Sunday 30th March at 9pm on Sky 2. If you’re a fan that’s all you need to know Stargate: Ark Of Truth, the feature length episode which followed the last and final series of Stargate SG1 was released on DVD in the US at the start of March according to Barry’s post. I thought I’d have to wait until the region 2 DVD became available but Sky ponied up the dosh and I presume it was shown during the week on Sky 1? I’m still catching up on my regular programming through Sky+ and haven’t hit last week yet so […]
WordPress
There's never been a better time to upgrade WordPress
When is the best time to upgrade your blog software? After the latest release has been out for a few weeks? When a release is so new it’s burning a hole in the ftp servers? When there have been a couple of releases because idonthavethetimetoupdateeverysingletime? Now? The best time is right now. Spammers are taking advantage of exploits in old versions of WordPress and inserting hidden spam links in posts and using WordPress powered blogs to distribute viruses and malicious software. They’re also using these exploits to run their own code on your server. This morning I spotted an Irish […]
Web
StumbleUpon's brief dalliance with CAPTCHAs
I was shocked to see a CAPTCHA this morning when I stumbled a post not yet in the SU database. StumbleUpon to me was and is the one social network where I hadn’t come across reams of spam or annoying behaviour. The overall experience there has been so smooth and enjoyable that I wondered just how they managed to keep the spammers at bay. Obviously they’re attracting the wrong attention now because this morning I was presented with a CAPTCHA twice when I discovered new content. Illegible StumbleUpon CAPTCHA A slightly more readable StumbleUpon CAPTCHA Those CAPTCHAs look like the […]
blogging , Ireland
Do you read any Irish blogs?
If you’re not Irish or living in Ireland, can you name an Irish blogger that you read on a regular basis? (Besides me of course!) And more importantly, why? Is it because of their niche, or is it their witty and insightful commentary? I ask this because Kathy Foley blasted Irish blogger Twenty Major’s new book and proceeded to question whether the Irish blogosphere had anything to offer the world. Has the land of saints and scholars become a land of consumers without giving anything worthwhile back? I haven’t read Twenty’s book so I can’t comment on that but I […]
Ireland , Music
Jump Around as Gaeilge
“Léim Thart” le Des Bishop ag canadh ag Oireachtas na Samhna 2007 i gCathair na Mart. It’ll be on RTE 1 tonight on “In the Name of the Fada” at 10:15pm if you want to catch a probably better version. I can barely make out any of the song in any of the Youtube videos of his performances I watched this morning! Fair dues to him for taking on the Irish language. Takes a foreigner to show the Irish how to make it popular! 🙂
In the news
Britney Spears and the Paps
I caught the last 20 minutes of Britney: Speared by the Paps on Sky 1 last week. It was a candid look into the world of the paparazzi who follow Britney Spears everywhere. Britney Spears has her own agenda and apparently laps up the attention and encourages the “photographers” but how low do you have to sink to crave this attention? Sickening and weird. If you’re wondering just how bad it is, watch this short clip which was featured in the show. Britney visits Rite Aid and she’s mobbed by paparazzi. So, is anyone taking bets on how long Britney […]
Linux
HOWTO: Ubuntu desktop visual effects on Dell D630
The Dell Latitude D630 comes with a number of different video cards but if you use the Intel chipset you may be frustrated when trying to activate the visual effects eye candy of Compiz: Checking either of the lower two options brings up this alert saying, “Desktop effects could not be enabled”. I didn’t bother trying to fix it for ages and put it down to using Ubuntu on exotic hardware. Fortunately it’s simple to get working. I just needed to install the xGL server: # aptitude install xserver-xgl Reading package lists… Done Building dependency tree Reading state information… Done […]
In the news
Thanks Arthur for all the great stories
I couldn’t possibly let today pass without noting that Arthur C. Clarke died yesterday at the age of 90. I read it first last night when Scott Beale twittered it and my first emotion was shock, and then of course sadness. I don’t know how many Saturday mornings I spent in Cork City Library looking through the science fiction section for his books. Then it was back on the bike and off home to devour my latest find if I was lucky and found one I hadn’t already read. His Mysterious World tv series was compulsive viewing for a young […]
WordPress
WP Super Cache 0.6
It’s been a while since the last release of WP Super Cache, so it’s about time to release the updated code on the world! This plugin allows a WordPress blog to be served directly from static HTML files just like another popular blogging engine. When this plugin was originally released some users noticed strange folders being created in the root folder of their blogs. I was never able to replicate it and despite my efforts to track down the bug it remained unfixed. Well, I fixed that bug thanks to whooami and to Jennifer who allowed me to login to […]