Tag Archives: Holy Shmoly

Bold technology predictions for 2012 – I think that the world will be much the same as before, some people will “get” technology, most others won’t.

Equilibrium – You have to see this film.

Knetfilter looks handy.

Pat Kenny my friends, is a useless bastard. I have to admit the Late Late Show hasn’t interested me in a long time, and.. hmm, I was going to defend Pat by mentioning the excellent interview with some open source hacker guy last week but then I remembered all the simple technical blunders Pat made.. hehe

Slashdot | PostgreSQL 7.3 Released – I want to try it, I really do. *sigh* Linked is the /. discussion with further links.

I had an excellent weekend. I’m a year older now, 27. gah! Getting older!
Martina bought me the beautiful national Geographic Book of Photographs which has some amazing images! She also bought me “Scrap the collection”, a 4 CD recording of Scrap Saturday that is brilliant! I must post a couple of mp3 clips from them later. Of course, they are out of date, a lot of younger people probably won’t even remember some of the characters, but others (like Eamon Dunphy critising the weather) are still relevant. hehe.
Of course, the best bit about yesterday was the fact Martina took the day off from work, so we had the day together. We went for dinner in the Indian Palace on Princes Street. I was presented with a surprise birthday cake afterwards! Martina arranged the cake with the restaurant earlier on Saturday. I love her, she made the day!

Simon Perry looks at the Orange SPV, and as mentioned below by the Register, is not impressed.

Scott looks at the US war plans, “First, we take Baghdad”

Need To Know reports on the latest ramblings of Eric Raymond. I’m not going to repeat what NTK wrote, just visit Eric’s site for a load of..

Iain M. Banks: A Few Notes on the Culture – ooh, excellent, I’ve read every Culture related book I can find and these notes are well worth reading for fans!