Archive for May, 2007
links for 2007-05-31
Simon Woodside | HOWTO develop Symbian apps using Mac OS X Starting to investigate symbian development for Series 60 devices (tags: series 60 symbian development investigate c++ programming mobile phone application)
links for 2007-05-30
Hivelogic - The Narrative - Building Ruby, Rails, Subversion, Mongrel, and MySQL on Mac OS X Useful tutorial on how to install Ruby on Rails for Mac OSX (tags: mac osx ruby rails tutorial install)
links for 2007-05-26
Flock Start Page ireland.com - The Irish Times - Sat, May 26, 2007 - McDowell quits politics after losing Dáil seat to Gormley The Mighty McDowell resigns from politics after loosing his seat. Say what you want but the people always express their opinion of individuals rather than party politics. (tags: ireland irish politics michael mcdowell government resignation resign election 2007)
An Open Note to the Irish People
Following closely, the election aftermath and it looks like it is a foregone conclusion that Team Bertie will resume in office for the next government. I would like to take this opportunity to acknowledge and mark the fact that the people of Ireland despite wanting so many changes in society have failed to vote for change. This is the first time in a long time that Fianna Fail will return to government at a time when a fall in the economy is likely to happen, and inflation is set to rise steeply - for once it cannot be blamed on an alternative government. Please remember that, whatever [...]
I’ve always admired…
I've always admired Bob Geldof as a man who is never afraid to say the words that come into his head. He's a tireless human rights campaigner with strong beliefs and the balls to back it up. Today however, I have even more respect for him having just been conferred with an honourary fellowship from the Royal College of Surgeons or what he called "the Royal College of f ***in Surgeons!". Kudos Bob. Anyone who can go to receive a fellowship and utter such words about the bestowing body while still attacking the government on its aid provisioning deserves a serious round of applause. You never [...]
Badda Ba Ba Ba
Badda Ba Ba Ba Originally uploaded by jbwan. Well everyone else is making parody posters for the election. Why not me? :) Click the image above to enlarge.
Polls Apart
So the day is finally upon us, the centres are open and the booths are no doubt indelibly marked with the impressions of so many aggressive voters' pencil scribblings. Election 2007 is underway. Just hours before the gates opened to voters, the INO finally calls an end to its strike action, possibly the best orchestrated campaign of this entire election. They're now down to 37.5 hours per week and heading to the benchmarking body for a 10% pay rise while the tax payer foots the bill for the establishment of a commission to determine if they should get a 35 hour week instead. Boy oh boy did I [...]
Cows with guns
Hadn't seen this in ages and accidentally stumbled across it today. High quality humour at its best.
links for 2007-05-20
AIB Internet Banking Garda Fatal Road Collision statistics
links for 2007-05-19
So you want to create WordPress themes huh? » WPDesigner So, I'm a little behind the times and am only starting to regain interest in developing themes for sites. Go ahead and judge me! :) (tags: wordpress theme create blog design tutorial)
