http://www.feckoff.net Random waffle about anything that catches my eye Sat, 12 Jul 2008 17:22:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I saw this linked on boards.ie today: Stephen Fry is a legend. http://www.feckoff.net/2008/07/12/stephen-fry-on-the-internet/ I've been driven crazy over the last few days trying to figure out why the hell my Windows Vista PC won't go into standby. Every time I tell it to stand by it goes through the motions and then immediately wakes back up again. I had set up various bits ... http://www.feckoff.net/2008/07/12/vista-power-management/ My favourite game of all time is still the classic TIE Fighter Collector's CD from LucasArts, released for DOS back in 1994-1995. I remember spending many, many hours plugging away at it back then. Today I got it running again on my modern, 64-bit Windows Vista system :) What you need: The game ... http://www.feckoff.net/2008/07/06/best-game-ever-made/ 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? http://www.feckoff.net/2008/07/03/privacy-counts-for-nothing-in-america/ I saw this in an episode of QI and laughed my ass off at it, so I went and searched YouTube for the clip... LOL. (yes it is manakin, not mannequin) http://www.feckoff.net/2008/07/03/moonwalking-manakin-bird/ 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 :) http://www.feckoff.net/2008/06/24/goatse-in-spore/ Does that cheesy music Eircom use in all their broadband ads drive you into an uncontrollable violent rage too? http://www.feckoff.net/2008/06/13/a-question/ 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: ... http://www.feckoff.net/2008/06/09/the-naked-gun-gta4-style/ Today I got my first ever puncture. It would be a bank holiday weekend that it happens on :( My car (07 Honda Civic) doesn't actually come with a spare wheel, but fortunately the space saver spare from my father's Accord is a perfect match so I've got that fitted at ... http://www.feckoff.net/2008/06/01/shit/ Brian Cowen has announced that the infamous Fianna Fail tent at the Galway Races is no more. Some of the posters over at The Property Pin had some amusing comments to make on it: daltonr Brian's no fool. Scraps the tent. Avoids having to face the builders. And comes accross as cleaner than Bertie, clean ... http://www.feckoff.net/2008/05/23/ff-builder-tent-is-no-more/