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Pulp Fiction

Jason sent me a link to this a few days ago and I have to say I am so blown away by how cool this clip is. It is Pulp Fiction in Typography and my god, it’s so damn awesome.

I’m also working on draft post about DemoBar/PaddysValley/OpenCoffee too. Needless to say, it was awesome.

Back to Vodafone

Originally I got my mobile from Vodafone, but unhappy with their policy on credit expiring after 30 days (I always lost lots of credit that way) I switched over to O2. After they fumbled the switchover I should of seen the signs. Although I did manage to get the best part of 120 euros worth of free credit from them because of it

Over the last few days, I’ve become fed up since I’ve started using my phone more and more. Sitting down remaining still talk to someone, only for the call to disconnect. People on Vodafone would tell me when they dial me, they hear out of service and so on. I wouldn’t receive calls at all at times. So adios O2. I’ve switched back to Vodafone (Also take a hint O2, their sim switchover pack is free.)

SAGE-IE September Talk

Yesterday I stepped inside Google’s EU headquarters for a SAGE-IE meeting that David Malone was giving on “Possible Questions to ask when Interviewing Sysadmins”

A very good talk considering I’m now at the stage where I’m going to be sending out CV’s for applying for jobs in the whole networking/sysadmin area. I was pleasantly surprised to find I could answer some of the questions in a decent level of detail (considering my experience) while I could give partial answers (Who knew if UDP was being filtered you can send an ICMP unreachable response back, always believed it was a fire and forget protocol, which it is to an extent) to others.

The only one I found myself stumped at was printing in linux/unix because I’ve never used linux/unix before on the desktop long enough to actually set up printing. At the moment this is my current mindset

Servers = Linux/Unix

Desktops = Windows

Before I anger someone, this is my personal view and each to their own.

A typically Irish moment

I don’t think I could describe the Irish any more accurately then this.

I was in town today dropping off forms to the CRO (who could really do with air conditioning in their office) and on my way back home I stopped off in McDonalds for a bite to eat (What can I say, I’m a classy guy)

The fire alarm went off while I was biting into my burger and so the guy sitting beside me and myself in perfect sync turned around to see if there was flames behind us. Satisfied we were in no immediate danger we turned back around and finished eating.

I broke YouTube!

….Well not really, but its the first time I’ve ever seen an internal server errror on the site.

Youtube - Internal Server Error

And before anyone goes typing that link in, it’s “The Clash - Rock the Casbah” and yes, you can haze me later.

Also on a slightly unrelated note, has YouTube been really slow for anyone else?

Nothing quite like some healthy rivalry…

This is the General Chat section of the Irish Webmaster forum

I’ve highlighted the most interesting part of this picture.

Irish Web Master forum

This is the Feedback forum from boards.ie

Again, I’ve highlighted the more interesting parts in red.

Boards.ie Feedback forum

Let the games begin.

Guys and Dolls…

And this is not about that crappy musical.

Nick sent me a link to this

And all I can say that its freaked the shit out of me. These people obviously have some very deep rooted psychological problems that they should really get some help with. When you get to a stage in life where you refer to a over sized piece of plastic as ’she’ and feel stressed out from being separated from ‘her’ you know you’ve got some problems.

I love content protection….

 I got this message when I went to play a DVD on my PC now.
Windows Media Player Content Protection

Wonderful.

I just opened it in VLC instead.

Test

It appears something has gone wrong with the update. Fucking huzzah.

Conor does Scotland

I’m back from wee bonnie Scotland (Well I came back Monday, i’ve been lazy since)

Some of the highlights have been:

Cute girl on plane who I was talking to

….Then she told me I sound like I have some time managment issues.

Meeting Nick and Kirsty (My partner in business/crime (delete as necessary))

Spending the majority of time watching movies/playing games

Spending the night before I go home actually talking about the business and doing necessary paperwork. And all about Project Pontouf at some ungodly hour in the morning.

Going to bed when the sun was rising

Eating breakfast at 5pm

A photo diary:

Haggis Favourites

Fascist Tree

Castle Campbell

Shame about my finger cutting off the last bit of that photo.