Dave’s Rants

Just Letters
A browser based multi-user Flash game
(tags: fun cool game)

Firefox: Blazing a Trail to 50,000,000
I started using Mozilla back about 3 years ago and now Mozilla’s child, Firefox has reached 50,000,000 downloads
(tags: firefox download browser spreadfirefox)

Iraq sandstorm
Fantastic shots of a sandstorm in Iraq
(tags: iraq weather sandstorm nature)

GoogSpy
Adwords Competitor Research by Velocityscape
(tags: advertising google tool search adwords)

AdMoolah
Share and Compare Website Advertising Earnings
(tags: google adsense keywords earn money)

Adsense Notifier For Firefox
Brilliant Firefox extension, shows me all my totals in my Google statusbar.
(tags: adsense extension firefox google)

Bertie’s Blog
Our Taoiseach’s Blog
(tags: blog irishblogs ireland bertieahern politics humour)

Channel 4 News reveals legal advice on Iraq War
And […]

New Episode Of Family Guy
Apparently its brilliant! Haven’t watched it yet though.
(tags: familyguy comedy cartoon humour bittorrent)

Why Geeks and Nerds Are Worth It…
(tags: geeks nerds funny interesting)

I was browsing over on Planet Potato today, and I stumbled on to the post about RateMyTeachers.ie. Much of the thought expressed is what I felt myself and what I read elsewhere, but at the end it got interesting when a certain ‘h m’, made a post insinuating a number of details about the site. I’ve reposted the comment below.

Last week, Flickr offered me two Pro accounts to give away. I gave one to Evie, but that left one more, and the Capitalist in me has decided to sell it on eBay. Mainly because I have never used eBay, not so much because I really want the �5 or whatever!

With Neil picking up on my mention of Bittorrent yesterday. I decided to do a little post on my Bittorrent + RSS setup.

Damien pointed me in the direction of the URLTrends website. This is a way of getting a shedload of statistics about your site, pagerank, Alexa Rank, everything is there! It’s a great tool. I’ve posted my statistics below.

Trend Report For: http://davesrants.com
Current Rankings:

PageRank: 5/10
Alexa Rank: 2,514,145
Incoming Google Links: 101
Incoming Yahoo Links: 462
Incoming MSN Links: 160
Incoming Alexa […]

Well it’s not quite Monday anymore but since I’m studying like crazy for my exams that start next week I’m going to make allowances. For some reason there’s been a lot of commentary on the Irish blogs today about things that I have differing views on, so I’m going to vent on them a bit here.

Google Images Guessing Game
Good fun, I got 202 on my first go.
(tags: cool flash google images game fun)

EVDO StompBox Project
A 3G Mobile Based WiFi Base Station. Also note how unlimited data costs $80 in the US, but in Ireland 500MB costs €242!!!
(tags: broadband car clever computer diy fun wifi)

learn UNIX in 10 minutes
A good cheat sheet!
(tags: linux unix cheatsheet guide)