Something Odd!

100 albums you should remove from your collection immediately – I have a few of the U2 ones. I’m glad no Queen album was mentioned or I would have gone off in a huff and not linked to the list. *grin*

CNEWS Law & Order – Hijacker to be sentenced – He was caught by using Google to track him down! That’s actually a bit scary really.

Google Weblog – Lots of news about everyones favourite search engine! Although I didn’t know Google wanted AmazonLite down..

plasticbag.org | weblog – I think I might enjoy visiting this site.

Net Users Try to Elude the Google Grasp – A search for my name results in a fairly conclusive overview of my Internet activities over the past few years.

PHP Function Benchmark – very interesting and worth reading over if you develop using PHP.

The Interactive Way To Go – Good tutorial on the game of Go. There’s also GNU Go available for many platforms. Hmm. One for the Palm Pilot. Must see!

There’s some pretty screenshots of KDE 3.1 Alpha 1 here.

And in response to my post about the UK accepting open source software, Mark replies,

Amazingly enough, the Irish government is in the pocket of Sun, MS & IBM.
They turned down MS’s offer to build the government portal sites, and turned to Sun to do it with iPlanet on Solaris.
MS sit in the front end, and AS/400’s & S/390’s do all the heavy lifting in the back. Some one in there is canny enough to get it kinda right, he/she just isn’t the one running the entire techie show. We need a national IT tsar, someone who isn’t a clueless idiot, but not someone smart owned by one of the vendors. Ideally, he or she could take a big stick to eircom and other luddites to get them moving on the infrastructure we really need.

Found via IRC, Common Interview Question.