http://www.keavey.net/blog My random thoughts and hopefully the odd cool thing! Fri, 24 Oct 2008 21:00:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The look of disdain from the other cow says more than I ever could :-) [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="500" caption="Cows are stupid"][/caption] http://www.keavey.net/blog/archives/123 One word: Genius :-) http://www.keavey.net/blog/archives/120 Now in these days of environmentally friendly goodness we all try and refrain from producing printed output when we can. But every now and then there is something that we absolutely have to print and so the aim is keep it as brief and concise as possible. The ... http://www.keavey.net/blog/archives/119 Some people have an almost irrational opposition to Microsoft and everything they do. I'm not one of them, when they do good things I praise them, when they do bad things I criticise. So this morning they are well and truly in the corner with their dunce cap on. ... http://www.keavey.net/blog/archives/115 We've all been there.  Someone keeps parking in "your spot".  You go to the fridge and there's only an empty milk bottle.  Every day for the last week you've arrived at work to find your office door unlocked when you know you locked it the evening before.  Some of us ... http://www.keavey.net/blog/archives/110 Cakes are an ideal foodstuff for celebrations of just about any kind.  We've all seen those impressive pieces of art specially commissioned for whatever event it may be, birthday, wedding, funeral.  You get the idea. Some times however things don't go quite to plan. [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="400" caption="Happy Weeding Day"][/caption] Or [caption id="" ... http://www.keavey.net/blog/archives/108 Ah, internet memes. Where would we be without them. They come along, make us all laugh for a few days and then disappear. Who can forget Dramatic Chipmunk, Diet Coke+Mentos, Numa Numa, Star Wars Kid or All Your Base Are Belong To Us. Not to forget 2 girls, ... http://www.keavey.net/blog/archives/103 So I wrote way back when about my purchase of the Apple TV and how for me it was exactly what I needed. In my original assessment I didn't think that the original lowly 40Gb hard drive was going to be a problem but as with all things storage ... http://www.keavey.net/blog/archives/88 The perils of reporting in a warzone! http://www.keavey.net/blog/archives/85 Recently there was a news story that the UK government was considering the introduction of monthly crime maps showing the nature of crimes in a local area in an attempt to close the gap between the actual recorded crime figures and the general perceptions of the level of crime. ... http://www.keavey.net/blog/archives/84 There are now something over 13 million CCTV cameras in the UK making us the most spied on nation on Earth.  It's a full on 1984 scenario but as was recently reported they aren't stopping crime.  ArsGeek has a piece on an unsigned band called Get Out Clause who finally ... http://www.keavey.net/blog/archives/81 I've been a big fan, and user, of TinyURL for years.  In case you haven't come across this or similar sites yet the concept is simple.  These days URLs can be huge, the one I'm using to type this is 184 characters long!  These are a pain, especially when emailing ... http://www.keavey.net/blog/archives/80 This is a clever take on society and our "lost generation". http://www.keavey.net/blog/archives/79 Retrievr is a cool idea.  It allows you to search for Flickr photos by simply drawing them.  Now I'm the world's worst artist and even I can find photo's that look like what I'm drawing.  This is clearly at an early research stage but it is nontheless interesting. retrievr http://www.keavey.net/blog/archives/78 OK so this on sits in the too much time on your hands catagory but in case you ever need it, this site will take text that you type and turn it upside down.  ˙(-: ʇuoɹɟ oʇ ʞɔɐq puɐ uʍop ǝpısdn 'ʎlsnoıɹǝs. http://www.keavey.net/blog/archives/77 An interesting Alan Watts talk set to a nifty cartoon. Deep. Take note! http://www.keavey.net/blog/archives/76 You might ask why he didn't see this coming but it's much funnier that he didn't http://www.keavey.net/blog/archives/75 I've blogged a couple of times regarding Wordpress and how easy it is to set up and how well it works.  Well here I am again.  I am now running v 2.5 which is the much enhanced admin interface version. The upgrade went totally smoothly.  Upgrading the previous 2.3.x versions had ... http://www.keavey.net/blog/archives/74 I'm a huge fan of RSS and currently have close to 60 feeds subscribed to (via Google Reader).  Obviously that's a lot of articles to go through and I read only a small percentage of these.  One problem is that many of these feeds are from sites that kick out ... http://www.keavey.net/blog/archives/73 This is cool. A robotic "animal" capable of recovering from a side swipe, walking on ice and jumping. It is being part funded by DARPA and they brought us the Internet so be warned! Bow down before your future overlord. http://www.keavey.net/blog/archives/72