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Solve the riddle
Can anyone solve the riddle below? No prizes unfortunately.
Originally came via an email but I Photoshopped™® it slightly. -
Hotlinking is bad but I can make it worse
I feel so ashamed. I’ve just been extremely bad.
Someone in Brazil changed their theme on blogspot and very nice it is too I have to say. His design is excellent but for one thing. He is hotlinking to an image on my server. I’m getting hundred of hits for it so I figured I might [...] -
Gardai tripped up by Polish Driving Licence
Some one with the Polish name “Prawo Jazdy” managed to rack up over 50 motoring offences by June 2007 and finally the Gardai have managed to figure out who “he/she” is.
“Prawo Jazdy” is Polish for “Driving Licence”
Apparently unlike our paper licences, the Polish one is a credit card sized ID type jobby. With “Prawo Jazdy” [...] -
Fun and games in the Atlantic Ocean?
Of course I’m forever a cynic. And believe me it is worth being so at times.
Even more so these days, but apparently a French and British submarine collided “somewhere in the Atlantic.” And a couple of Russian naval vessels deposited 300 tonnes of heavy fuel oil as a result of a refuelling incident just 50 [...] -
Bargain of the Day
It’s obviously a mistake but is was visible here a short while ago. Click for bigger.
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RTE have a problem with their proxies
Just tried to get on to the RTE News website and was greeted with this lovely error message.
It looks like they use Squid as a reverse proxy/load balancer like myself. Well it seems that at the moment their backend servers have fallen off the face of the planet!
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Patience has its limits and Rockstar games just discovered mine
Grand Theft Auto IV is almost ready for the PC. I’ve been waiting so long for it. I’ve even gone so far as to pre-order it. It’s the only game I have been looking forward since San Andreas was released four years ago.
Sadly I’ve had to cancel my order.
Unfortunately Rockstar have decided to embed SecuROM [...] -
To the man in the 07 D BMW
You were on the N25 yesterday climbing up the sweep hill outside Dungarvan in the overtaking lane heading towards Cork. I know that merely by being a BMW driver that you own the road and you can do what you want with it but try to have some decency for those who would like to [...]