Posted by maca on April 28, 2005
Yes you read right, a 23 year old Norwegian woman has been sentenced to 9 months in jail for raping a man. Seemingly he fell asleep on the couch in the woman’s apartment but woke up a short time later to find the woman giving him oral sex, which constitutes rape in Norway. “The man [...]
Posted by maca on April 27, 2005
You really know you’re an absolute lazy basket when it pains you to simply click on a flippin browser tab. I made the switch yesterday from one browser tab extension (tabbrowser preferences) to another (tab mix) which has some pretty cool new functions but I lost the tab-switching-on-mouseover functionality so now I have to actually [...]
Posted by maca on April 27, 2005
We’ve been stuck in a time warp with IE6 for yonks, the only updates have been to fix a few of the gazillion fucking security holes in the web browser-slash-windows browser. IE7 will probably be released as part of Longhorn, M$’s latest attempt at a secure stable OS, and as well as better security (security-focused [...]
Posted by maca on April 26, 2005
Crap, I forgot this was on yesterday! Longford Town did the business again last night with a 1-0 home victory against Glentoran, while Shels took the points in their away game to Portadown. That’s revenge so for Longford who lost their opening cup game 2-1 away to Glentoran in March. Next up for Longford is [...]
Posted by maca on April 25, 2005
…eventually. Been on holidays all last week, except Monday when I had to go to Estonia on business. I’ve also been fucked with the flu for the past week … which makes my first post of the week somewhat relevant- via Balrog I found this “death test” which tries to estimate when you will die, [...]
Posted by maca on April 19, 2005
Just noticed that Ireland finally has some coverage in Google Maps. Ok, it’s very limited at this stage and there is no satellite coverage but it’s still good to see us on the map, so to speak. Hopefully they’ll add some more detail, in the mean time i’ll have a play with it and see [...]
Posted by maca on April 16, 2005
Well, as you know, and i’ve reminded you here, GAA congress were meeting today, the main issue under discussion was of course Rule 42. The members voted 165 to 153 in favour of holding a secret ballot which I would have thought was a bad idea. Anyway the motion was passed 227 to 93, rule [...]
Posted by maca on April 15, 2005
Well, I heard from a little birdy that the European county has voted overwhelmingly in favour of changing Rule 42. The matter will be decided tonight so fingers crossed, it’s a very important decision for the GAA, tomorrow they’ll either be bigots or heroes. Hopefully the latter. Here’s a full breakdown of the votes so [...]
Posted by maca on April 14, 2005
A man in Kilkenny paid €700 in cash for a new laptop [registration cheat] to a guy who approached him on the street. When he opened the box, after the vendor had scarpered of course, all he found in the box were 4 litres of milk. My first thoughts on reading this was “you absolute [...]
Posted by maca on April 13, 2005
I’ve been playing around with Google maps, what a bloody great application, fantastic altogether (cept that it’s just for the US, although you can get some satellite pics of the rest of the world). I’ll post some pics below (a little later, no FTP access here) to show what it can do. Searching city routes [...]