Dave’s Rants

Why do people dislike Paul McCartney so much?
Interesting debate on why people like Lennon but not McCartney
(tags: thebeatles lennon mccartney debate music discussion askmefi)

I’ve been having a bit of a think about where Sky will go next with this (content on demand) and it’s pretty cool to think where they could go. The next step is obviously to have an Internet enabled Sky+ box. This would mean you could download content like this to your box and also […]

Well kinda… John Breslin wrote today about developements on Planet of the Blogs and he included a graph of all the interlinked blogs as indexed by Planet of the Blogs. I couldn’t find myself but then there I was almost dead centre of the whole mess! I highlighted myself in red for your benefit.

But […]

I noticed a thread on the IDGC board on boards.ie saying that `Sky by broadband’ had launched so obviously I checked it out! You just go to an area on the Sky website and register by just plugging in your viewing card number and some other details, then you download the desktop application and away […]

Dave’s Blog
My Wordpress.com blog, nothing there yet because I haven’t figured out what I want to do with it!`
(tags: wordpress blogging blog)

Extremely Safe Browsing
Mark described how to set up the VMware Browser Applicance for very safe browsing.
(tags: safe browser vmware linux firefox cool security)

See no good, hear no good
An interesting post on the Irish media’s lack of coverage of the recent elections in Iraq
(tags: iraq bias media rte irishtimes irishindependent democracy)

A year ago I got my current laptop and I’ve not got around to formating it yet so it’s accumulated quite a bit of crap over the past 12 months. Recently I’ve been getting low disk space warning for my C: partition and since I’m too lazy to re partition I needed to figure out […]

Google launched their Music service today. I like it but it’s got one major flaw in my eyes, I only shop from one online Music Store (iTunes) hence I’ll just use their search when I’m searching for something.
Anyway it doesn’t appear to be working on Google.ie yet so here’s a search for the Foo Fighters […]

I’m currently a regular user of Skype, Evie is in Sweden so it’s a great way to chat cheaply! I’m strongly of the opinion that the VOIP space would be much better if someone like Gizmo was the industry leader. This would mean we’d be using the open SIP protocol but I digress. Skype is […]

Via the Munsterfans forum I found these two videos on Google Video. The first is quite a funny one, it shows what you don’t want to do when trying to score a try!
The second is the famous 1973 match between the Barbarians and New Zealand. The match is renowned as one of the classics but […]