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Bring your camera phone to the pub and upload the pictures to a screen for immediate viewing by everyone in the bar! hehe.

A comparision of Europe in the 30s and now.

All I know is that all the voices of the 30s are echoing through 2003.

Via winterspeak.

jason Kottke comments on the looming war. No doubt this’ll get linked to death so I’ll just get my link in early. One of the benefits of living in GMT!

Vodafone GPRS pricing is expensive. It might be and probably is cheaper to go online via the more common high-speed charge-per-second Internet access.
It’s untrue that GPRS access is completely free. It may be free to access Vodafone services, but once you get beyond that to Google, or elsewhere, the charges mount up. It’s unfortunate, and very misleading IMO.
What can you do? Well, if access to vodafone live is free it might be possible to access email services for free. Certainly you can send emails for free until May 1st, so receiving mail from the vodafone mail server might be free too. This can’t be true if you’ve setup an external pop3 server though.
When you want to download a .sis program, or a .jar file simply mail it to yourself. It won’t always work but AFAIR I’ve installed both via email messages. You should be aware too that sending files by email increases their size by about a third.
I’ll have to setup my online billing to keep track of all these permutations to keep ahead of Vodafone methinks.

News from last year but I doubt it’s well known is it? The winners and the strong write history…

Mark Twomey found an Iraqi blog. It looks like the attack is going go ahead in the next day or so, think of Salam when you see the bombs drop..

‘Se La Fheile Phadraig inniu! Nil moran de poblacht na hEireann ag obair agus is maith an rud e sin mar ta se go hailinn amuigh!
Bain taithneamh as an la agus an Feile, ‘cuma cen ait a bhfuil tu!

Try this on your phone:
Open the calendar, and make a meeting appointment (this may affect other types of appointments too, I haven’t tested)
Set the alarm “On” and hit “Done” to save it.
Now, wait until the appointment rolls past and the alarm sounds. Edit the entry and update the time of the appointment to some time in the future.
That works fine, go down to the Alarm section and turn the alarm on again. You’ll get an error message saying “Alarm already passed!” even though the time of the appointment has been updated! It won’t let you set an alarm.

The release notes for the latest version of Samba describe how to patch your existing Samba installations to avoid a remotely exploitable hole. If it’s running, make sure you configure it to ignore connections from the Internet! (ok, it should probably be configured that way anyway, so this is a wake up call to fix those configurations!)

The Nokia 7650 Gameboy emulator, GoBoy, works really well! I played Tetris and Super Mario Bros. this morning, although you really need “zipman” to play them from the zip files. Storing 1MB rom files uncompressed is silly when they compress to less than 300KB.
Do you need some Gameboy roms to play with? Use Google, it’s easy enough to find download sites..
Must buy an infra-red port or blue tooth card too.. GPRS is bloody expensive!