Something Odd!

235MPG – New VW car does almost 100km/lt! Via Meta Filter

ugh! I woke up this morning with a pain in my back, sore throat and shivering. After breakfast I feel much better!

Good news today from two sectors.
ODTR and Eircom settle. Eircom will launch DSL immediately.
Insurance report focuses on legal sector. Maybe we’ll get slightly cheaper car insurance. Pigs might fly?

And bad news too.
Esat limit the number of calls on Surf No-Limits. *grrr*

CDWOW – cheap(ish) CDs and DVDs if you live in Ireland. I presume they also have foreign sites too.

Journey to the furthest planets in Scientific American.

I read an article over the weekend about Scale Free Networks but can’t remember now which magazine it was in. Nature has an article which touches on it though.

Google, PHP and SOAP.

A few weeks ago a woman was raped in Sundays Well, Cork. Last weekend another woman was raped in the same area. This is just a few hundred yards from where Martina lives. *shudder*

Two Guards were killed on Sunday morning when joy riders drove into their car at about 100mph. The joy riders were 15 and 16. I heard on the radio this evening that one of them had been convicted of 25 offenses 7 weeks ago, ranging from burglury to handling stolen goods. Reaction on talk shows has been venomous.

C64 webserver! and it comes with source code! Nice!
Remixed 64 tunes in MP3 format. Wow! Ghost ‘n Goblins never sounded as good! (Link may not work, there’s spaces in the filename! Just wget it!)

Life On the Net in 2004 via Voidstar. Then you return to reality with the realisation that it’s just 7:05am and you’ve already spent $264.

Ex refuses romantic plea despite world’s biggest rose bouquet. D’you think they’ve seen Cold Feet? I watched the first program in that series last night, I wonder would she take him back if he serenaded her naked with a rose stuck up his ass?
Anyway, I thought the first one was much funnier than the later ones I’ve seen.

The storm is over, you can come out now. Hailstorm <a href="http://www.winterspeak.com/2002_04_01_archive.html#

75280840″>is toast. Joel has his say about it.

I don’t know why I didn’t have Bottom Quark or 2012 on my list of links to the left. There’s some excellent science and archeology articles linked from them.

Hey Kika! Happy Birthday To You, Happy Birthday To You, Happy Birthday Dear Kika, Happy Birthday To You!

You know I’m very busy at work(more than usual!) when I don’t post here for 2 working days!

Thanks Grey Duck for linking to me!