Lovely Beer Next Friday
Going for beer this day week to celebrate bufday, wedding anniversary and the general loveliness of beer. Drop me a line if you'll be around.
Fitted Wardrobes
This is a long shot, but do these look familiar to anyone? (Click for bigger.)
As you can see, one is missing and although I could take out the hinges and leave it as shelves, I'd prefer to have the door.
Second-Fix Sparks Wanted
I'll need an electrician familiar with ethernet cabling and termination to do a bit of work on a house in the next few weeks, anyone got any recommendations? It's a tidy-up job, shouldn't take more than a day.
First Friday Beers – May 7
Apparently the Sextant has a pig on a spit on the first Friday of every month. I don't think any further detail is required. I'll post the time when I've nailed it down. (The time. Not the pig.)
Atheist Ireland Publishes 25 Blasphemous Quotes
The site is struggling so I'm republishing on Foot.ie and here. These are the comments I added on Foot.ie:
I've no problem republishing the entire thing here, as they've given permission to. This site is on a server in Cork. I'll wait by the door. It's a retarded law and Dermot Ahern is a retarded man for enacting it.
Organised religion, in particular organised catholicism, sits in the same category. If we were around 2000 years ago, catholicism would be our scientology, Jesus Christ our L. Ron Hubbard. By idiots, for idiots.
(I know there are some religious people on this site that will be offended. I honestly don't care. You're entitled to your beliefs and I'm entitled to ridicule them. I'll continue to do so despite this ridiculous law.)
Off To Vote No. Again.
Right, I'm off to vote No to Lisbon, for the second time. Making life even easier for pols at the expense of the people they're supposed to represent, is not my idea of good policy.
Opera Unite
While I won't assign it the "reinvention of the web" tag others are giving it quite yet, Opera Unite is something new in a space where we really don't see truly fresh things very often. In a nutshell, it's a mashup of "traditional" web services, peer-to-peer, and your browser; in more detail, it's locally hosted file sharing and communications, with the following services out of the box:
- Media Sharing / Player
- File Sharing
- Web Server
- Photo Sharing
- Messaging ("Fridge")
- Chat ("Lounge")
Yes, we can install all those services on our own computers - many of us have done for years - but the social aspect makes them all much more accessible. It's a bit clunky now, but in time - particularly if they hook up with Facebook Connect or similar - you'll be able to find people and help people find you, and take complete control of your services.
I like this. I won't use it right now because I couldn't possibly move away from the browser I've created out of Firefox, but when it comes out of beta I could well switch over. I like control over my data, and Unite gives it to me.
Not that it’ll be that different…
...given my intermittent appearances around here, but I'll be AFK for a week or so, checking out Malta.
You also missed several posts over the last few days, because I updated to Feedburner and for some reason the FB plugin doesn't seem to be redirecting the feed correctly in Google Reader, and perhaps other readers. If you use the feed, please update to the following. I'll re-enable FB when I come back.
http://feeds2.feedburner.com/verbose
Click through if you haven't seen an update in a few days, I've posted a few bits and pieces.
I’m voting for myself.
Reposted from Foot.ie:
I'm lost to be honest. Who can I vote for in this election? I won't be voting for FF, because they put us where we are today; I won't be voting for the Greens, because they don't honour their promises; I won't vote for Sinn Fein, because they're populists without credible policies; I won't vote for Fine Gael, because they're Fianna Fail by another name; and the party I'm actually a member of gets up to the kind of antics mentioned above, and don't even respond to my emailed complaint. Independents? Sure they're all probably Fianna Fail anyway.
Think I'll write my own name onto the ballot card, stick a tick beside it. I think I can trust myself.
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