Fireworks on the 4th!
Some pics I took here of the Boston 4th of July Fireworks: http://www.flickr.com/photos/timony/tags/fireworks/ Of course it was fecking raining the whole time I was there. I thought they started at...
View ArticlePhoto used in Boston Guide!
Schmap which creates online tourist guides for cities around the world is using this the photo below on the Beacon Hill section of their Boston guide: See schmap.com for the guide.
View ArticleFirefox 2 & Tabs!
Yup, Firefox 2’s tabs annoy me a bit, if you’ve too many open you can’t see them all. Here’s how you go back to the old Firefox 1.x behaviour:...
View ArticleJetspeed Login Portlet & WebSphere 6.1
How to get the Jetspeed Login Portlet to work with IBM’s WebSphere 6.1. The default Jetspeed login Portlet doesn’t with WAS, it does work with Tomat, there is an alternative Login Portlet that can be...
View ArticleLighters to be allowed back on planes.
Now that’s a surprise, seems keeping passangers from taking lighters on airplanes is a waste of time and resources: http://www.nytimes.com … authorities have decided to stop enforcing a two-year-old...
View ArticleHmmm, phone lust
Got that new mobile phone lust. Some friends at home (Mick McG, and Murph) had Nokia n73 phones. They seemed OK, when I played with them. But, looking at the specs, feature list, and the pretty decent...
View ArticleSit at the back!
Popular Mechanics think the safest seats in a plane accident are at or near the back: http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/air_space/4219452.html 13206
View ArticleNokia N73!
I ordered the phone from Buy.com. They had it for $339 and a coupon for $15 off any purchase over $200. Subtotal after the coupon was $320, but as they have a warehouse in Massachusetts there is 5%...
View ArticleOrganic?
Great, big companies are trying to cash in on Organic produce by having the definition of what is organic changed to included “19 food colorings, two starches, casings for sausages, hops, fish oil,...
View ArticleOne wee coffee plant left?
Neat story about a coffee plant, found on only one island in the Indian Ocean, thought to be extinct: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5307047 In 1877, a European visitor, passing...
View ArticleHowe Caverns
Went to the Howe Caverns yesterday was a fun day. Was 90f/32C above ground and a chilly 52F/11C below ground! It was pretty cool!
View ArticleDMC-TZ3 Zoom
So I got the Panasonic DMC-TZ3 for my birthday, which was July 10th! It does take decent pictures, but they do seem a little feathery when you zoom in. My old Canon S200 seemed to take sharper pics,...
View ArticleBad, bad boss, naughty boss, have a cookie.
Hardly a surprise: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070803/od_nm/work_bosses_dc “The fact that 64.2 percent of the respondents indicated that either nothing at all or something positive happened to the bad...
View ArticleOld Pics!
I forgot I had these pics up on my old CS address: http://www.cs.umb.edu/~mtimony/Donegal/index.html The first set has a few pics taken up in Dungloe. Meself, me sister Jeannie, and my friend Sue spent...
View ArticleLinux Install Fest Aug 18th 2007 @ MIT
From the BLU Discussion List: Boston Linux Installfest XXVI When: Saturday, August 18, 2007 from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm Where: MIT Building E-51, Room 061 Parking: parking is available in front of the...
View ArticleFlickr Explore!
Cool: From http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/scout.php?username=bettlebrox&sort=date&page=1&makeimage=1 All the images: 1. Sunrise @ the lake, 2. Slieve League, 3. Boston Twilight, 4. Donegal...
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