January 2008
Irish Blog Awards - Best Blog Longlist 2008 →
Beaut.ie Planning Dispatch by Garry Miley The Waiting Game Bock The Robber Lozenge Nialler9 UnaRocks Fustar On The Record The Torture Garden Head Rambles English Mum in Ireland ShiteDrivers.com Twenty Major House is a Feeling Hangar Queen Scamp Homebug Annie Rhiannon North Atlantic Skyline supersimbo magooo Maman Poulet Irish Taxi Fatmammycat.com The Sigla Blog Irish...
I’m suffering from Form Rage - caused when an online form crashes when you hit submit and hasn’t stored any of your info when you go back. GRrr.
OT: Tumblr bug fix
shadowfirebird: You can now effect the order of Tumblr posts by changing the post date! Woo! This means I have a work-around for the bug reported by myself and others: that the bookmarklet posts at local time, and the dashboard posts at NY time. Nope, that doesn’t work for me either :’(
Adam Buxton » 2008 » January →
“Halfway through series 2 of Battlestar Galactica and it’s getting good now. I’ve already had death threats after calling it ‘fracking rubbish’ on the show last weekend. It’s just Mary McDonnell’s brave, sad smile I can’t handle.” That brave, sad smile kinda does my head in too, it’s constantly on her face, I’ve visions of her still smiling sadly while she picks fluff from...
shawnblog: A grizzled old man was eating in a truck stop when three Hell’s Angels bikers walked in. The first walked up to the old man and pushed his cigarette into the old man’s pie, and then took a seat at the counter. The second walked up to the old man and spit into the old man’s milk, and then he took a seat at the counter. The third walked up to the old man and turned over...
“Silly is you in a natural state, and serious is something you have to do until...”
– Mike Myers
“I’m pretty sure I got more laughs from that than any 73 minutes of intertextual...”
– lonelysandwich It’s genius because I don’t know what it means but I’m laughing anyway.
The Ultimate Student Resource List - Lifehack.org →
Unless you have money coming out of your ears, you probably won’t want to shell out the cash you’ll need to get Office, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, EndNote, and so on — even with your student discount. These free apps do the job well enough, and sometimes even better than their paid or otherwise limited alternatives.
Now that I think about it I realise that I just reblogged someones reblog of my blog. Yup I’m confused too.
Tumblr Time
(Apologies, if you don’t use tumblr then this will make no sense) and thanks to thatguyben for the sterling investigative work. thatguyben: travors: My posts are showing up on the site scattered and with the wrong timestamps - apologies, dunno why this is happening. For the record I didn’t have my 4pm snack at 11am. I noticed this yesterday on my tumblog, too. I think it has to do...
File transfers cannot be monitored say ISPs - RTÉ... →
Internet Service Providers says it is impossible for them to monitor the transfer of copyrighted material online. The comments come after U2’s manager called on ISPs to bill customers for music downloaded over the internet.
Best Personal Blog longlist 2008 - Irish Blog... →
I’m in the running for best personal blog at the Irish Blog awards - I’m pretty sure my blog isn’t “personal” enough to get anywhere but wish me luck none the less!
“A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough...”
– Herm Albright
HD-DVD fights back in the US - ENN →
HD-DVD managed to cut itself a rather larger slice of US hi-def player sales in the third week of January, according to one analyst group’s figures. But a rival market watcher still believes that HD-DVD will be dead before 2009.
My posts are showing up on the site scattered and with the wrong timestamps - apologies, dunno why this is happening. For the record I didn’t have my 4pm snack at 11am.
“Despite being threatened with a gun, stabbed three times in the head and beaten...”
– ‘I decided to die like a man’, says tycoon. Holy shit, says Steve. - the Daily Mail (via xstevemurphy) Also: “Yesterday, Irish-raised Mr Dwyer, a construction boss, faced two of the three men accused of the burglary.” Ya see? Irish. Hard as nails we are.
Holy shit, why didn’t anyone tell me Zen Habits has a tumblelog?! Cool!
Frak Off! We've Got the Best Swear Words from... →
Smeg off you frackin poodoo-head
Reader Poll: Has Your Cell Phone Replaced Your... →
The San Diego Union Tribute reports that wristwatch sales declined 25 percent between 2003 and 2005, supposedly because people use their mobile phones to tell the time—which seems extreme, but maybe we’re old-fashioned. We want to know: Has your cell phone replaced your watch? Interesting poll at lifehacker. Have to admit that up until recently I was using my phone to tell the time instead...
Instapaper →
Marco Arment of Tumblr fame revealed a fantastic new project today, Instapaper. Here’s how it works: You come across substantial news or blog articles that you want to read, but don’t have time at the moment. You need something to read while sitting on a bus, waiting in a line, or bored in front of a computer. I’ve been using it all day and have found it (like all the best tools)...
Prepare to have your minds BLOWN! →
Like all the best ideas, it’s so simple! Via Why, That’s Delightful! Oh dear god. oh dear dear god. I weep for the future.
The Cadaver Calculator - How Much is Your Body... →
Woohoo my dead body is worth $4500 Woohoo?
Del Toro doubles up for 'Hobbit' →
Guillermo del Toro is in talks to direct back-to-back installments of J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Hobbit,” which is being co-financed by New Line and MGM. Del Toro’s name was on a short list of directors who could tackle the project, one of the most anticipated literary adaptations of the past decade. An ill-chosen director for “Hobbit” could put billions of dollars...
WatchA&E by Goldfrapp
Share your iTunes music library over your home... →
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