Posted by maca on November 3, 2005
JL reckons George Burley is the man to take over as manager of the Rep.Ireland soccer team. Burley left Hearts quite recently due to “irreconcilable differences” with the club board. A number of sites such as World Cup Latest and Eleven-a-side now claim Burley is the firm favourite to take over the job. To be [...]
Posted by maca on November 3, 2005
Firefox 1.5 RC1 has been released this week, RC2 should be coming in another 8 days or so and should be pretty much the same as the 1.5 final release. [Download RC1] Here’s a good Firefox extension I came across this morning, IE Tab, it allows you to open pages within Firefox using the IE [...]
Posted by maca on November 1, 2005
Beneres. Beneres de deneres. Beneres de deneres de canto mui coolio, una prima dente fundo traffico ab lango del tono, del tono tono. Abla la Bertie (Ar Solo d’Irlandaize) la mucho dinero de “Transport 21″, cé de cè é è pyla de shi’ito Luas morte tragedi. Don krakatoa en kindy dinky me a cheez puff [...]
Posted by maca on October 31, 2005
The organisers of last weekend’s loyalist hate fest rally in Belfast are considering brining their hate to Dublin. Ye can fuck off!
Posted by maca on October 29, 2005
How stuff works article on “How Zombies work“
Posted by maca on October 27, 2005
the numbers (na hUimhreacha): explanations
Posted by maca on October 25, 2005
I’m saddened to read of the death of Rosa Parks who died at her home in Detroit, Michigan last night at the age of 92. Besides the Rev Martin Luther King Jr. Rosa Parks must be the most famous person of the American civil rights era, indeed she’s often known as “The Mother of the [...]
Posted by maca on October 21, 2005
This is ridiculous. A small US company called Scientigo own two patents which cover the transfer of data in “neutral forms” claim that the data-formatting standard XML infringes on their patents! And of course their master plan is to collect royalties from software companies and large organisations which use XML. EVERYBODY uses XML! “Patent troll” [...]
Posted by maca on October 21, 2005
I see that Samsung Mobile is launching in Ireland. They are entering the market with 5 phone models; the ZV10(?), E350, E530, Z500 and the X480. Nice looking phones I reckon. The may be world #3 but their flip phones are generally way ahead of Nokia’s who have turned out some really awful stuff like [...]
Posted by maca on October 19, 2005
I love having a fast net connection, it makes life so much easier if you’re maintaining websites, into heavy surfing or, as in my case, searching for animal porn. At home I have a 1Mb connection (Eur30 muntly) which I consider to be decent-ish, I couldn’t imagine working with anything slower. At work here I [...]