Category Archives: General

Evolt.org have some excellent articles linked from their front page right now.

I went to see We Were Soldiers last night and was blown away by it. It’s done very well, maybe too well. I left the cinema shaken, shocked and thoughtful. Go see it, but you may not want to watch it again.

Mysql and transactions:

Part 1

Part 2

From PHP Everywhere

More broadband promises – 5mb to every house by 2005. Skeptical discussion on ILUG can be found in the ILUG archives. Great! But as far as I’m concerned this is like setting up a committee to implement an environmental improvement program and then filling it with representatives of an oil company.

Guess that’s what they did in the States so why not in Ireland too?

FOREGONE CONCLUSION:

1. The Japanese eat very little fat and suffer fewer heart attacks than the British or Americans.
2. On the other hand, the French eat a lot of fat and also suffer fewer heart attacks than the British or Americans.
3. The Japanese drink very little red wine and suffer fewer heart attacks than the British or Americans.
4. The Italians drink excessive amounts of red wine and also suffer fewer heart attacks than the British or Americans.
5. Conclusion: Eat & drink what you like. It’s speaking English that kills you.

(Thanks Gillian!)

It’s all bollox, isn’t it. In this essay, Julian Bond talks about XML-RPC, blogger API, Userland. Worth a read if you’re interested in talking to these services by doing the RPC thing!

Warnings about energy drinks – Thomas Quigley, Scientific and Technical Director of the Stimulant Drinks Committee of the Food Safety Promotion Board, says that stimulant drinks should carry a clear label warning that they should neither be consumed with alcohol, nor be used as a thirst quencher by people during exercise or sports activity

Following on from the link “You don’t have to be..”, there’ll be a security conference in TCD tomorrow, thanks John.

NYPD Blue star goes naked for anti-fur campaign.

MPs vote for outright hunting ban.

A&E Nurses have been striking for better conditions for the past 7 days. Employers are calling on them to stop their “work to rule.”

Heathrow robbery: $3m taken from security van.

Final Oscar votes due in tonight

Virtual keyboard unveiled at world computer show

Irish government to ban the use of mobiles while driving – AFAIK, it’s already illegal because it’s covered by the more general “driving without due care” law.