Dave’s Rants

So I spent all week praising Google and their new cool services, but now I have to complain about getting shut out of my email account. This afternoon I went to check my account, as I’ve done a number of times today, so I went to the tab I left open in Firefox and clicked on a mail I wanted to read.

RideAccidents.com
A Catalogue of amusement ride accidents.
(tags: accident cool disney amusement thrill)

Maggots and Leeches
A story of how a woman used maggots to cure the incurable. Warning the photos are a bit gross!
(tags: gross science medicine weird cool)

Google - My Search History
An awesome new service from Google!
(tags: google search history)

MMA Tracker
A great Bittorrent Site for MMA Fights
(tags: […]

Damien pointed me in the way of Google Search History. This service has been spoken about for years but they’ve finally launched it. As you can see it keeps a record of your searches and also the pages you went to from those searches.

How cool is this! I logged on to Bloglines this evening and when I went to Neil’s site I saw this great news. Flickr have rewarded their early adopters with a doubling of their account length and two free accounts for friends. Evie now has a Pro account thanks to this.

Cracks in Brakes Prompt Amtrak to Halt Acelas
I took this train last time I was in the US, while the cost was pretty high it was way better than taking the bus.
(tags: us news acela train travel)

SimpleShare Office Storage Server 250GB
(tags: wishlist harddrive technology)

Nike PSA-610
The hard drive-based player for sporty types - I already use […]

I’ve just made my browsing experience even better! Firefox improved things over IE so much but this is just really really cool. I’ve been playing around with the GreaseMonkey extension for the past couple of days and I must say I’m very very impressed.

SF complain about Irish Government interference in North
You couldn’t make this stuff up, Sinn Féin are complaining about the Irish being involved in Northern Ireland, when they believe it’s all one country anyway.
(tags: sinnfein ira ireland northernireland)

Fan Snaps Scuffle Using Cameraphone
I wonder how many events in the future will be caught on cameraphone?
(tags: cameraphone redsox […]

Irish ISP Broadband Speed Test
Great Looking tool for checking what speed you connection is.
(tags: broadband ireland isp irish)

I’m very into tagging at the moment, with my obsession with del.icio.us and Flickr. So I saw Neil make a post talking about how he was planning on adding tagging to his posts. I was a little bored this afternoon so I went ahead and figured out how to do it.

Recently there has been a huge amount of hassle over the security at Dublin Airport. Apparently, it’s crap. Now I don’t have a clue how it took them this long to figure that out!
Richard Devlan recounts his recent experiences in Dublin Airport, but the whole thing has made me remember how in 2002 I flew […]