Ken Guest’s online diary

It’s true.
If you have the DVD you’ll see me quiet clearly no less than four times, at these timestamps:

1. 8:13
2. 22:23
3. 31:30
4. 1:18:18

Wohoo!

The URL to this scanned flyer was posted on irc.linux.ie, demonstrating the differences in price between HMV and two of the online CD stores cdwow.ie and play.com.
It also recommends Irish consumers voice their complaints at the IRMA (Irish Recorded Music Association) website.
I know I will.

Heard yesterday, off The Full Irish on 2FM, that it is now required by law in the Netherlands that you always drive with your headlights on, daylight or night-time.
Alledgely statistics show that less accidents to those travelling with headlights on during the daytime.

Discovered the Euro Bill Tracker website (via the Cork Linux Users Group).

It’s an interesting idea, to be able to see where the euro notes you had have gotten to

There are some 120 cats and dogs that urgently need new homes – they are costing €40,000 to keep per year by the Kildare ISPCA. Can you help find a home for them?

List of things tested with the Zaurus

sharp.co.uk/zaurus

Very saddened (read irritated) this morning when I heard that our Minister of the Environment disagrees with the intended blanket ban on smoking.
That he disagrees with it is his own personal business. However, I feel he should be towing the line with his colleague the Minister of Health and rethink his wording that the ban related to “political correctness”.
The ban is born not for a desire of political correctness, but to protect peoples well-being and health.
Cullen ought to be forced to work in an environment where all those around him smoke solidly for at least a fortnight and then asked if his opinion has changed.

Went into Argos today to get a copy of the new catalogue and to splash out on a Sharp Zaurus.
Plenty of new catalogues – but no Zaurus. No longer stocked.

http://www.worldwidewords.org/ is an interesting site that Liam mentioned today.

Pron was looking for chauffer firms:

http://www.metrochauffeur.com/

http://www.dialamerc.com/

Drove out to Derrymore Strand and way way on out to the Seven after work with Rachel. Very picturesque.

Had a nice round trip drive of 250 miles this weekend – down to Birr, where we stayed for Saturday night then across to Cloughjordan yesterday to drop in on my parents for an hour or so and then back down to Tralee.

The car’s so smooth it’s unbelievable.

Feels a bit odd to drive into work rather than walk. Now takes 7 minutes to get there as opposed to the 25 minutes we had to allow for.
Looks like some of the linux.ie website might be changed to make the In Industry notes more accessible.

Mircosoft are showing their true colours again, this time refusing to make a fix for a Denial of Service attack available for NT4 (Flaw in RPC Endpoint Mapper Could Allow Denial of Service Attacks). In essence, they say it is too difficult to write a code-fix or service pack for NT4.

Repeat after me:
“Thank God this can’t happen in Open Source systems.”

Something almost funny occured today…
a bill from O2 arrived with a required payment date of 28th March: tomorrow! Anyways I rang customer support to ask them to note I wouldn’t be able to pay on time (payment takes time to clear etc) and the lady in O2 customer support kept asking if I had a land-line number as there was too bad a connection for her to hear me clearly – with me ringing from an O2 phone.

Laugh? I almost hurt myself.

One of the funniest pages I’ve seen in a long time:

http://www.coxar.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/

After taking the plunge, biting the bullet:
paid down a deposit on a lovely Saxo today during lunch after taking it on a test drive.

Lovely (and Rachel, my sweetheart, is over the moon about it).