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All Consuming Update

This entry covers on a bunch of things that I just didn’t get time to blog about over the past few days, hence the title. I have to make it quick as well as I’m meeting some of my former college buddies for drinks in about an hour. In that time I have to feed myself too. 😐 Apparently, The Finest, have a gig coming up this weekend in Eamonn Dorans that I hope to get along to. A few of the lads in the band are mates from Oxegen.

Having major trouble with our work email system. We run a service for another provider in the North and their registration page is being hit by spam registrations at the moment. I’ve tried a variety of different things to ward them off but I can’t use mod_rewrite at the moment as it screws up the admin interface for the mail. 👿 Have to get on to our network guys in the morning about it.

I bought and played Day of Defeat: Source on Tuesday night with Trev. We used to play the original DOD constantly back in college on the LAN so it was nostalgic to see the old game back with a new engine. The game itself is as good as it was and the physics are brilliant with explosions and the rag-doll physics model really making a difference. In fact I spent two hours playing it without realising. 🙂 Sign of a good game.

Web Readings Lately:

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Veronica Mars

Veronica MarsFinally got around to watching the first episode of Veronica Mars. Dave had been ranting about how good it was so I acquired one of the episodes a few months back but never got around to watching it. All I can say is “wow”. For a series opener it’s excellent and is definitely going to keep me watching. I also really like the web site for the show, it’s innovative and not your bog-standard TV site. Thumbs up all round. 🙂

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IT@Cork Conference and Geek Dinner

The full programme for the 2005 IT@Cork Annual Conference has been announced (via Tom). I’m not too sure if I can go to the main conference itself as I’d need work to pay for me. I’ll see if I can swing it as I’d like to see some of the speakers plus I’m hoping to make the Irish Geek Dinner which will be on that evening. Neil T is coming over for it plus Robert Scoble from Microsoft will be making it. I can’t claim to know much about Scoble so I must subscribe to his blog before the dinner. There’s a price war on travel from Dublin to Cork at the moment so I should be able to get there fairly cheaply.

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Hurricane Katrina

Right, this is the post I’ve been holding back on writing but I have time now so I’m going to get stuck in. Almost 4 weeks after Katrina hit my initial thoughts on the disaster haven’t changed much. I’m not going to post in-depth about my feelings because: (a) that’d take too long and (b) I’d probably get slammed for being “anti-American” or whatever that means. Instead I’ll post links to posts and sites detailing stories about Katrina:

Please donate to the Red Cross for the victims of the Hurricane and also don’t forget about the animals who have suffered terribly throughout the past few weeks.

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Arrrrr!!

Today be Talk Like A Pirate Day. Although be coming to the party quite late, I’ll drink a pint of ale to all me sea urchens in blogland. Me be dubbed: Cap’n Harley Leadblade by the Pirate Name Generator. Shiver me timbers! Pirate