Dave’s Rants

Living in Ireland I hadn’t heard much about ‘Lost’ until recently but then all of a sudden I saw a ‘Lost’ board on boards.ie. At that stage I had to figure out what the fuss was about.
So I downloaded a couple of the episodes and since then I’ve got them all. Since mostly only Irish […]

Geek My Ride!
How cool is this!
(tags: car automobile technology geek book)

The table of equivalents
Replacements for Windows software in Linux
(tags: linux windows apps microsoft opensource freeware tools)

Make Poverty History Wristbands Fiasco
Apparently some of the wristbands were made in China with forced labour
(tags: mph wristbands poverty china labour)

So I finally got around to going to see Star Wars III last night. I was pretty disappointed with the last two films, so much so that I thought about not going to see this at all. In the end I did go and it was much much better than I expected. […]

Can Journalism Standards Drop Any Further?
Muppets!
(tags: irish journalism msm standards reporting media blogging irishblogs)

I’ve finally got around to moving this site to Wordpress from Movable Type. Over the next few days I’ll be fixing up the broken stuff as I find it, so if you find anything seriously broken please leave a comment in this thread. Also I’ll be changing the template from the default at some stage […]

Powerdraw
Apparently this was done using MSPaint! Incredible.
(tags: via:b3ta mspaint paint computer art deviantart cool design drawing windows pixel)

Secrets of WP Theming
I’m moving this site to Wordpress soon so this should be useful.
(tags: wordpress via:photomatt css design howto guide blog php reference web cms)

Chicago Thunderstorm
A great shot of a thunderstorm in Chicago
(tags: thunderstorm chicago weather cool photo picture)

Official BitTorrent Search Engine
Personally I think this is bringing the wrong kind of attention to the project.
(tags: bittorrent searchengine search torrent download)

Crazy Frog ‘heading for top spot’
Taking the idea of a novelty record to a new low
(tags: crazyfrog single music cd chart terrible shocking record)

Watch out for Terrorists and Their Plans
Some of these are really funny!
(tags: funny terror waronterror usa terrorists attack)

eBay Launching in Ireland
Sweet, I use the UK site all the time but having the […]

It’s been ages since I’ve made a proper post to this blog. I’ve been crazy busy with college exams, but now I only have one left so I can start posting on this site again. In terms of news my main bit of news is that I’ve got myself a job starting in September so […]