Something Odd!

FOREGONE CONCLUSION:

1. The Japanese eat very little fat and suffer fewer heart attacks than the British or Americans.
2. On the other hand, the French eat a lot of fat and also suffer fewer heart attacks than the British or Americans.
3. The Japanese drink very little red wine and suffer fewer heart attacks than the British or Americans.
4. The Italians drink excessive amounts of red wine and also suffer fewer heart attacks than the British or Americans.
5. Conclusion: Eat & drink what you like. It’s speaking English that kills you.

(Thanks Gillian!)

It’s all bollox, isn’t it. In this essay, Julian Bond talks about XML-RPC, blogger API, Userland. Worth a read if you’re interested in talking to these services by doing the RPC thing!

Warnings about energy drinks – Thomas Quigley, Scientific and Technical Director of the Stimulant Drinks Committee of the Food Safety Promotion Board, says that stimulant drinks should carry a clear label warning that they should neither be consumed with alcohol, nor be used as a thirst quencher by people during exercise or sports activity

Following on from the link “You don’t have to be..”, there’ll be a security conference in TCD tomorrow, thanks John.

NYPD Blue star goes naked for anti-fur campaign.

MPs vote for outright hunting ban.

A&E Nurses have been striking for better conditions for the past 7 days. Employers are calling on them to stop their “work to rule.”

Heathrow robbery: $3m taken from security van.

Final Oscar votes due in tonight

Virtual keyboard unveiled at world computer show

Irish government to ban the use of mobiles while driving – AFAIK, it’s already illegal because it’s covered by the more general “driving without due care” law.

Running a corporation in an open source world – Good article by the founder of TheKompany.

Mandrake 8.2 is out and there’s plenty of discussion on /.

Aol History – but what happens if AOL move to Mozilla?

You mean, you don’t need to be a computer expert to hack computers?

I bought Sonic Advance on Saturday. It’s not bad, well, it’s Sonic, exactly like the old versions. Graphics are amazing, sound is good, I haven’t played it much yet though, (as ever, I always get up to something else..)

I played Pitfall while waiting for Martina in a shop, it was strange hearing the chirping atmospheric sounds in that scene, and I’m sure I got some bewildered looks from some customers *grin*

Oh yeah, the only light for the GBA which works well is one I bought in a shop in Barcelona. It saps battery but it’s well worth the money. Those ones on stretchy wire aren’t much good IMO. 🙁

If you run PHP on a Windows box then the PHPConfig may come in handy for configuring your php.ini file. (from Evolt.org)

The Wrong Way to Use CSS

2012 – an excellent blog I found through blogsnob!