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Fucking hell its hot. Pasty white Irish people aren’t designed for this kind of heat. I like sunny weather but I also like not being covered in sweat all day.
65% humidity at the moment apparently. Kilkenny was the hottest place in the country yesterday, according to the news. I can bloody well believe it. I need about 5000 showers right now.

Centrino Hadware Control - Freeware program that allows you to control the speed of your mobile CPU, and some other bits and pieces, provided that your chipset supports them, such as fan speed, ATI mobile graphics chipset options etc.
Note: Needs Microsoft .NET framework 1.1 installed.

I got this in my email today from Bok, and its a great stress reliever: Crazy Frog baseball!

I just uploaded a selection of screenshots taken with the in-game camera in GTA San Andreas. You can browse them here. I find some of them fairly amusing.

Lots of explosions on the tube and on buses, nobody dead… yet.

Looks like everyone’s hitting the news sites to read about this, Reuters is giving the following message:

Server Too Busy
Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.

Exception Details: System.Web.HttpException: Server Too Busy


First off, “Marina Bay”? WTF? Does she have a cousin called Port Harbour?
This asshole is suing NASA for $300 million in damages (in a Moscow court) after they purposely crashed a probe into the surface of comet Tempel 1 in the name of scientific research. She claims that “any variation in the orbit or the composition of the Tempel comet will certainly affect her own fate”, and that NASA have recklessly endangered the future of civilization.

What a fucking idiot. I hope the court throws her case out and fines her heavily for wasting court time.

Full story is available at The Register (and elsewhere).

So the EU is finally putting pressure on Ireland and other member states with retarded tax regimes to abolish VRT and other similar registration taxes, as they are a barrier to the free market within the EU, and pretty much a load of shite in general. The EU is proposing to have VRT removed within “5 to 10 years”. I’m sure for Ireland that means there will be absolutely no movement on it until at least 2015 then.
What are the odds that the government will just introduce another unfair tax on already overburdened motorists to recoup the lost revenue once they are finally compelled to remove VRT?

Those of you who play Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas might be interested in this: The GTA San Andreas radio decoder! Unfortunately it only works with the Playstation 2 version of the game (at the moment), but it will allow you to extract radio music, DJ banter, commercials etc from the game files.
The same guy also has a Vice City radio decoder available too.

Nifty.

Update: Ooo, found one for the PC version!

Well, that was quite good wasn’t it? U2 and Paul McCartney kicked it off nicely with Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club. A lot of skeptics out there knock it, but I think Live 8 is a good idea, and it has got to be putting some considerable pressure on the G8 heads ahead of their meeting next week.

Image from BBC News