Eoin links to an article in the New York Times about the legality of locking phones. When oh when will the rules be softened here, as in France?
Archive for November, 2007
Unlocking phones
Wednesday, November 14th, 2007Fact Checkers Unit, Bill Murray
Wednesday, November 14th, 2007These guys take their job really seriously, they always get their facts. But how do you check if Bill Murray drinks warm milk to get to sleep? Hilarious, with guest appearance by Bill Murray as himself.
No plan, no peace
Wednesday, November 14th, 2007In case you missed it. The best documentary on the war I have seen thus far. Almost two hours long, John Ware looks at the lack of post-war planning. The documentary was broadcast on BBC1 last month.
Quote of the day
Wednesday, November 14th, 2007Jim Cramer, in an article about the Fed chairman Ben Bernanke, brought up George Bush’s views on the US economy. He constantly says it is fundamentally sounds, even if things are not going quite so well.
I’m not surprised by President Bush’s sunny economic outlook—this president would praise the Weimar Republic’s hyperinflation as great for Home Depot and the wheelbarrow industry.
Booya!
First iPhone Europe visitor
Friday, November 9th, 2007So the iPhone launched today in the UK, and my logs show someone in Dublin visited on O2 using an iPhone. Who was that?
Digifone Online
Location
Continent : Europe
Country : Ireland (Facts)
State/Region : Dublin
City : Dublin
Lat/Long : 53.3331, -6.2489 (Map)
Language English
en
Operating System Macintosh MacOSX
Browser Safari 1.3
Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/1C28 Safari/419.3
Javascript version 1.5
Monitor
Resolution : 320 x 396
Color Depth : 32 bits
Time of Visit Nov 9 2007 9:35:23 pm
Last Page View Nov 9 2007 9:35:23 pm
Visit Length 0 seconds
Page Views 1
Referring URL http://m.newsgator.com/iPhone.aspx
24 in 1994
Friday, November 9th, 2007Hilarious, or at least to those of us from the pre-mobile, pre-broadband generation, and remember using computers before Windows 95.
Adverts
Monday, November 5th, 2007As readers may have noticed I have Google Adsense on my blog. I have installed Donncha’s plugin for only showing irregular visitors who drop in via searches of the archives, but it does not appear to be working. Can anyone advise?
I expect that most regular readers hate seeing the ads, so I would like them to disappear for you guys!
Heroes in Cork
Friday, November 2nd, 2007I’ve started watching season 2 of Heroes. I had heard much talk of Cork being in the second season, and god it’s bloody awful. The accents are woeful, the sets make Ireland look like it did in 1954 rather than 2007. The second episode shows a pub “The Wandering Rock” (whatever that meansan apparent reference to Ulysses – in Cork?), with dingy bathrooms and people wearing shabby dirty clothes. Jaysus.
I guess there are some pubs like that, but do we have to stereotype to such a degree?
Here’s hoping it gets better.
Here is Season 2, episode 1.