Category Archives: General

Friends – so cute!

Basic design principles via Keith Devens

TCM Breaking News: Free Content – The Irish Examiner has RSS, Javascript and Java feeds!

Kylie unhappy with video’s bum deal – I saw her at the MTV Music Awards on TV last night. She may be unhappy with her bum deal but…

dvd::rip – A full featured DVD Ripper GUI for Linux, written in Perl – From first impressions this looks very good but I’ll post more later after I’ve ripped a DVD.
I already tried DRIP but it wouldn’t compile on Red Hat 8.0, gcc gave an “internal compiler error” (no, I’m too lazy to post a bug to RH bugzilla.. 😛
Both these programs depend on other software to do the ripping and encoding but everything needed was readily available on freshrpms.net through my local apt-rpm mirror in Dublin!

The Register explains why you need to upgrade WinXP to SP1 – A malicious Win-XP Help Center request can easily and silently delete the contents of any directory on your Windows machine… Ouch! Anyone want a copy of Red Hat 8.0?
(thanks John!)

Mark describes some Apple Switch adverts you won’t see. hehe.

American view of Europe

Index DOT Css: Index Page – for my own bookmarks.

[stop]design After 6 years, 3 months, 3 days, my employment with Wired comes to an end today. What a ride it’s been.