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All Ireland final, today in Castlecomer:

Glanbia 1-11

Molex 1-07

Woo!

Game Politics tells us of self-righteous media-whore lawyer and christian-right mouthpiece Jack Thompson’s latest outburst of indignation and outrage at soon-to-be-released game, “25 to Life”.

Jacko claims that California law allows police to seize this game from shops without a warrant. Sig heil, Jack, you fuckwit.

Word (i.e. a post on the UTV newsgroups) has it that Eircom are upping the speed of wholesale broadband products on the 21st of January. The changes should be as follows:

> 1m/128k goes to 2m/256k
> 2m/128k goes to 3m/384k
> 3m/256k goes to 4m/384k
> 4m/256k goes to 5m/512k

I’ll have some of that! UTV, you had better increase your smelly 8 gig cap, and maybe while you’re at it, drop the ridiculous per megabyte fees for going over it. Magnet charge 50c/gigabyte over the cap which is fair. UTV charge about 11 EUROS per gigabyte.

UPDATE: From this thread at boards.ie - inside information from eircom apparently. They are finally upping the download caps to more realistic levels.

> 1m/128k goes to 2m/256k - Cap going from 8GB/month to 24GB
> 2m/128k goes to 3m/384k - Cap going from 16GB/month to 30GB
> 3m/256k goes to 4m/384k - Cap going from 20GB/month to 40GB
> 4m/256k goes to 5m/512k - Don’t think this was capped anyway, was it?

No change to the miserly “time” packages. You’re a sucker if you went for one of these anyway.

UTV, I’m looking at you now! Caps - sort it! Read more »

New SATA hard disk arrived from Komplett today, bringing me another step closer to that magical 1TB number!

Battery University (heh) has a good guide to using lithion ion battery powered equipment (laptops especially) in such a way as to not trash your battery prematurely. The basic point seems to be that if you’re using a laptop on AC power for any extended period, take the battery out. Apparently long exposure to heat in a fully charged state is bad for Li-ion batteries.

Congratulations on the new job - going to slip back into the student life in Carlow when you’re back, eh?!

Anyone who drives in Ireland should give this site a look. Its an online database of Irish petrol station prices, using Google maps to show you where everything is - very clever. All it needs is for more people to update the prices regularly and it could be a great resource for Irish drivers. Read more »

Apparently this has been around for a while, but as Charles Manson said in Family Guy: If I haven’t seen it, its new to me!

Warning: If you are a Jesus freak, you won’t like this one little bit. If you have a sense of humour, you probably will.

Featuring the legendary Cat Helmet (or melon cat, as they put it)

Link.

Word has it that Fox are in talks with Matt Groening to do a Family Guy style revival of Futurama in the near future. Nice! Read more »