It’s the run up to christmas, toys are in the shops and the ads are all over the TV. I saw the following product this morning on TV and it made me cringe. See, it’s ok if your dad’s an alcoholic and beats your junkie mom because you too can have a Happy Family. Buy [...]
The BBC have done a decent write-up of Firefox, worth checking out if you’re a Fox Fan.
It’s here and we’ve done it … almost. Firefox 1.0 is officially released. If you don’t have it then go and download it for the system or locale of your choice. Which leads me to my main point. Firefox 1.0 is officially in Irish. While not yet on the official localized download page (linked above) [...]
Thought this was interesting. Since the US election and Bush’s victorification the Canadian immigration website has had record numbers of visitors! “A new record was set within hours of Bush’s acceptance speech as six times more Americans than usual surfed the site Wednesday. The overall number of 179,000 visitors was almost twice the previous one-day [...]
Computers and liquids don’t mix they tell us, and I believe them. I was acting the bollox with my son last night and knocked a full mug of tea over my laptop! And i’m not talking about some nancy little cup, when I have tea I go for the biggest mug I have, indeed the [...]
A brother and sister in Virginia, US of A have the honour in becoming the first people to be convicted of sending SPAM! Jeremy Jaynes sent hundreds of thousands of mails to AOL users and was selling ‘useless wares’ through the internet, he managed to earn more than $24 MILLION! He got a 9 year [...]
Can this be true, Aljazeera report over 100,000 Iraqi deaths since war began? “Making conservative assumptions, we think that about 100,000 excess deaths or more have happened since the 2003 invasion of Iraq,” That’s a staggering figure!
Jesus H!! A 14 year old boy in France took his dads shotgun and shot his whole family (registration: cheat) killing both his parents and his brother. Only his sister survived. The description of the killing is sickening!
Good article here by Desmond Morris who wonders what we would do if we encountered living members of the ‘hobbit’. Would we cage them for experimentation, stick them in a zoo for display or treat them as fellow humans? Such a discovery would really make us question what it is to be human. Morris concludes [...]
Neil Horan the pretty-much-ex-priest who tried to tried to wreck the marathon at this years Olympics (not to mention a grandprix at Silverstone) was up in court on sex charges but was today aquitted of the charges of indecency with a seven-year-old girl in 1991. Turns out anyway he was actually naked in the presence [...]