Monthly Archive: August 2008

Aug
29

This is the end my only friend: Goodbye to East Point

You know since September last year, I have been working for DoubleClick you see. And we have been located in a business park named East Point here in Dublin. Then after a while, I learned about the proposed deal of Google to purchase the company. So the anti-trust agencies looked into it, US eventually approved, …

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Aug
27

Ryanair, upgrade your servers, and do some math

Dear Ryanair, you know there are people out there who actually want to book flights. But can’t do it, because of these reasons: 1) You say the flight is so and so much, but in reality you add 20.00 EUR for some unknown reason – which is interesting when the price is 186 EUR, and …

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Aug
10

Pimp My MythTV: Now with YouTube support

So this weekend I was kinda bored and was thinking about something productive I can do so I wouldn’t be sitting at home, alone, lonely, and dying from boredom. Well of course some geeky stuff comes to my mind. I was thinking that it would be cool if MythTV, my PVR solution of choice, would …

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Aug
10

Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy", on a Theramin

In case you don’t know: a Theramin is a music instrument invented by a russian named Theramin somewhere back in the 1910′s. It is played without being touched. And this is what you can do with it, almost a hundred years after its invention.

Aug
05

UFO Phenomena: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs

The theory of UFO’s visiting our world stretches back in time to interesting periods. Sightings allegedly go back to the roman empire, and even to old cultures like the Inca, Maya, and the Egyptians. Some say the explosion of UFO sightings in the last 50 years has to do with the fact that we learned …

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Aug
03

Fatal exception at Super Bikes

So I went to see the new X-Files movie, and usually I have a game at the consoles there. Well no one is gonna ride a bike today. Good job Windows :p