O’Reilly’s dumb minions

They’re still at it. Seriously lackeys, do yourselves a favour and zip it until daddy comes home. You haven’t a clue what your jobs are or how to do them.

“City Within A City”

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.

Picasa for Linux… in the US

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

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

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

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

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

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.