Italian Police seek Hypnotist thief?
Weird and unusual news! Italian police are looking for a man supposedly hypnotising people and making them hand over money: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7309947.stm In every case, the last thing...
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Drat! Seems those energy efficient CFL’s (Compact Fluorescent Light bulbs) contain just enough lead that the bulbs could be a problem when they’re put in the rubbish (link found via Slashdot):...
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Robin
A pic I took today when walking home along the Fens in Fenway after having the Irish breakfast at the Squealing Pig: Later in the day while walking the Dog along Commonwealth Ave, we saw this hawk in a...
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George
The first George the President: Taken on a cool night with a full moon. I don’t like how my Panasonic takes nights shots, they seem to noisy (specklie) to be. I still think my 6 year old Canon S200 did...
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Bertie’s Gone
The Taoiseach Bertie Ahern resigned, reminds me of this photograph I took while home in January: I’d guess some people think he’s lying!
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Regularly drinking coffee may help prevent or reduce the symptoms of Alzheimer’s Disease: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7326839.stm And binge drinking can affect memory recall (at least in young...
View ArticleThat Pizza will be 2.6 million …
That Pizza being pizza.com! Some lad bought the domain name in 1994 at the “dawn” of the internet age, and has owned it ever since. After seeing how much vodka.com sold for (about 3 million dollars) he...
View ArticleSpirit of Uganda
Went to see “Spirit of Uganda” at Berklee. Very enjoyable, inspiring, and entertaining. If they’re playing in your city or part of the world I’d recommend going to see them. Some news coverage at the...
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Chapel Doorway
I took this a few Sundays ago, the same day we saw this hawk in the trees.
View ArticleTesting YAPB
Testing YAPB plugin for WordPress. WordPress is the Blog software that this blog runs on, YAPB is “Yet another Photo Blog” plugin for WordPress to help one manage photographs. After this one test post,...
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e17 on Ubuntu Revisited
Ever since my original post on installing Enlightenment E17 on Debian and Ubuntu things have changed, such as the server that hosted the package repositories for both Debian & Ubuntu going off-line...
View ArticleUpdate on Enlightenment E17 for Debian
Update: I’ve decided to use Falko’s packages, see my posting here: http://timony.com/mickzblog/2008/04/24/e17-on-debian/ If you want to run E17 on Debian you have 4 choices (as of April 2008): Wait for...
View ArticleE17 on Debian
Quickie install instructions: Add the following lines to your /etc/apt/sources.list: # repo from Falko Schmidt: deb http://debian.alphagemini.org/ unstable main This will also require you to have...
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Interview with Rasterman of Enlightenment Fame
An interview with Rasterman on OSnews, founder of Enlightenment, on E17: http://www.osnews.com/story/19679 When will E17 be released? … does Rasterman have any timeframe in mind for the release of the...
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Boston JazzWeek Finale!
At Berklee Performance Center on Saturday the 3rd of May the finale of Boston’s 2nd Jazz week will be held. Tickets in advance are $10: http://www.jazzboston.org/about/jazzweek2008-highlights.asp...
View ArticleKey missing?
If you get this error message: W: GPG error: http://people.debian.org unstable Release: The following signatures couldn’t be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 212253A4F641D1A6...
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NYC Irish Famine Memorial
A very unique design. It’s supposed to be a ruined house on a hill in Ireland. You walk around the base of the memorial, towards the water. Go through a short tunnel, which has speakers playing the...
View ArticleFriends on Last.fm
Some friends from my home town in Ireland are in bands! So I’ve 2 Last.fm pages to refer to you. First Pavesi: http://www.last.fm/music/Pavesi And Serial Twin: http://www.last.fm/music/Serial+Twin If...
View ArticleDigging a hole
Sandy digging a hole at the lake: Sorry if the music sounds a little wonky. Music extract is probably copywritted by the Estate of Jimi Hendrix.
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