Aug

Play.com and the Book Depository. Both of them are pretty good value websites and I got my first deliveries from them within five days of my order… Not bad like. Especailly as they both do free delivery. Also a plus is that with the book depository anyway, they’re customer service regarding damaged items is very very good. Have a look.

Aug

21

Another Blogger that I know of;

Blogging

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Mark In The Ghetto - another UCC student who’s taken up this blogging lark….

Aug

13

I really really hate the google toolbar…

Blogging, Computer Problems

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Same crap as from my last post on this. Anyone have a suggestion for what to do? I can’t keep having to find my bookmarks every time this stupid thing somehow installs itself…

Jul

25

The Map of the Internet

Blogging

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Nice to know where I am I guess…

Jul

24

Where does the time go?

Blogging

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Blogs a year old. Wasn’t too sure whether to do this yesterday, which was the day I bought the domain name or today when I did my first post. Man it doesn’t seem that long ago!

Jul

19

Going offline

Blogging, Me, myself and I

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Right. Well in order; my music player seems to be on the fritz, firefox is dead to me with this google toolbar shite (and I can’t seem to find a version without it anywhere) and my internet connection never lasts more than five minutes with the replacement box that was meant to stop me being knocked offline every TEN minutes. Fuck this, I’m having many bottles of beer and watching a Danish horror movie. Once this shit is sorted, I’ll try start posting properly again.

Jul

18

Stupid Firefox

Blogging, Me, myself and I

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Just turned it on. It wouldn’t work so I closed it. Reopen it and all my settings/bookmarks and so on and so forth are gone. Grrrr… I should be able to recover most of them - its just the annoyance…. Screw this though, weathers good so I’m going outside….

Update: Call me suspicious, but I suspect that its the Google Toolbar - when things went weird yesterday that had appeared. I put it off and yet it came back when I just restarted the computer now… And all my information is gone again.

Jul

16

The begining of history?

Blogging, Debating, Documentaries, Media, Philosophy, Science, weird

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Interesting article here from the BBC website by Sci-fi author Charles Stross - in it he suggests that ‘history has only just begun’ because while we can guess at the ‘wide stuff’ the day to day minute of peoples lives are largely unknown.

His idea? As I can figure it its that with modern technology being what it is future history students may use my blog, facebook and bebo accounts to reconstruct my life (or at least a significant portion of it anyway). Its an interesting idea but I’m not sure if its totally convincing….

My lack of belief lies mainly on the grounds of whether the technology he talks about will ever become fully available and even if it does finding the time to figure it all out would be ridiculous. I mean, in some ways I’m reminded of an issue of Warren Ellis’ future set ‘Transmetropolitan’ comic where the lead character points out that even big business or government groups hardly even bother to hide information becuase the sheer amount of information they release by themselves is nearly impossible to follow and that’s without contextualisation - so even if it Stross’ idea is the right one it may be a case of ‘drought to a flood’…

Jul

9

The lesbian gang epidemic of America

America, Blogging, Faux News, Media, weird

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Courtesy of Ectomo.com Fox News reports on lesbian gangs attacking.. well anyone. Here’s the article with its revelation that this is probably based on various urban myths… Good on you Bill!