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“City Within A City”

27/05/2006

Went into the Cork Vision Centre today on North Main Street and saw the 1:500 scale model of Cork, well worth a look. Wouldn’t fancy the art in there at the moment, but each to their own.

City Within A City

In an Amazon-like oddity, Google have released a version of their image organiser, Picasa, for Linux. But the download page is apparently only available from within the United States! What’s that about? Here’s the digg, view the comments for workarounds:

Google Releases Picasa For Linux:

Goggle is further embracing the open-source community by developing one of their most popular applications, the Picasa picture organizer, for the Linux platform. Way to go Google!

O’Reilly Responds

26/05/2006

Well, apparently he’s on holiday, but the person that writes his blog for him responded for him. A little remorse, but a weak (imho useless) response. Fiver says O’Reilly’s on the way to a computer right now. I hope he’s got his apologisin’ hat on.

Web 2.0 Deprecated

25/05/2006

Please refer to it as Web 2.1 from this point forward, just to annoy Tim O’Reilly’s lawyers.

Wasn’t Tim the one that took Jeff Bezos up on Amazon’s 1-Click patent? Asshole.

And will I be sued now for using the term here?

SmackBook Pro

25/05/2006

Switch desktops by tapping the side of your (motion-sensor fitted) machine. Sounds like fun until you start getting frustrated while writing an email or reading a blog post. :)

Official: Gambling A Mug’s Game

24/05/2006

And I’m the mug. Boyle Sports had a “we’ll match your deposit” offer a while back, so I decided to fire in a tenner and play the geegees with tips from the Horse Racing forum on Boards.ie as my sole point of reference, as a sort of experiment.

Long story short, I blew my last €7.36 today on a long shot, and the experiment is a resounding failure. Fun though.

Love the Daddy, at his expense

24/05/2006

According to Snopes, more collect phone calls are made in the US on Father’s Day than on any other day of the year. What horrible people. Be interesting to see relevant figures for Europe or Ireland though.

Muckross Greenhouse

23/05/2006

Kerry this weekend. Lots of photos to come, but this is one of my favourites.

Oirish Signs

19/05/2006

Photo taken at the beach in Garryvoe a couple weeks ago, just found it. Sorry about the quality, all I had with me was my phone. The sign says Toilets. Note the direction.

ALLOFMP3 Offline

15/05/2006

…for maintenance according to Google, since the 13th according to Wikipedia, forever according to Digg (apparently they stopped taking payments two days ago, but this wouldn’t be the first time). Interesting. I don’t use it very much, but I’d miss it if it went. And I’m constantly surprised at it’s continued existence…