As Mark says, Paris Hilton’s phone got hacked and her phone book was posted online. *Yawn*
Yes, there are pictures too but they’re the usual camera phone quality. No doubt a few of them will make it into the banner ads of some less than savoury websites shortly!
And yes, this is an excuse to name Paris Hilton on my blog. She is the most searched for female in Ireland. Thanks Darragh – blogs.linux.ie is going to be up there with the celeb sites for the latest trash news and speculation! 🙂
Much later… Now you too can see Paris Hilton’s cellphone for yourself. The guys at liquidgeneration have recreated her phone on the web and it’s extraordinary! hehe.
It's Freezing Out!
Taken in my garden this morning as my breath turned to mist and the world was frosty white.
Sudan Red 1 – carcinogenic dye found in household brands
The Food Safety Authority of Ireland has issued a list of Irish products that contain the food dye Sudan Red 1.
The Food Standards Agency in the UK have identified up to 350 food products implicated.
I just checked the kitchen and none of the listed products are in the cupboard. *phew*
So, if that dye causes cancer and has been recalled, why not recall cigarettes?
Later… Maura has more to say on it including links to the slow food website and other goodies!
10 MORE Ways to Make Money with Your Digital Cameras
Following on from the original article, here are 10 more ways to make money with your digital camera!
Hmm, I could do some of these things!
The New Roy Keane Bridge!
A new footbridge is to be built in London to link the National Stadium to the town centre.
Now’s your chance to name the bridge! Simply visit the page above, read about what they’re doing and click on “the competition” link. Now you can name the bridge.
I’d suggest the name “Roy Keane Bridge” as Mr. Keane has contributed so much to English soccer and he’s great and he’s from Cork and all that sort of thing.
(Thanks Donal for the link!)
Telephone Monitoring While on Hold
I keep hearing about this but I keep forgetting that “they” might be listening when I’m on hold. *shrug*
PHP Future – Java or Simplicity
Conflict PHP is an opinion piece on the state of PHP. PHP5 (which I haven’t tried yet) is going down the road of Java and copying it’s object model and other ideas.
That’s no bad thing but most PHP developers surveyed don’t want that.
Adoption of PHP4 was much faster than PHP5 is, possibly because there was such a huge difference between versions 3 and 4. If PHP5 features were really “must haves” then people would be crying out for them. Zend is getting more “corporate” and I hope it doesn’t backfire on them!
John Lim has more on the issue.
Oops, we lost our nuclear fuel!
From where I live the Sellafield nuclear processing plant lies just across a narrow stretch of water. 30kg of fuel was reported missing a few days ago, prompting international concern and questions in the Dail, the Irish Parlaiment. They say the Missing plutonium ‘just on paper’ but I’ve found it.. it’s on eBay!
Q: Will you sell this in a decommissioned form and will you take “Northern bank hundred pound notes :)” What is postage to South Armagh 🙂
A: No I will not take hundred pound notes, nor I will not finance Irish revolutions, but seeing as you are from over the pond Guiness IS a viable alternative..
Canadian Dollar.. Why the interest?
Funny that, you can be working away at the office and notice something that sparks your interest but there’s no time to look into it.
I noticed earlier today that there was quite a bit of interest in the Canadian Dollar but it only became apparent later why when I searched for Canada! Thanks Alan for the visitors! 🙂
vfat (Very Fat?) Linux
This article is a good read if you access Windows/DOS drives from Linux. The author explains how to access those drives, as well as some of the restrictions and problems when using vfat drives.
NTFS is also an option of course, but as Linux only has read-only access to that, vfat is a better solution if you want to share files between the two operating systems. Pity it’s so slow and has so many restrictions. 🙁
There’s also a warning contained within: if you’re using a Linux 2.4 kernel, be wary if you have vfat partitions over 130GB in size. You will lose data. This problem was solved in the now widely available 2.6 kernel.