Tag Archives: Holy Shmoly

Rox rocks! It’s very fast and simple to use. KDE looks nicer but on my machine using it is like treacle.

Woo, I’ve built a class that’ll allow me to call my PHP classes on remote servers. It’s something like XML-RPC but a lot simpler and only of use with my own code. It’s going to be handy for a number of projects I have coming up though!

There’s going to be a referendum on abortion here in Ireland in a few weeks time and the posters have already started to appear on lamp posts.
Unfortunately, they all seem to say the same thing:
“Vote for the lives of women and unborn children, vote YES!”
“Vote for the lives of women and unborn children, vote NO!”

It’s rather confusing. AFAIK, if the vote goes one way, the right for a woman to have an abortion will be put into the constitution, otherwise, women will have to go to the courts to get an abortion.
The taoiseach is refusing to debate the issue with other party leaders, and he appears to be running scared if comentators are to be believed! Fine Gael are pulling all the stops out on this, oh, and it happens to be an election year too! Fancy that eh?

Here’s one of the groups campaigning: Pro life

The DVD player is amazing! Well, the speakers that came along with it add a lot to the atmosphere! It took a while to get DTS working (set the digital output to raw so the amp could interpret it) but the results were well worth the trouble. I even managed to get tv channels running through the speakers. It was really strange watching “The Weakest Link” in stereo..

It’s been a while since I had to install Apache with SSL support, but this article should help when I have to do it again.

‘PO0’ number plates cause a stink

‘PO0’ number plates cause a stink

Hundreds of licence plates have been recalled because they begin with “PO0”.

The DVLA plates have ‘PO’ for Preston, which is then followed by the year ’02’.

The plates had already been delivered to dealerships in Lancashire.

DVLA spokesman Gareth Hughes told the Blackpool Gazette they had been withdrawn following objections from members of the public and the motor trade.

He said: “The agency has always withheld registration marks with combinations of letters that are likely to cause widespread offence. These are normally considered to be potentially obscene or offensive to the general population.”

Stuart Dempsey, a salesman at Squires Gate Motors in Blackpool, says the new plates had caused a stir when they first arrived.

He added: “We haven’t had a problem with them. People have had a laugh about it and see them as more than a novelty than anything else.”

The first two letters on most registration plates issued in the Fylde area are P for Preston, followed by a random selection from A through to T.

The two numbers indicate the period the vehicle was first registered, 02 for March to September 2002 followed by 52 for the second half of the year.

Just bought a DVD+Speakers combo off Scan today.

The Irish Government is encouraging people to improve the environment. More info at The 10 Steps.

Right to live overrides right to smoke. Restaurateurs and publicans are worried about a smoking ban. However, the experience of such bans in America suggests that business increases when people do not have to endure passive smoking. . .

I’m in the mood to download movies. Pity I only have a modem connection. I’ll post links to what I find here:
Iceland
Pocket Movies

Remember Pong? Here’s the Flash movie!