posts
- Added action on wp_trash_post to clear the cache when trashed posts are deleted
- Show a warning when 304 browser caching is disabled (because mod_rewrite caching is on)
- New check for safe mode if using less that PHP 5.3.0
- Added wp_supercache_remove_cookies filter to disable anonymous browsing mode.
- Fixed garbage collection schedule dropdown
- Fixed preload problem clearing site’s cache on “page on front” sites.
- Fix for PHP variable not defined warnings
- Fixed problem refreshing cache when comments made as siteurl() sometimes didn’t work
- Preloading of taxonomies is now optional
- Domain mapping fixes.
- Better support for https sites. Remove https:// to get cache paths.
- Added AddDefaultCharset .htaccess rule back in and added an option to remove it if required.
- Added multisite plugin that adds a “Cached” column to Network->Sites to disable caching on a per site basis.
- Added WPTouch plugin to modify browser and prefix list in mobile detection code. Added support for that plugin’s exclude list.
- Fixed cache tester
- Filter the tags that are used to detect end-of-page using the wp_cache_eof_tags filter.
Puny god!
Thanks IrishTek
BF3 vs TF2
Who wins when two great games collide?
Will swap voice and texts for data
I hardly ever use up the monthly voice minutes and texts on my phone. Apparently carriers make more and more of their revenue from their customer’s data usage. Glad I’m near wifi most of the day!
What about you?
Harness racing on Cork’s roads
Two harness racers on the Cork to Mallow road defying Garda attempts to stop them and driving against traffic on a very busy road. Crazy guys, crazy.
More on Reddit and Silicon Republic.
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Look lads there are races on that road all the time with horses and no harm done it was the Garda? that caused the madness forcering the pony to the other side of the road it 2 horses on the right side of the road for 2 mile the first 1 finish first wins but the Garda fucked it all upMrFastpony 1 hour ago
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For all ye stupid fucking? cunts that have Notting better to do but call names what about all the junkies and prostitute and rapiest n child malisters of settle people ya never hare about travellers up on court for any of that so who is the real scumbags here I think it the settle kindMrFastpony 6 hours ago
The Stability Treaty: How are you voting?
Like all the other European treaties the Irish public is being threatened with doomsday scenarios by both sides of The Fiscal Stability Treaty. Reddit user cianomahony posted the photo above in response.
The Government says that the country won’t have access to any money if we vote no, but the Sunday Times asked the IMF and the Department of Finance if that was the case and they both said the country could apply to the IMF regardless of the outcome of the Treaty. It’s just the ESM we won’t have access to. Today’s Sunday Times goes on to say that Ireland will have to pay 1.27bn Euro into that fund if the Treaty is ratified. Where the hell does that money come from? We’ll get a loan ..
Campaigning has been going on for only a week so far, I haven’t listened to much of what the No side say but right now I want to vote No. I wonder if the Government will rerun the Referendum if we vote No the first time? Fianna Fail and the Greens did it twice, time for Fine Gael and Labour to do likewise?