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This weekend I decided to settle down to a task that I have been putting off for a long time now. That task was the organisation of my digital photo library, spread across 3 different computers and a network storage drive. Over the years I have used so many different digital cameras, software packages for…
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For anyone else out there who has been experiencing the same issues as me with automated MovableType 4 entries from the Flickr blog post utility this one is for you. I have to confess that I let this drop but only yesterday decided to try and figure it out again. Here are the steps: Log…
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Focal Bench Originally uploaded by jbwan For a long time I always wondered about whether or not I should learn about Photoshop. I could see myself becoming somewhat addicted to it and the myriad of effects that people can create using it. This weekend I finally bit the bullet and downloaded a trial of CS3…
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Enough about Bertie and his tax affairs and the seemingly, now, tax auditor, John Gormley. What this country really needs is a turkey at the Eurovision song contest. For the last few years Ireland’s entry to the contest just hasn’t cut it but now we have a real chance to pluck victory and stuff the…
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Microsoft offer to buy Yahoo! for $44.6bn Wow! That would certainly be interesting to the point whereby I’d probably need an MSN id to merge with my unwanted Yahoo! id to access my id that allows me to use my Flickr account. source: Pat Phelan via Twitter to Marketwatch
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Yesterday marked the passing of a great British comic, Jeremy Beadle. The entertainer used to crack me up as a kid, watching Beadle’s About, when he would spring the most surreal of events on the unsuspecting public. He then went on to bring the funny home video clips idea to the UK market which possibly…
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Believe it or not a custom error message has been patented. Who’d have thought it? What next, the delay period between page loads? source: Slashdot
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Just heard yesterday that a rogue trader working in France has cost a major French bank about Eur 4.9 billion. How come everytime a recession is forecast that a rogue trader is found out? Is it that everyone loves a rogue trader when they’re making money? source: Irish Times
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It would appear that voters are currently undecided on whether or not the Taoiseach should resign after all this recent surface scratching has revealed. 44% think he should go and 46% say he shouldn’t. Hopefully this will clarify it for everyone: Jump Bertie! Jump!! source: Irish Times
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That’s what Daniel Craig’s second outing as 007 will be called or so the official word, released today, says. Rumour is that the film will be out in November and I’m looking forward to seeing the continuance of Craig’s gritty Bond character and whether or not he will become less likeable as a character thereby…