Tag Archives: Holy Shmoly

Lotus developing car with intelligent engine – When the car hits congestion it will automatically shut down two of its four cylinders and travel at a reduced speed.
When it hits the open road again it will return to full thrust. Fuel consumption will be cut by 20% and exhaust emissions by 90%.

Citroen recalls 70,500 Picassos over brake fault

PHP Developers Netword is a new site. There’s only a press release there at the moment but they have ambitious plans.

Ken Guest asked about the Scan SC2500 DVD Player on ILUG-Social. There were a number of good replies and I was sent this email with more details about it’s brand name.

It’s a beautiful day outside. The sun is shining, it’s very pleasant. Unfortunately that holds it’s own dangers. I was driving threw a sunlit area and then turned left into a shaded area. There was a blind man trying to cross the road there. I didn’t see him until I passed him. It gave me quite a fright.

Ugandan soldiers executed for Irish priest murder – despite calls from the collegues of the murdered priest for them not be executed.

Over 1,500 feared dead in Afghanistan earthquakes – I didn’t hear that on the news this morning!

Had a great weekend, but didn’t do much computer wise. I filmed the bike run Owen’s involved with yesterday and must get around to pumping it onto the PC now. I’m not looking forward to transferring the analogue video bit though!

May have the wedding business sorted, I have to make sure both couples are ok with my idea first though.

Paul Jakma explains some of the new Linux 2.6 features while Nick Murtagh tells it like it is, “Sort of like chroot on steroids?”

Very very busy today..

Blogzilla – Like Cam, I’m going to keep an eye on this site!

I’m a Mandrake Club member. I paid $60 for a year’s subscription. Am I upset that I can’t get Star Office for free? No, that doesn’t bother me. I paid for the membership so that the development of Free Software would be supported.
And to those that say that Star Office is closed source software, and that Mandrake shouldn’t support it, each copy of that software sold probably helps keep Sun interested in funding development of the GPL Open Office suite.
I’ll use Open Office anyway, on the very rare occasion that I have to open a Word document.

I went searching freshmeat for genealogy software and found several insteresting projects.

MplayerXP – multi-threaded Mplayer. I can’t imagine the original author will take this lying down, even though it’s perfectly legal to do so, and covered by the GPL.

Daypop Top 40 leads Slashdot, CNN – That should really be “Web loggers lead Slashdot, CNN. Day Pop only reports what we post about. (and does a fine job of it too!)

Did you notice my trail of links below where I finally got to the destination site. JOHO talks about linking weblog entries that are all related. David called it blogthreading. How?

Daypop Top 40 leads Slashdot, CNN – That should really be “Web loggers lead Slashdot, CNN. Day Pop only reports what we post about. (and does a fine job of it too!)

Did you notice my trail of links below where I finally got to the destination site. JOHO talks about linking weblog entries that are all related. David called it blogthreading. How?

EC cracks down on local-loop unbundling – will it make a difference? ha! Watch out for flying pigs! (sorry, used that one before)