Category Archives: General

I hate when links die and the articles, insights, and information that once lived somewhere is lost. Via the “A Year Ago” link to the left, I came across this post again. It’s a photography article on using an external flash but it’s gone now. grrr.
I think I need to start using that DVD burner at home and archive stuff I link to. Especially tutorials, and once-off articles that I really got some value out of.

(That title was in the best Ferris Bueller tradition – ye’re too young if you don’t know what I’m talking about!) Sorry, can’t help you there, I guess I’m lucky. I’ve only caught 7 copies of the new virus that’s sweeping the world now. I presume that’ll icrease once the USA wakes up shortly!

Topix is a new news aggregator, like Google News but it has the ability it dig down to local news. If you live in the USA you can enter your location and find news from your area! It even has news from Ireland too, although I only recognised 2 or 3 of the headlines. Most of the news that’s making headlines at home isn’t represented, but hopefully it’ll improve. One major problem of course is the fact that Irish newspapers don’t provide free access to their archives which is unfortunate. (That’s not a criticism, it’s an observation, the “free lunch” of the Internet is over!)
(via John Battelle)

This is one list I’ll be going over tonight. I’ve made many of the mistakes contained within and usually I realise I’m making some of them when I run out of steam in a long run-on-sentence that isn’t going anywhere fast and is basically there to fill space. Either that or I get distracted and finish the sentence quickly without

The King of Hearts rocked The Coal Quay Bar again tonight! Guys, ye’re getting better and better! Just please warn me before you point and introduce me to the punters in the pub! 🙂

Hehe, happy birthday Earhart! I heard the request and guessed it was yourself as who else mentions Mr. Tubridy on their blog? heh.

Who watched the first episode of Nip/Tuck last night on Sky?
I watched a couple of episodes in Chicago and found it compelling viewing, even if it’s not everyone’s cup of tea. It’s a dark comedy, showing how obsessed we as a media influenced population are with body image and looks.

“Am I really that ugly?”

It goes without saying, that if you’re at all squemish about blood or seeing people cut up then this is not for you.

The whois.sc site is a nice interface to whois! This page gives the whois details for linux.com (via referers on a site at work)

Via Keith comes this online course on learning Prolog.
Why do I mention this? Well, I remember Prolog. I remember defining white, red, and blue houses, and who ate fish in one, and meat in another. I remember turning my head inside out trying to figure out what the hell was happening! Never again I tell you! *shudder*