Dave’s Rants

Yahoo! Instant Search
I like this a lot, seems to be more useful than the Google `I’m feeling lucky’ button.
(tags: via:yahoosearchblog google yahoo search instant cool technology)

The Engadget Interview: Michael Robertson, CEO of SIPphone
Interesting interview. I’d love if everyone went with SIP compatible VOIP like this but with Skype getting bought by eBay it doesn’t look […]

2.5 Gigapixel Image
(tags: via:dvorak image picture photo photography gigapixel pixel cool)

Microsoft Office 12’s Radical New Look
Looks a bit ‘fluffy’ but that’s not to say it won’t be better. I like the XP start menu and I’m glad I made the switch others never even tried.
(tags: office microsoft via:dvorak windows xp startmenu software ui)

Google today launched their long awaited blog search tool. The tool can be found at http://google.com/blogsearch. Google defines blogs as sites that use RSS and other structured feeds and update content on a regular basis. Since they only seem to have started indexing in June only content since June will appear in the index.
A Google […]

Zeigarnik effect
I defintely notice this myself. This is the main reason I’ve taken up a lot of the ideas outlined in ‘Getting Things Done’
(tags: gtd via:43folders zeigarnik psychology interesting)

The “Work Blind” Curtain
(tags: work cubicle curtain dibert funny via:waxy)

Last week I read in the Cork Irish Examiner that Ryanair were going to be starting a Cork-Dublin route. Ryanair denied this at the time but the information on the service had started to show up on the online timetables on Cork Airport website.
Today it was confirmed that starting in November Ryanair would be flying […]

Daily Show Clips
Loads of torrent files of The Daily Show. Plenty of extremely funny Hurricane Katrina stuff. We’ll be able to watch the show every evening soon when Channel 4 start to show it.
(tags: hurricane dailyshow video katrina via:waxy)

How to serve your iTunes library to your Sony PSP using WiFi
Looks pretty cool but you need […]

This is how you definitely don’t want to launch your website. Obviously the expected launch date is wrong but besides that there is no way for me to know when it’s going to be launched. 37Signals are always good at keeping you aware of when their new site is going to launch as you can […]

With all the Eddie Hobbs related stuff in the media you can’t help but watch the prices you are paying at the moment, but what I’ve noticed is that people will say something is a rip-off and that Irish people are being ripped off without any basis in fact. Take for example petrol, Ireland has […]

Recently I criticised the Irish Times for a number of things but this time I’m here to praise them, well kinda. As you may know the Irish Times charges for the vast majority of the content on it’s website. The charges are quite high so I’ve naturally not paid them before*. Today there was an […]

Some people think we live in an equal society where everyone is treated equally but as I’ve pointed out before people are often all too willing to treat a percieved discriminated grouping better than others. This BBC article shows again how some discrimination is alright. Can you imagine if this guy was discriminated against because […]