Category Archives: General

inluminent on html email. – lots of links.

Friends Don’t Let Friends Use Camera Phones – especially not when drunk, they might drop the phone into a pint!

Irishman gets RSS.
So I came in this morning and loaded up my browser ready for another day at work. I remembered I had left AmphetaDesk running the previous night (sorry, should have killed it when I left the office!) so I loaded up the channel page and to my delight the weblogs that had been updated over-night appeared in all their glory! Any weblog that hadn’t been updated appeared “hidden” at the bottom of the page. I’ll still have to visit weblogs though, as not all blogs have rss feeds (this one included), some aren’t updated, and some I suspect don’t have the correct timestamp on them (but that might be a side-effect of adding non-updating rss feeds to AmphetaDesk. The added weblog appeared at the top of the page. This morning the same feed appears at the bottom!)
Hmm.. I might even relearn Perl to see if I can help develop this program!

Irish company allows bets on Saddam survival

After an email from the author of AmphetaDesk regarding my previous post on RSS readers for Linux. I took a look at AmphetaDesk again, and downloaded the latest release. Via the updates page there I found AmphetaOutlines, a small patch to make the AmphetaDesk UI a bit more sophisticated. Well done guys!

Via IRC: Apocalyptic End-Times Comic – Page 3

<elrond> I wonder whose snatch was particularly great ?

BottomQuark always has good stuff. Here’s one, Yahoo! News – Man Aged 122 Dies in Egypt, and there’s plenty more!

Ever since mentioning the Bible Code here my site has come up on Google for numerous searches for that book. Someone came here looking for information about the shuttle, and another looked for information on Iraq. In the last search Sitemeter recorded as a referer I found yet another review of the Bible Code. Will the world come to an end in 2006? It could also end in 2012, the end of the Mayan calendar, or…

Smart Mobs + Smart Mobiles = the next social revolution? – blogging from your mobile phone. Includes a link to Newbay Software who have blogging server software you can blog to via MMS!