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Fri, 07 Dec 2007

Whoa!!!111 innnnertubes ahoy!!!!111</aol>

http://whateveresque.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=495

The LOLCreashun Thread - a lolcats response to the Creation Museum. Hahahahahahahaha ;-)

Geo-Google-0.05

A really useful perl module for making Google maps mashups easier. I'd better get in gear and write an equivalent for Open Streetmap.

Tue, 13 Nov 2007

www.isitchristmas.com

Is it Christmas?

www.spoofedpacket.net

A useful checklist for the many people who have come up with new and ingenious, though inherently flawed, methods for combatting spam. Tick the boxes as applicable and post to your favourite forum. An oldie, but a goodie :-)

Fri, 10 Aug 2007

If you're happy and you know it, click my links... ;-)

http://stage6.divx.com/Refuse-Life/image/175990/

The syntax error song...

http://www.mod.uk/NR/rdonlyres/821677DF-C671-4B75-BC69-A1D20EE2823A/0/dumb_questions_693x984.jpg

Don't be afraid to ask dumb questions; they're easier to handle than dumb mistakes.

Tue, 07 Aug 2007

http://www.theonion.com/content/news/activision_reports_sluggish_sales

I'm a big fan of Guitar Hero - as are many others... So I guess it's about time The Onion started ripping the piss ;-)

http://www.toothpastefordinner.com/071407/spreadsheet-attack.gif

Spreadsheet attack!!!

Tue, 12 Jun 2007

Links fresh from the interweb...

http://www.wellingtongrey.net/miscellanea/

The New Physics Exam, an appropriate (kind of) link given that thousands of students in Ireland are currently sitting their Leaving Cert. and Junior Cert. exams.

http://www.the-elements.co.uk/

A band in Cambridge featuring two great friends of mine. Rocking!

http://www.questionablecontent.net/

A whole new webcomic that someone pointed me at, due to my (alleged) obsession with lolcats, lolpresidents and lolbots. Yay!

Thu, 05 Apr 2007

http://www.icanhascheezburger.com/

I can has cheezburger! O Rly?!? Yeh! RLY! With extra kittens... My favourite thus far is GANKED... it made me laugh.

http://www.xkcd.com/

A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language. It makes me laugh on a regular basis.

Avast... there be some sort of Oracle off teh starboard bow...
FOr your delight and delectation, here's a collection of useful (and not quite so useful) links regarding the Oracle database platform.

http://www.linux.com/howtos/Oracle-7-HOWTO.shtml

Oracle 7.3 Database HOWTO - Somewhat dated, but provides a reasonably good introduction to how Oracle fits together.

http://www.puschitz.com/TuningLinuxForOracle.shtml

Some tips on tuning Oracle.

Fri, 05 Jan 2007

Cad a dhéanaimíd feasta gan adhmaid?...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,1983434,00.html

Only in Ireland could there be so much contempt and obstruciveness towards someone making an effort to speak our native tongue. Irish is now an official language of the European Union, so b'fhéidir go mbeidh beagáinín níos mó stró déanta chun é a labhairt. Níl mo chuid Ghaeilge comh maith is a bhí, ach níl sé ach teanga eile nach bhfuil mé in ann focail a litriú (nó a chlóscríobh.) ;-)

http://www.csis.ul.ie/focloir/default.HTM

Foclóir Gaeilge atá le fáil ar an net.

http://www.crannog.ie/focloir.htm

Foclóir Béarla-Gaeilge atá le fáil saor in aisce freisin.

Sun, 22 Oct 2006

They just fell off t'internet yer honour... honest...

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/1004061iggypop1.html

For those of you who have ever had the privilege of having to deal with the tech specs and riders provided by various bands, musicians and artistes: here's an Iggy Pop concert rider. Thanks to Matt for pointing this out to me on the web - it made me laugh :-)

Tue, 25 Jul 2006

Musical font goodness from the internet

http://www.icogitate.com/%7Eergosum/fonts/music-fonts2.htm

Whether writing out guitar chords or bongo lines, this collection of free fonts for music notation have been a useful addition to my resources for typesetting music.

http://lilypond.org/web/

Lilypond is a free, but very powerful, musical notation tool - capable of converting ASCII text files to beautiful, typeset musical notation. I use it for typesetting traditional tunes that I'm working on.

http://music.signal2noise.co.uk/trad/

Some of the traditional music tunes I've typeset with Lilypond.

Tue, 27 Jun 2006

It is the way of things... (from poisonedminds.com)

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Tue, 18 Apr 2006

In the tradition of not actually providing any useful material whatsoever, here's another collection of vastly amusing - yet completely content free, or at least of limited use - links. Yay me!

http://www.livingstonmontana.com/access/dan/191magicswitch.html

I was recently reminded of the Magic / More Magic switch located on the MIT campus - an amusing story and well worth a read.

http://www.ddj.com/184403996

I've not used VB for a while, though I did start my commercial career as a software developer with VB3 and worked right through to VB6 (when I took the opportunity to shift to *NIX platforms.) It's always nice to have a technical article that has me smiling and nodding in agreement while reading through it :-)

http://stabbers.truth.posiweb.net/stabbers/html/derekandclive.htm

Derek and Clive (Peter Cook and Dudley Moore) were mentioned on a program last night as having been censored during the 80's in Britain. Of course, I had to have a look to see what the fuss was about. The link has some recordings and some scripts (with outtakes and cuts marked) which are excessively vulgar, but very very funny.

