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Anti-Trusted Computing video

This little video about Trusted Computing is excellent. It pretty much sums up my feelings on the matter. If they don’t trust me, why should I trust them?

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List with a twist

  • Picked up my new Sony Ericsson k750i yesterday. I went up to the Carphone Warehouse on Grafton St on Tuesday to sort it out as my old t630 had been damaged by water and was basically beyond repair. I have insurance so the new k750i only cost me €129. Considering I was contemplating paying €500 for a Nokia 6680, I think it’s the right decision for my bank balance.
  • I went to see The Finest play a gig last Saturday in Whelans. I met two of the band members, Lougho and Campbells, at Oxegen and have met up a few times since. They’re a quality band and could well be headlining the “Bus Arena” next year at Oxegen. 😀 Their set included a smashing cover of “The House of the Rising Sun” as well as a few of the tunes from their CD, “On The Line”. I was hoping to see them this Friday in Bray but I have a wedding the next morning so it’s looking unlikely.
  • I’ve been reading a lot of commentary on Hurricane Katrina. I’ve yet to blog about it as I’ve been collecting material and will post an entry at the weekend.
  • Some of the posts I’ve been reading on Katrina form a group of posts I’ve kept new in Bloglines. Problem is that the list of posts is growing and I’m not having time to trim it back. 😐
  • Dave and Michael have both posted about Mint, a new script to analyse stats and stuff for your blog. Dave gave it a great review but I’m waiting to assess whether I want to buy it. My LunarPages account comes with Webalizer and awStats but they tend to be a bit hard to read.

And the twist….there is no twist. How u like them apples? 😛

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Sevens

Ok I decided to do this after Janine, belated, tagged me. She should have tagged me in the first place. 🙄 😆

Seven Things I Plan To Do Before I Die

  1. Earn good money to do the things I want
  2. Visit New Zealand and Nepal
  3. Have kids and a family
  4. Live by the sea
  5. Visit Old Trafford after Malcolm Glazer leaves the club
  6. Support Ireland at a World Cup
  7. Become a DJ

Seven things I can do

  1. Work solidly and professionaly at my job
  2. Be a half decent striker at footie on Fridays
  3. Procrastination – i’m really good at that
  4. Coach football – although I need to get better
  5. Be funny and open around people – no bullshit
  6. Use semantic XHTML for lists – *points at Janine* 😛
  7. Take good photos

Seven things I can not do

  1. Swim
  2. Drive – hopefully solve that within the next few months
  3. Watch a football match without using bad language
  4. Cook
  5. Approach people I don’t know easily
  6. Lie
  7. Let people be overtly rude to me

Seven things that I find really attractive about the opposite sex

  1. Smile – first and foremost
  2. Sense of humour – absolutely essential cos half the time I’m joking
  3. Sense of self – knowing what you’re about and feeling comfortable with it
  4. Nice eyes
  5. Breasts – what I’m being honest?! 😀
  6. Legs – see above
  7. Monica Belluci

Seven things I say the most

  1. Pele what?
  2. Nightmare!
  3. I’m grand 🙂
  4. FUBAR
  5. Alright horse?
  6. Who?
  7. Whats the story?

Seven Books I love
This sounds crap but I’m not a book person. I don’t read many books and the ones I do are few and far between. 😳

Seven people I would like to see take the quiz
I’ll only give two cos I’m lazy and they’re the only people who stand a chance of doing this.

  1. Neil
  2. Dave
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Google – don’t search for us

I’ve been reading about a bizarre story about how Google have refused to talk to CNet for the next year because they wrote an article containing information on Google’s Chief Executive, Eric E. Schmidt. Basically CNet writer, Elinor Mills, used Google itself to find out public information about him which she then published as part of an article on the amount of data Google collects. Now Google have decided not to talk to CNet. 😕 CNet have since published a funny apology.😆

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Ya might as well jump!!

These kittens are fantastic. 😀 Leaping all over the place and doing tricks (via Neil)