Dave’s Rants

I read this story yesterday on Digital Spy. I’m a big proponent of free speech so I don’t think that Eminem should be stopped at all but Moby raises an interesting point about the double standard. Moby says:

“If a musician made a record wherein he talked about killing blacks and Jews would he get covered […]

I was in Greece during the summer and was facinated by the signage around the place because they used different letters. As an Engineer I encountered all the Greek letters from all the Maths/Engineering classes I took in University so I was familiar with them but it was still cool. Boing Boing linked to this […]

Pear Budget
Easy budgeting for everyone!
(tags: money organization productivity software tools)

Only joking but I really do need to do a bit of a redesign/content cull around here. That sidebar is ridiculously cluttered! Oh yeah I created it using this yoke.

What Wiki to use for personal use is a common question on Ask MeFi, I’m trying to set one up for myself currently and found WikiMatrix which is great for comparing features. Here’s the comparison I used.
BTW, if you want to know why I need a Wiki, I just want to use it for jotting […]

Via Neil comes the iTunes Signature Creator. Mine contains 30 songs from my collection try and name them all, I’ll post up the results later!
Right-click here to download this signature. (On Mac, control-click.)

Laser Etching Macintosh Powerbooks.
I so wished I could do this, well I’d need a Powerbook too!
(tags: mac apple diy via:makeblog powerbook cool)

Google: Ten Golden Rules
The Ten Rules that Google uses to manage their employees!
(tags: google business management technology)

The Biggest Market Crashes in History
Very interesting article. Of course what interests me the most is that the […]

So at this stage you’ll have seen the reports about the marches today. We’re supposed to be impressed because 80,000 or so people skipped off work to go on a march. To be honest I couldn’t give a toss, there’s hardly a person in the country who doesn’t think that what’s happening to the Irish […]

Just been playing around with the new Windows Live Local and I must say I like it a lot. The zooming in/out function is excellent! Also it’s better than Google because I think the place names are much more accurate, Google Maps is a hodgepodge of Irish and English words for example there’ not a […]

NumberSpiral
For all the Maths Geeks out there!
(tags: number maths science cool interesting via:kottke)