Fri, 14 Apr 2006

Raindrops and roses and whiskers on kittens, ... yadda, yadda, yadda... there are a few of my favourite links:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6176491654107670145

Mkae sure you have the 12 minutes required to watch every single one of the creations in this video. Some are simple, some must have taken many hours to work out and set up just right - all are tremendously entertaining.

Thu, 13 Apr 2006

Far more important Creme Egg links (from my sister, who thinks I need to be edumacated regarding the delicious yumminess of gooey candy treats.)

http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/j0nnyspence/egg/index.html

How to make a giant creme egg.

http://shmivejournal.livejournal.com/125746.html

How to make a Cadbury's Creme Egg cake.

Wed, 12 Apr 2006

http://x-entertainment.com/articles/0771/

A tribute to the humble Cadbury's Creme Egg. My sister has long been a leading experimental scientist, testing the limits of what can, and cannot, be done with these little pieces of heaven... Wait - isn't that Fry's Chocolate Creme? - Who cares... Mmmmm , so delicious.../dd>

http://www.c-wilkie.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/jokes/pages/badgers_arse.html

This made me laugh so I've put it here to amuse Sinéad specifically, and all you lot generally. Be amused! Do it! I insist on amusement.

http://www.catteacorner.com/dragosteadintei.htm

Translated lyrics for the Numa Numa Song that has swept through the internet like a webcam-tastic breath of (not so?) fresh air... or something.... definitely something.

Fri, 07 Apr 2006

Bringing the most 'unique' parts of the internet to you... or something... definitely something...

http://www.ceilingcat.com/

Thanks to Ruari for that. I really don't know what this would ever be useful for, but if I ever find out, I now know where to find a ceiling cat.

Tue, 28 Feb 2006

Stuff what fell off the internet and right into me pocket guv'nor - honest it did...

http://osdl.org/newsroom/studies/EMA

For rather a long time, the dubious statistic of TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) has been used by Microsoft to demonstrate that their solutions are cheaper to own and run. This survey is one of the latest that would appear to indicate otherwise.

http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~huskerdu/riot/secretweapon0rt.jpg

In keeping with the Chuck Norris theme of yesterday... and the day before... and the week before that... etc. In a way, it's good to see Dublin people already laughing at what was a disgraceful carry-on in Dublin over the weekend.

http://appdev.guildglobal.ie/joke/it-wasnt-me-hofficer.jpg

There's always someone who has to take the bounds of comedy just one little step too far, isn't there? ;-)

http://www.daraghmcg.org/2006/02/28/pat-kenny-caught-out/

It's not often I link to other people's blogs - but this observation by our very own DjMagra as he listened to Pat Kenny this afternoon had me in stitches :-)

http://www.creativeireland.com/forum/ubb/Forum7/HTML/008122.html

And the comedy re the Dublin roits just keeps on coming. Some excellent photo-shopping going on here. Enjoy.

Things people pointed me at that I thought were useful...

http://www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/looplinux/rip/

Recovery Is Possible Linux resuce system. I've managed to recover a number of systems from various states of brokenness using Linux distros that boot from CD/floppy/USB key; from Damn Small Linux to knoppix, the ability to get a system up and running if the CPU and RAM work is invaluable for diagnosing other components. This RIP distro includes some useful tools for diagnosing and fixing problems.

http://planet.irishblogs.info/

An aggregator for Irish bloggers and their blogs. As something of a faux Irish person myself, I found myself getting sucked in and spending more time reading than I'd wanted to.

http://www.thesession.org/

If you play Irish music, or just have an interest in it, this site seems to be a growing portal to Irish traditional music, song and styles. The fora are well populated and consist of largely productive (or blatantly humurous and light-hearted) debate. The signal to noise ratio is high - long may it continue. The whole site is a testament how the internet can create and sustain a community. (Can you tell I'm pleased with this website? ;-) )

http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi

Yet another version control / management system. This has a numebr of features that mean it's not likely to go away very soon though - http and ssh sync protocols, compression of the dataset, distributed running inherent in the design model, extensible in a controlled fashion with user hooks, etc. This could be the version control system for me (or you!) - I'll write more on this as I get more time testing and using it in anger.

Thu, 16 Feb 2006

Stuff other people found on the internet and thought they should show to me, honest ;-)

http://www.shartwell.freeserve.co.uk/humor-site/medical-acronyms.htm

A dictionary of medical slang, doctors' slang and medical acronyms - some are very very comedy. Yes, I've been watching Scrubs lately...

http://www.toothpastefordinner.com/092105/someone-with-a-different-opinion.gif

Someone on the internet may have a different opinion to you. I don't know who put this up, but it made me laugh. This is probably a link I'll just keep on sharing with people, as the need arises. It goes nicely with the waaahmbulance link.

http://www.greenmanhumming.com/html/zoukornaments/

I've slipped a few days behind in my whistle practice, due to being away for two weeks. This site gave me a few ideas about ornamentation and may inspire me to break out and tune up my mandolin this evening.

Wed, 15 Feb 2006

Yet more joyous joys of the internet generation...

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c100/lucky13romero/smoking8.gif

how excellent - made me laugh... but only because it's (basically) true.

http://www.badadverts.co.uk/ListReview.php?ID=102

I was introduced to the Branston Beans Ad at lunch with a colleague. His rant was surprisingly close to that presented on the badadverts website. This is a truly excellent review of a surprisingly bad ad.

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