Just browsing the web and dropped by the Gimp website and discovered their internet protest. To quote: “Most software will become illegal to use in Europe if this dangerous directive is adopted without proper amending.” “The Commission and the Council of Ministers are covertly pushing for unlimited patentability of software, heavily lobbied by multinationals and [...]

Tá teach nua againn anois … bhuel is árasán é. 80m2, dhá sheomraí leapa, dhá sheomraí teaghaigh, dhá ‘jacks’ 7 balcóin (3h+tupak+p, 1./5 kerros – Suomeksi). Rachaidh muid a chónaí an tseachtain seo chugainn. Tá sé ar fheabhas!

There is now a 40GB hard drive add-on for Sony’s PS2. Now that is a welcome add-on, for those of you who use the PS2 game consoles and are sick of the absolute-day-light-robbery-rip-off prices of memory cards. €40 (8mb) vs €82 ($100)(40gb). You do the math!

Ok, i’m a real cynic, I just really dislike kids being used for propaganda.

This is a damn interesting competition and worth keeping an eye on. The X-Prize is a competition to see who will be the first to launch a 3-person manned craft to the edge of space – twice within two weeks. Scaled Composites’ SpaceShipOne just had her 2nd test flight in Mojave cúpla lá ó shin [...]

To be able to get Longhorn to the customers on time it looks like Microsoft has to trim some features from their latest OS. “Microsoft is not cutting back on its vision … Instead the company is clipping features and functionality, without taking away the core of the improvements it promised, so it can deliver [...]

I was browsing a web forum, in particular one thread on the complexity of the english language when some member posted the following: “We’ll begin with a box, and the plural is boxes; but the plural of ox became oxen not oxes. One fowl is a goose, but two are called geese, yet the plural [...]

[revised & updated] Part 2 of our design critique of NI Political Party websites we take another look at the same set of websites to see if they have actually made any improvements. The majourity of the sites made no significant changes.

Another story from the Guardian. It’s a year to the day that US troops helped pull down a statue of Saddam in Bagdad. Whatever you think of the war, whether US/UK should have invaded or not, you have to admit that the war is far from over. You’d think that the experience of the US [...]

News from the Guardian, and also covered in a number of other sites, “pornography and spam continue to flood email inboxes despite government attempts to stem the tide”. “New laws passed last December made it a criminal offence, punishable by a fine, to send spam to private email addresses”. They could have asked me and [...]