Marc O’Morain

Vlad Titov: lord of the rings has a scarely high rating, for its shitness

GIMP crashed recently, and I submitted the crash using Windows’ built in crash report tool. After the report I was led to the following webpage - how sweet is that?

I remember before when 3DS Max kept crashing, and froze my whole laptop. After submitting a few crash reports I had to log in as an Administrator for some reason, and windows popped up a message box telling me that the crashes that I had reported in the past had been casued by my ATI graphics card driver, and they pointed me to where I could download a fix driver from.

Judge voids order against Letterman

Loonies.

MiamiHerald.com | 12/26/2005 | Fear destroys what bin Laden could not

How to tell the difference between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0

This made me laugh on the inside.

Here is what I did this weekend. The plan to write a very small application to find JPEGs on corrupted memory cards. Today I learned about GTK, Glib, Gthreads, DBUS and HAL.

Above is the prototype design for the $100 laptop. Have a closer look at the picture above. Am I the only one who noticed that the USB port is behind the hand-crank? I hate to be a nit-picker!

And I’ve been working like a dog. I have been at work for two months now. I am finding the days very long and tiring. I know that I am working very hard because I had to make my Start button two squares tall, and my screen two monitors wide. That is how I know that I work hard.

…want want want!

Does anyone know of a good calendar program for windows? I would like one that will allow to interoperate with other calendars (iCal, publishing to web etc.)

I have been using Sunbird but it sucks.

This is the new banner ad on dell.com:

[10:19:23] *** Gordon is Online
[10:19:37] <dbc> That's hot!
[10:19:46] <gordon> Do you love it?

(I only have mspaint.exe to hand at the moment, sorry for the poor anti-aliasing and lack of drop shadow skills!)

Sunrise at Bryce

Originally uploaded by marc_omorain.

I have uploaded more photos from my trip to America this summer. This set was taken at Bryce Canyon. The canyon looked like Mars.

I have just had a most enlightening conversation with ‘R’ from Dell. I am looking to buy a new PC for home use, and we went through a system, with her trying to sell me all the extras, while I was trying to tell her that I didn’t want any. I told her that I didn’t want the ‘free’ printer, and that if I could save money by not buying the printer, I would prefer not to buy it. She countered my argument by saying that the default printer is a very bad printer, and that I should upgrade to a more expensive one. Obviously. I also asked her if it would be possible to not take all the junk software that comes with the PC. She told me that these were items that were not in her power to remove, which is fair enough. Dell like to bundle junk with everything.

Now for the punch line. ‘R’ warned me that I have no word-processing software installed, and no internet security. I told her that that was OK, because I could take care of all that myself. “No”, said ‘R’. She told me that “it is illegal to install any old software this PC”. I replied by asking her “How is it illegal for me to download OpenOffice and install it on my PC?”. Now quite bothered by me she warned me “I’m just telling you that to install software from any old CDs on this PC is illegal“.

Stop Hammertime.

Originally uploaded by Rich Anderson.

Aine and I saw a sign just like this on the Quays on Saturday night.

Amazon.com: Playmobil - Security Check Point

Áine and I went to Galway the weekend before last. On the way home from some fantastical ‘Nite Club’, we went for a Supermacs. There was an American couple at the till beside me when I was ordering, and they were asking the Man Behind The Counter what ‘Coleslaw Chips®’ were. They had heard from someone that Coleslaw Chips® were the thing to have in Galway obviously. However, the Man Behind The Counter was not very talented at English, and was unable to manage more than a point in the general direction of the deep-fryer. So I turned to the couple and told them that Coleslaw Chips® were in fact chips covered in cabbage and mayonaise. The woman turned to the man and said ‘Are you sure you still want them?’; ‘Yeah, I have to try them!’ he replied. The woman was a little perturbed by the idea, and chose to have garlic chips instead.

On our way out of the restaurant I went over to the couple, who were still eating, and I asked them how they liked their Coleslaw Chips®. The man looked at me, with a beaming smile that stretched from ear to ear, he raised both his thumbs and said ‘OhMyGodManTheseAreSoAwesome!’

Deja Vu?

Originally uploaded by marc_omorain.

It’s the start of a new College year, and the VDP show their mastery of mailing lists once more. When I was in second and third year in college the same thing happened: they set up the member’s mailing list as a public forum, so that any email to the list goes to everyone else in the list. It started out with one email erroniously going to everyone, followed by a second, followed by everyone asking to be removed from the list. As the day wore on today, more and more people asked to be removed from the list, which generated more traffic on the list, prompting more people to ask to be removed.

I myself also asked to be removed from the list, but I mailed the VDP committee list, because I am SMURT.