Pat sent me and I presume everyone he knows on Facebook this photo. The story is that Chinese soldiers dressed up as Tibetan monks and caused a riot at a rally. After a quick search it appears this is a photo taken on a movie set. This post has much more detail including the following: UPDATE – TUES. APRIL 8: The International Campaign for Tibet made a statement via their website that they do not regard this photo as credible evidence of Chinese soldiers disguising themselves as Buddhist monks during unrest in Lhasa last month. They acknowledge that they are […]
Games
Xenon 2 Megablast
Xenon 2 Megablast. If you know this game, you’ll know the soundtrack. This game by The Bitmap Brothers had great title music by “Bomb The Bass”. It was a shoot ’em up released in 1989 although I didn’t play it until years later when I played it on the Atari ST and years later before I’d play it on the Amiga. The Amiga version is widely regarded as the best version and if you look around you can find the adf download fairly easily. Hand on heart, I have to admit I didn’t like this game much. I love the […]
WordPress
WordPress MU 1.5 RC1
The first release candidate of the new WordPress MU 1.5 has just been released. The obvious major change is the new admin interface and password salting introduced in WordPress 2.5, but apart from them many bugs have been fixed. There is also experimental support for CSS styles, something that has been missing from MU for quite some time due to XSS concerns. This function does the work of filtering out bad stuff and I would appreciate feedback, both positive and negative, especially with security concerns. This release is quite stable, but there will probably be bugs still. Please only test […]
Ireland , tv
In The Name Of The Fada
You’ll already know about the Irish version of Jump Around by Des Bishop if you’re a regular reader here, but if you have missed previous episodes, please watch the last episode of “In The Name Of The Fada”. It’s on RTE 1 tonight at 10:15pm. Sky+ is set to record it here. We just watched the 5th episode in New York and Boston and totally enjoyed it. That Korean guy in Times Square had a brilliant grasp of Irish even though he’d never been to Ireland. I’m looking forward to the last episode, even if it does make me feel […]
Apple , Hardware , Web
How to win an Apple Mac Air
Join Twitter. Follow @wubud. Tell your friends. @wubud (pronounced woo-bud) is where Paul Walsh will reveal his next venture. You may remember Paul from a previous post here about his qik adventures when he missed his flight home because he was talking to people on the Internet. He landed a bed in a penthouse suite so don’t be too sorry for him! Anyway, he explains on his blog why he’s going down the Twitter route and it’s an interesting experiment. It certainly caught the imagination of several people we both follow and I know others are blogging it too. Nice […]
Games
Geometry Wars Galaxies
First impressions of this much anticipated 2D shooter for the Nintendo Wii are not good. I played with the Wii remote and the nunchuck and from what I’ve just read on an Amazon review it’s much better with the classic controller. With the Wiimote and Nunchuck it sucks, you have a cursor on the screen and you aim that where you want to shoot and fly with the Nunchuck joystick. With the Wii Classic Controller it Rocks, you fly in any direction with the right joystick and simultaneously you shoot in any direction with the left joystick. Which as you […]
WordPress
WP Super Cache 0.6.2
A few people stumbled across a strange bug in WP Super Cache. If your index.php was cached by the plugin then feeds or other pages that hadn’t been cached would show the front page! A simple way to fix this is by adding “index.php” to the list of rejected URIs, but then it won’t be cached at all. This release fixes the problem but also allows index.php to be cached by the WP Cache engine, much better than excluding index.php completely. Also included is a new feature that inserts your rewrite rules in a new .htaccess block. That will stop […]
Games
Mario Kart Wii
I blame Matt. If he hadn’t taken his Nintendo Wii to Stinson Beach last year I might never have known the delight of waving a remote control at random angles through the air. I jest of course. The Wii has had so much press that even I couldn’t not have become aware of it. Add to that my brother and sister bought machines for their homes and it was only a matter of time before I bought one. I couldn’t be happier with my purchase. Well, there is one thing. If it was somehow able to freeze time, or add […]
Humour , tv
RateYourDoc.org
Who are the top 10 doctors at Sacred Heart: Dr. Jan Itor Dr. John Dorian Dr. Chris Turk Franklyn D Elliot Reid Nurse Espinosa Dr. Perry Cox Dr. Robert Kelso Dr. Todd Quinlan Dr. Doug Murphy Feel free to rate your favourite Scrubs doctor at rateyourdoc.org. There’s no way I’d vote for JD, I’d probably vote for Perry or Turk, but Dr. Jan Itor is a strong possibility too! Do not however follow Todd’s advice and visit his toddtime website! It’s pretty shocking. You have been warned!
Web
Lifelong Learning Festival
I was so very tempted to name this post after Conor’s tweet about the browsing behaviour of kids but I’ll be strong and mature about it. He gave a talk today in a large truck in the car park of Wilton Shopping Centre. That might sound a bit dodgy but it’s actually part of the Lifelong Learning Festival this week in Cork. I was out there doing some shopping so I dropped by and took a few photos. Thanks Frank for the link. Otherwise I’d never have known anything about it! Bloody hell that Wilton crowd knew their stuff. Kids […]