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Check out the new theme! This is “Pixel” by Sam. Also updated to the latest version of Wordpress which broke a couple of plugins. I do like the new dashboard/control panel though.

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You may have noticed a sudden burst of short and poorly formatted posts here. This is because I’ve linked Wordpress with my Twitter account using this Wordpress plugin. Any old shite that I tweet to Twitter is getting crossposted to here for posterity. New posts here also get spammed out to my (very few) Twitter followers also.

I wasn’t particularly bothered with Twitter in the past since they shut down free SMS to Irish numbers, but now that I have the iPhone I’m using Twitterific on it, which is just as good.
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The browser game comes of age. This is impressively good for a browser based game. Still requires Windows though, but they say they’re working on Linux and Mac versions.

Its pretty much exactly the same as Quake 3 was when it came out 10 years ago, except that the computer I had back then couldn’t run it

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Microsoft’s Skydrive service upgraded its free storage from 5GB to 25GB this week as part of Windows Live Wave 3, which is nice. I’m using it as a free online backup of all my digital photos, which currently weigh in at about 13GB. Now, if only my broadband could upload faster than 384 kilobits per second…

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Your line will be upgraded on the weekend of the 9th August

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Pity my line noise stats are so awful that it is unlikely to go any faster than the 3Mb I have already!

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I’ve been using a clunky Excel spreadsheet to track my fuel economy since I bought my current car just over a year ago. Now there’s a much simpler way to do this, via the web. Spritmonitor.de lets you plug in your mileage information after each time you fill up and automatically will calculate your average economy in L/100km, imperial MPG and US MPG.
It can generate fancy icons for use on blogs, forum signatures, etc as well. Like this:

You can click the icon for loads more information.

It can guesstimate your co2 emissions based on the car you drive and the economy you’re getting out of it too. This came up after I entered information after filling the car this evening:

Consumption: 7,15 l/100km 636 km and 46 l
CO2 emission: 167 g/km 636 km and 106 kg
Fuel costs: 9,45 EUR/100km 636 km and 60 EUR

I like it

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I saw this linked on boards.ie today:

Stephen Fry is a legend.

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I don’t hate America or anything but some pretty stupid things come out of court cases there. Such as this.

Google must divulge the viewing habits of every user who has ever watched any video on YouTube, a US court has ruled.

wtf?
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LOL.

Internet legend goatse strikes again! I heard about people using the Spore Creature Creator to make fucked up spore porn on This Week in Tech and that’s what I got when I went searching
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I saw this on boards.ie’s Grand Theft Auto forum last night and thought it was excellent. Someone has gone and remade the famous intro sequence from The Naked Gun in GTA4

Here is the original intro from the film:

While we’re at it, here’s the Family Guy version:

Crap quality but its the only one on Youtube. It gets extra points for the Doom reference

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