The organisers of last weekend’s loyalist hate fest rally in Belfast are considering brining their hate to Dublin. Ye can fuck off!

Posting has been slow this past week, as have been my responses to your comments, apologies. A lack of energy and motivation is the problem, it’s probably brought on by the coming of winter. I hate winter, especially here, it’s bloody cold, uncomfortable and a tad depressing. We had our first snow here last week [...]

How stuff works article on “How Zombies work“

the numbers (na hUimhreacha): explanations

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 [...]

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” [...]

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 [...]

I’ve just downloaded a new browser called Flock, it’s basically a Firefox clone (btw Firefox just hit the 100,000,000 downloads mark yesterday!) but with a few new features. You have to sign up to their mailing list to get the current version, “0.5pre developer snapshot”, but they should release a public version soon. It looks [...]

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 [...]

This is just an idea i’m testing, using the blog to store bookmarks with a short comment thereby sharing said bookmarks with others … or sumthin like that.