Tag Archives: Holy Shmoly

This guide may be useful to some. I don’t use Windows very often but some of the apps mentioned are cross-platform, and occasionally I do switch it on to play the odd game or two!
And while we’re on the issue of setting up a PC, configuring a Linux install to boot off a software RAID partition is simplicity itself in Red Hat 9! I setup a friend’s PC last night and it worked like a charm.
I should do the same at home with my ever-expanding photo archive!

In his latest column, Cringely discusses weblogs, and points out what many of us know already, that “most web logs are so boring.” Can’t argue there! zzzz, oh sorry, nodded off there.
His name dropping at the end of this column is cleverly done, he met a then governor for dinner way back in 1978. Who? Well, this is what he has to say about him:

Ronnie Reagan was a very funny guy.

Heard that joke before too. heh.
Someone posted photos from the funeral on STF. Good shots, pity about the narrow iframes.

Justin MacCarthy’s email to the ILUG this afternoon is worth repeating for wider distribution if only because it reflects the attitudes of not only the ruling party in Ireland but also hold the EU presidency. Worrying.

I had a FF councillor on my doorstep on t night who wanted to know why I wasn’t going to vote for FF. So I told him.

One of the many outrageous things he said:

“software patents are NOT a NATIONAL issue”,
” that I’m an intellectual snob for thinking the referendum was rushed”
” …”most” of those in the antiwar march WERE anti-american. “
“of course we’ll call another referendum if this one goes the wrong way – we can do what we like , we’re the government”
“but india used e-voting”
“the current e-voting machine WILL be used – its just a matter of time”
” of course I don’t trust computers that banks use”

Royston Brady in Dublin bombings controversy – Good, good. I don’t trust a politician who won’t talk to the media, especially when, as Lord Mayor of Dublin, you couldn’t keep him from popping up every which where all over the place!
I don’t trust politicians anyway…

It was one of those weekends for a lot of Irish people I think. Certainly, I was completely out of the loop news wise! I didn’t even know Ronald Reagan had died until I read Mark’s blog yesterday morning! Via Kevin, some don’t have anything good to say about him, and I’ve certainly heard a lot of negatives about him.

I can’t help but remember the British comedy, Spitting Image and their puppets and Ronnie trying to decide, “what’ll I have for breakfast?” mistaking the American nuclear missile launch codes for his breakfast menu.. heh.
RIP.

Wouldn’t you know it? On the day that Venus transits the Sun, others capture remarkable photos but it’s overcast here in Cork!
Hmm, and via Pixelbeat (who’s obviously a Window Maker fan!) comes this article on the Witty Worm. It’s kinda cool, as it fits inside one UDP packet!
Remember I did some tuning of our server at work? Well, traffic has returned to normal again, but I was told this is a quiet time in the futures market right now. As an exercise I deleted the php Accelerator cached files again and I am seeing another big jump in requests served! It might pay to remove those files on a daily basis!
I hope No-Action Jackson works in Wine! Looks kinda cute!
And if you want to download the trailer to Fahrenheit 9/11 (that guy in the last photo doesn’t look very “secret” to me does he?) you could try the following:

mencoder -o f911.wmv -oac copy -ovc copy mms://wm.mindshare.na-central.speedera.net/wm.mindshare.\
na-central/moore/fahrenheit_911_480.wmv

You need mplayer installed, but that’s as easy as apt-get install mplayer 🙂

Excellent! Another issue of The Digital Journalist is out. They promise a tribute to Ronald Reagan next month, that should be good, judging by their previous efforts. Just after browsing their TOC and looks like they have a few articles on D-Day.
I watched the BBC coverage of the commemeration on Sunday night and it was really well done. I even saw Brother Columbanus, an Irishman, dressed in his monk’s garb, salute and smile at the Queen as he marched past the viewing stand! (He was mentioned in an article in the Sunday Times, he took part in D-Day, and after the war returned to Ireland and became a brother in a monastory!)

Will lists some of the upcoming gigs and events in Cork over the next month. Loads happening, and the Cork Midsummer Festival 2004 really caught my eye! Look who’s playing! Future Kings of Spain, Fred, The Tycho Brahe, Rulers of the Planet, Rest and Stanley Super 800.
That’s a great line-up, more details on their site and I’ll see you there!

Time makes a dig against the Body Mass Index method of measuring how fat you are. I have to agree with him as it’s not a realistic scale IMO.
Anyway, I love the comment left by Aaron, it’s all gravity’s fault!

To read later: This running plan may be useful in my exercise regime. Hmm, lovely day outside, I’m going for a walk!

In this crash test a much smaller Mini^h^h^h^hMINI came off much better than a Ford pickup in a simulated 40mph crash. Look at how both cars crumpled! I wouldn’t like to be in that Ford.
Owen, you can get me a good deal on a new car then? 🙂