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While in Chicago I continued my favourite past time of browsing in book shops. I don’t remember the shop itself but it was on the corner of State and Randolph I think where I purchased a DAW Books 30th Anniversary Science Fiction Collection. I’m half way through it now and it’s a great read, Tad Williams’ short story is crazy, following the take over of the Earth by an AI, Terminator or Lawnmower man style, but through IRC! heh. Another story uses IRC too as a means of communication between ships in space, and a whole story unwinds from the script of the chat-session. Great stuff.

Mel posted before I did. His cat Zac is missing since last Saturday. They’re all worried about him, and as Mel said, Zac’s sister Zara is out of sorts because he’s missing. Cat’s are survivors though, so I think he’ll turn up!

Guide the laser and light up the bulbs! This is a clone of an ancient c64 game I loved. As pron puts it, “like the c64 the playing was important, not the graphics.”
In other news, Ireland’s tech industry goes down the tubes with the proliferation of online Flash games. heh.

As seen on Today FM this afternoon, it seems I was born in the year of the rabbit,

There were 2 terrible road accidents this morning. One of them was just outside Cahir, in Co. Tipperary. I drove past there dozens of times in the past and I was shocked to hear the news.

I hate when links die and the articles, insights, and information that once lived somewhere is lost. Via the “A Year Ago” link to the left, I came across this post again. It’s a photography article on using an external flash but it’s gone now. grrr.
I think I need to start using that DVD burner at home and archive stuff I link to. Especially tutorials, and once-off articles that I really got some value out of.

(That title was in the best Ferris Bueller tradition – ye’re too young if you don’t know what I’m talking about!) Sorry, can’t help you there, I guess I’m lucky. I’ve only caught 7 copies of the new virus that’s sweeping the world now. I presume that’ll icrease once the USA wakes up shortly!

Topix is a new news aggregator, like Google News but it has the ability it dig down to local news. If you live in the USA you can enter your location and find news from your area! It even has news from Ireland too, although I only recognised 2 or 3 of the headlines. Most of the news that’s making headlines at home isn’t represented, but hopefully it’ll improve. One major problem of course is the fact that Irish newspapers don’t provide free access to their archives which is unfortunate. (That’s not a criticism, it’s an observation, the “free lunch” of the Internet is over!)
(via John Battelle)

This is one list I’ll be going over tonight. I’ve made many of the mistakes contained within and usually I realise I’m making some of them when I run out of steam in a long run-on-sentence that isn’t going anywhere fast and is basically there to fill space. Either that or I get distracted and finish the sentence quickly without

The King of Hearts rocked The Coal Quay Bar again tonight! Guys, ye’re getting better and better! Just please warn me before you point and introduce me to the punters in the pub! 🙂