Whykay's happenings

My photos site is up

Yup, it's at http://www.kaykays.com/photos

http://photos.kaykays.com is a re-direct to http://www.kaykays.com/photos.

Some are password protected, so mail me (those who know me have my address) if you want the password.

Spam the spammer

From the reg, a good article about an email spammer who got his just desserts by getting physical spam through his letterbox! :D - Spammer gets junk mailed

Yay, Santa is very much alive!

Au contraire to a red-faced vicar, who thought it was funny telling children (he thought was older) that Santa is dead. Here is Santa's reply in the following BBC article : Santa: 'I'm not a Superman, but I do exist'.

Big Brother Plan in US

No-one will be safe in the US. All information of US citizens will be processed and the outcome may help prevention of terrorism. It sounds like it is from the movies, such as the recent Minority Report, but click on the following BBC News article for further reading - US eyes Big Brother plan Be afraid...be very afraid.

Speeding fines for a baby!!!

This is a funny read that the wrong person, a baby, was charged with a speeding fine! Fair enough that the name is the only one found in UK, but check the date of birth - Toddler attends court to deny speeding charge

Google 2002 Timeline

Check this out - Google 2002 Timeline and its top searched keywords at the time for each month
And Google blog about their end of the year zeitgeist Check it out, it's pretty cool.

Bad day today

I'm feeling sick, so not really in a blogging mood. But I 've got new joiners in my IBC message board. :)

Yay, oish is blogging!

Finally, Oish has started putting content in his blog. :-p (No pressure whatsoever from me!)

Totl human virus scanner

From TotL.net Human Virus Scanner, and the results are:

Human Virus Scanner

The virus that have infected you will be show here along with thier cures, if known.
Viruses you suffer from:

Pokemon
Pikachu! Use your hyper-electric-get-a-life move now!

TotL
Go read Brunching

Linux
Install the latest version of Microsoft Windows. Learn to love it.

Junkfood
Eat some real food. Something which you can identify the source of every ingredient, not the point of manufacture.

Sci-fi
Stop wearing the stick-on ears.

British
No need for cure. Benign virus.

Japan
Big is good. Small is bad. Giant robots would not make a good last line of defence for Earth.

UNIX
Anything this old must be obselete. Go and install a nice modern operating system. I hear MSDOS has come a long way lately.

Windows
Try MacOS X. It's based on UNIX, it has a smoother UI than Windows and it doesn't suck.
As an extra feature the boxes look nice.

vi
Escape Meta Alt Control Shift.

Free BSD
The GPL isn't that bad really. Adopt a penguin at the zoo.

Politics
Stop caring!

Brand Names
Having a well-known name doesn't make it good.

Computer Games
Stop staring at the screen and get some fresh air. You should see a doctor about the RSI in your thumbs.

Environmentalism
Consume more stuff! It's easier to buy new stuff than to recycle.

Macintosh
Use a mouse with more than one button.

Viruses you might suffer from:

USA (80%)
Rule, Britannia! Britannia rule the waves! [repeat]

Religion (60%)
Read "God's Debris" by Scott Adams (yes, the Dilbert guy)

8-Bit (90%)
Polygons, all the polygons you can get are not enough.

BBCB (70%)
CTRL-Break, and get a real computer. Repeat: "Mode 7 was not a good thing."

X11 (60%)
I hear Mac OS 10 Aqua is nice at this time of year.

Hippyism (93%)
Free love is passe and potentially dangerous, and patchouli smells like cat piss.

More Quizzes!

Yup, I accidently stumbled across this quiz blog site, while I was browsing weblogs.com.

Morning, day, or night? quiz by maikamariel

What Pattern Are You?

I'm Hello Kitty Star Fairy!

Oooh, lots of photos

But it cost me EUR50 for 4 rolls of APS films to be developed. Ouch! Ok, digitial camera has to be invested in! It is costing me on average around EUR100 each year... But I'll be busy scanning photos, and I'll have them up at http://photos.kaykays.com (password protected of course, which is the only compromise I can get to put the pictures up (discriminating or not). So many photos to create and upload (so much work!). My BF found this site - http://www.amk.ca/python/code/gallery.html, where you can download and use a really simple Python code to generate thumbnails, re-size pictures and output a simple html code. That was cool and simple. Can hack at the code to output more useful HTML code. But thanks to that person who created the code - http://www.amk.ca/.

Integrated Smartcards for public transport

So the government is trying to bring in smartcards (like the Octopus I wrote about in one of my blogs recently). They want the cards to be first used with the Luas, but won't be available till 2005. Read the article - Transport smartcards expected by 2005 from electricnews.net. So if we do get this implemented, we would be the 3rd European country to use it (after Paris and London metros).

Composing Poetry with Sheep

I hear you say 'What?'... check it out here - Sheep are sprayed with words to create poetry from Ananova.com.

Totoro

Totoro is soooo cuuuute! I use to find it hard to find Totoro stuff, but now it is everywhere. Check this one good link - Totoro Links. I've got more stuff on creator of Totoro - Miyazaki Animes at my IBC message board.

PANZER DRAGOON

Boy, Neil would hop up and down when he sees The Art of Panzer Dragoon, and I would presume that he would have already visited the Panzer Dragoon Official Website

Dublin City Transport

It's still atrocious as ever! This morning, 3 buses were scheduled to arrive in 30-40min, and guess what? No buses. Huh! There were plenty of buses leaving the city but all the buses that are coming in to the city, seem to turn off the the depot, and no buses were arriving to the stop at all! There was hardly any traffic, and I was tempted to walk. But you have the nagging feeling that when you are just across the road, the bus will come, it's the "just another 5 mins" thing, I suppose...

So, since I was waiting at Parkgate St. and was not having much luck (neither were the 20 odd people standing there as well), I thought, why not go to Hueston Station? So I got there, hopped on the 90 and off to the city I go. But was that slow. Why on earth would you have bus lanes if the buses are going to be stuck anyway! I just don't know how the public transport works here at all, ok, they are crap. And they are thinking of unifying the bus and rail (Dublin)!!! They can't even get the ticket machine to dispense tickets that are used the most : the 10 journey ticket. But that will be replaced by a 7 day ticket, same price, but not as flexible as the 10 journey. Argh...! Living in the big city, you would have thought that the amenities are so near by, that it is handy to get anywhere. NOT in Dublin.

Asian & Asian-American Pop Culture

It's a magazine. They have a nice simple site: -Giant Robot Seems like they have been around for awhile. They are US-based, of course. They have their own store : - http://secure.giantrobot.com/ Get your cute, wierd and funky asian gear here!

Robbie Williams Blog

Teehee... I found Robbie Williams blog site - http://www.johnnyagogo.com/rw/index.php

Burning popcorn

Wow, prob the only type of popcorn I do not like. It's burning popcorn. :)

World Aids Day

Participate in Link and Think for world aids day - http://www.linkandthink.org/
For more info, go to World Aids Day

Check who is linking to you...

..This page will show you who is linking to you. You are curious now, aren't you... - http://www.technorati.com/