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Now, this looks like a nice music player. dpreview has a concise feature list. As well as mp3 files it also plays ogg files, and it can display jpegs, and I could plug my camera into it and it’ll make coffee while I watch tv (no, only joking about the last bit!)
It’s not out yet AFAICT but I might be able to afford one in a few months time if reviews prove positive!
Later… ipodyourbmw.com – Owen mentioned this last night, I’d forgotten it, but Stewie reminded me a few minutes ago. And the The Register has more in a slightly easier format to read.

On the day that publicans report a 7m pint drop in beverage consumption, I see that Will was in Galway at the weekend and had a great time!

The pubs were packed, but on the summer’s day, the streets were packed with the over spill, all chatting away.
It’s the smoking ban that did it!
Before, the pubs would be packed, and the merriment would all be out of sight behind darkened doors.

Don’t they know the customer is always right? A vast majority of Irish people don’t smoke, it’s the price of the pint that’s driving people away!

Here’s an interesting article on the the current trend of free advertising that brand name clothes are. I wonder if I can dig up the excellent article from the Sunday Times about this. Must look later.

Brands are nothing more than “stories attached to objects,” says James Twitchell, a professor of English at the University of Florida who has written widely about branding as a cultural phenomenon. “Sometimes we just go through periods where we’ve heard the story too much,” he says. “Or we’re hearing the story being told by too many people.”

Now, everyone with a Burberry handbag should repeat after me, “We are induvidhuals! We have a distinct style and taste in clothes! Baah! Baah!”

More to be found on nologo.org.

Rymus picks up on the story of a young Cork girl who’se gone missing. I heard her mother talking on the radio earlier and they’re obviously very worried about her.

Good weekend all?
We went to the Half Moon on Friday night for the midSummer Festival and a great night it was too! Fred and other bands were playing, and weren’t disappointed! Buy the Echo on Thursday, or at least take a look through it, there may well be a photo of Jacinta, me and Joe in there somewhere!
Pity the Cube was so quiet later, but the Old Oak was buzzing even if some lad took a shine to me for some reason!

Short and sweet.. Does anyone still want a Gmail invite? I’ve a few spare. Leave a comment below.
Later… but if you have a Hotmail account you may not receive the invitation! Damn, and I sent Jacinta one this morning!

How a Man Lives

This is not a tale about how a man happened to die in Swope Park on a Sunday afternoon back when Taft was President. This is a story for any year about how a man … lives.

I’m researching VOIP options and Vonage looks rather promising as I haven’t a clue what acronyms like SIP and NAPTR stand for, but SIPthat.com is a “blog on SIP, VoIP, IP Telephony and all that is IP communications” and has already increased my knowledge somewhat.
Thankfully murble on #linux pointed me at FWD which looks very promising!

This virus, called EPOC.Cabir is a “proof of concept” virus.

It repeatedly sends itself to the first Bluetooth-enabled device that it can find, regardless of the type of device (ie even a Bluetooth-enabled printer will be attacked if it is within range).

I’m glad I have bluetooth turned off on my Nokia 7650!

Hehe. I wish I had heard this story before the election on Friday! Royston likes to scrawl his name on wooden desks! Very impressive trait in a political candidate! He, and many in Fianna Fail didn’t do too well in the election so it’s just as well I think.
Pity the referendum passed. Now that the government can control who gets Irish citizenship it’s only a matter of time before extremists come into power and decide a citizen has to be white, fluent in Irish and can recite the names of the 1916 leaders…