Dave’s Rants

Well I’ve just spent the day importing the Blogger entries into MT. Well when I say import I mean edit categories and stuff like that. I’ve still got more to do but for now it’s OK. I’m gonna work on Templates now, cos Man this site is ugly!

Well I’m currently in the process of moving over to my lovely new shiny server and importing my Blogger posts into MT and the importing thing is a lot harder than I thought it would be!

Firstly I tried things like it said in the MT Manual but that just gave me a load of empty […]

I’ve got my server!! Woo-Hoo. Stay tuned for the new and improved site coming up soon!

I got this story which appeared in The Dallas Observer from K5
Basically a family had their children taken off them because according to the prosecutors Breastfeeding was equivalent to sex.
Their most pressing problem was the breast-feeding picture, which the indictment characterized as sexual, “to wit; actual lewd exhibition of…a portion of the female breast below […]

OK I’m definitely getting the server this week, hopefully earlier rather than later, then I’ll throw on MT and start blogging in earnest.

Well finally it looks like there is a company who will do a fair deal on DSL for Ireland. For the first time it looks like I might be able to afford DSL!! Thank you NetSource, it’s €10 more expensive than Eircon but offer better pings, a fixed IP address and most importantly of all […]

A M A Z I N G

This Salon article underlines the difference in reporting between the US and the rest of the world, perhaps it’s not that we in Europe can’t see the greater good of this war, but that we unlike our American ‘friends’ actually end up seeing the consequences.

Robert Fisk on the destruction of ancient treasures in Baghdad by the mob. Mr. Rumsfeld and others may just write this off as the ‘untidyness’ of a new democracy, but me, I think this is yet another completely unnecessary consequence of this unjust war.
They lie across the floor in tens of thousands of pieces, […]

Just watched the Matrix Trailer. You can download it here. It’s absolutely unbelievably amazing but a little warning, the download is around 100MB but is soooo worth it!