Dave’s Rants

Top of my list of most hated ads ever has to the the Crazy Frog ringtone ad. Nothing comes close in terms of annoyance. I’ve never seen something ellicit so much disgust from people, I certainly can’t remember Boards.ie being so outraged over anything! It even spawned a Petition.
Well now it appears I’ve become part […]

World Jump Day
In 15 months, perhaps we’ll have solved the global warming problem
(categories: world jump months globalwarming)

GeoURL
The Very Cool GeoURL is back!
(categories: geourl cool location geography blog)

The Provisional IRA, RIP
The Birth in the Short Strand and The Death in the Short Strand
(categories: ira sinnfein war terrorist ireland belfast)

Flickr + Yahoo Deal Rumored
I’d much prefer if Google bought it if anyone is going to. I’d be terrified that it’d be rebranded as photos.yahoo.com if Yahoo bought it
(categories: yahoo flickr google photos)

Beatallica.org shut down
Its funny, I only bothered to download the songs because they’re trying to ban them!
(categories: beatallica metallica thebeatles mp3 download song […]

Basically this is another way of looking at the data in my Audioscrobbler profile. You can see the current data in my Last.fm profile.
There’s some ‘dubious’ material in there but mostly it’s good

I noticed that Google seemed to be tracking what links I was clicking earlier on today but thought I was going insane. I decided that it must have been like that the whole time, but when I did a search on Google Ireland just there I noticed it wasn’t monitoring the clicks which makes me […]

Photos Taken As Tsunami Approached
Facinating and terrifying photos
(categories: tsunami photos)

boards.ie: Screwed by a driving tester!
Shows just how great a place Cork is to do your driving test
(categories: drivingtest boards.ie cork)

MP3 V Wav
Possibly the best post ever in the history of Boards.ie
(categories: boards.ie mp3 audio funny)

Code for Fighting Google AutoLink
I’ll be using this on all my pages if Google continue with this toolbar ‘feature’
(categories: google […]

BitFontMaker 0.1
An online tool for making fonts, looks pretty good.
(categories: font online)

Apple Community Speaks Out Against Apple’s Over Zealous Legal Department
(categories: apple legal mac sue)

Unsolved Mysteries
One of the best AskMeFi threads I’ve read in ages
(categories: mystery askmefi mefi)

Goodbye AllofMP3?
I really hope not! If iTunes got rid of the DRM I’d be happy to move to […]

Google Ireland Zeitgeist
(categories: ireland zeitgeist google)

Kubrickr
A pretty cool application for making images for the top of the default Wordpress client. With me moving a lot of stuff to Wordpress this could be very useful!
(categories: wordpress kubrick image creativecommons flickr)

‘Pack ice’ suggests frozen sea on Mars
More evidence for current life on Mars
(categories: mars frozen life extra-terrestrial […]