Dave’s Rants

Feel The Warmth Of His Noodly Appendages
I just can resist another Flying Spaghetti Monster post!
(tags: fsm flyingspahettimonster god intelligentdesign evolution teaching science creationism)

I just saw this on Matt’s site and just quickly implemented it there. It’s the simplest thing in the world and is described well on the Google Help page. Only time will tell if it improves things here, but one can only try.
So if you’re stealing my code (who knows why you’d do that) and […]

My Crowded System Tray on Flickr
(tags: flickr systemtray windows applications)

50% Of Pubs in Cork Gone
Well this makes me more in favour of deregulation!
(tags: cork pubs beer ireland drinking alcohol irishblogs)

Dogpile - SearchSpy
See what depraved things others are looking for!
(tags: dogpile search spy)

Catching a Mobile Phone Thief
Great story about catching the guy who stole your phone
(tags: phone mobile thief crime justice via:davidsmalley)

DELL SUPER COMPUTER EIGHT […]

I’ve always been fascinated by extreme weather, Thunderstorms, Tornadoes, Hurricanes etc. Most of the fascination probably comes from the fact that in Ireland we don’t get bad weather, people still speak about the storm we had Christmas Eve in 1997 as if it was the worst thing to hit the country and the winds that […]

Well not quite but that’s what Mary Leland would have you believe from reading her article in the Sunday Independent today. Now it’s not like Mary Leland is even doing an original article because if you search on Google you get loads of results from the Guardian etc, about protests in the UK and even […]

During the week I wrote about the excellent fact checking Sarah Carey did illustrating that Eddie Hobbs is capable of making assertions that may be lies. Now it’s the turn of the journalists reporting on Eddie to be shown up.
Every Sunday I get up early to read the Sunday Independent and the Sunday Times, the […]

Death by PowerPoint
Loads of tips on how to make a good Powerpoint Presentation
(tags: presentation powerpoint conference via:davidsmalley)

Everyone hates rining technical support helplines because usually you hit a lot of buttons and rarely get your problem solved. Since I’m starting my new job on Monday I spent last week trying to cross things off my todo list and many of them involved rining help desks/tech support lines. So I jotted down some […]

I haven’t seen Google present search results like this before this morning but since then I’ve seen it a number of times. I’m unsure what exactly are the criteria Google uses to decided whether to do this or not, or whether it’s particularly useful or not but there you go anyway!
Here’s another example of a […]