Holy Shmoly – Page 159 – Something Odd!

A few days ago, it became know …

A few days ago, it became known that a shelf company only worth about £4 won a multi-million Euro contract to build Stadium Ireland. Recently on the ILUG, someone opinioned that you’d need a company to get a leased line off Eircom, they’re not interested in private individuals, Joe suggested something else. Yout have to laugh, otherwise you might cry.. *sigh*

Connectivity in Iceland – woo. …

Connectivity in Iceland – woo… I use a 56Kbps modem, what? I can get Eircom’s “hi-speed” line? Oh, that’s only ISDN and is charged by the second! Ireland, not the E-commerce hub of Europe.

Vodafone txted me this morning …

Vodafone txted me this morning – half-price txts and international calls from Friday to Monday to celebrate St. Patricks Day! woo 🙂

When I first load the blogger …

When I first load the blogger edit interface in Netscape the stats on eth0 on my work machine goes mad. Outgoing bandwidth maxxes out at our leased line limit and incoming is about half that. Strange.

Got a GBA? Blue Roses – I just wish my hands didn’t get so sore when playing games.

I saw a demo of Halo on the XBox – it looks really nice, but nothing I hadn’t seen in Giants on my PC several months ago.

Boxes and Arrows – Usability site.

I'm just back from the dentist …

I’m just back from the dentist. 3 fillings. Part of my mouth is numb..

In better news, I plugged in my firewire card last night and hooked up my miniDV camera. I didn’t know how it would record data off a tape on the camera but in fact, you can control the playback functions of the camera from the computer! I recorded Roisin’s christening and now I’m going to add some transitions and edit it a bit in the supplied software (MGI something or other).

Web surfing gives you goldfish …

Web surfing gives you goldfish brains – I didn’t read the whole article, I wandered elsewhere.. *grin*

Essay on Google, information, …

Essay on Google, information, humans and computers.

Edit: in 2019 that blog post is long gone, but you can find it here thanks to the Wayback Machine.

How much ass does Google kick? All of it.

Remember when searching the Internet was hard? The dark days when we relied on dumb-as-sand machine intelligences, like those on the back-ends of AltaVista and Lycos, to rank the documents that matched our keywords? The grim era before Google, when searching was a spew of boolean mumbo-jumbo, NEAR this, NOT that, AND the other?

God, that sucked.

Lucky for the Internet, Google figured out the One True Way to make sense of the Internet, to defeat gamers of the system and send info-free brochureware plummeting to number n – 1 out of n results.