Whykay's happenings

Mick's blog is back

Well, it's at a new home now... textdrive. And he has taken simplicity to heart with his design. Welcome back!!!

My site was 3 years old yesterday

Ok, nothing phenomenonly is going to change (for now)... heh. So, enough of the celebrations... wha..?

Anyhoo, I have uploaded 2 pics to my flickr and I am wondering why I don't use it to add the pics to my blog?!? Well, I have it set up for all my blogs including my current experimental photo blog.

Privacy is only to people who are registered with Flickr. I want to be able to send a special password to folks and let them view the pics, and not have everyone in the general public see them. Plus I like them to be on my site, as I have been stung so many times by photo sharing sites over the years, and I keep losing my pics I carefully selected.

I don't like to upload by hand and man-handling, that is why my older photo site is a bit dormant. Given how easy it is with blogs nowadays. But I don't like to upgrade to MT3.0, and wordpress has a nifty plugin which I use, but still, does not have the sharing permissions ability that I want. I tried using httaccess but because of the nature of the plugin, for each pic, it asks for p/w (if you don't enter it correctly)! That is a tad annoying. You should be allowed to see the post or not. Plus it's Perl and PHP for the blogs aformentioned respectively.

So do I have a cunning plan...? That is for me to know and you to find out.

Just an update on the nano

My bro received it this morning. 5 working biz days, on the dot! Engraved and all.

Nano, nano, where are you? 2

15 Sep 2005 17:21 Arnhem Hub Consignment Received At Transit Point
15 Sep 2005 17:19 Arnhem Hub Consignment Passed Through Transit Point
Tis the weekend, so will get it on Monday! Although I have 2 friends who have got it from shops last week since I ordered.

Nano, nano, where are you?

14 Sep 2005 15:46 Hong Kong Consignment Received At Transit Point
14 Sep 2005 03:22 Shenzhen Shipped From Originating Depot
13 Sep 2005 03:59 Shenzhen Consignment Received At Transit Point

iPod Nano winging its way!

Ok, here is the situation, the USB part of the shuffle broke on my bro, so I wanted to get it fixed. Problem, have Visa receipt, but where the hell is the actual receipt.. this was way back in March. Sigh.... anyhoo... ordered a black iPod Nano for my bro. Looks so cool tho, and now the reason for this blog.. it's shipped!

14 Sep 2005 03:22 Shenzhen Shipped From Originating Depot

Anti-trust

Mick pointed this out (courtesy of boingboing). Really well made, and gets the point across.

AIB and online savings

Mick pointed out that you can set up your own savings account via AIB online banking! And the interest is quite competitive (wrt Rabodirect and Northern Rock), and from as little as €20 a month to a max of €1000 (you can ad-hoc add money which totals upto €1000 a month, or else it will reject the deposit). No, really, it's true, more information at AIB's personal finance page.

It's easy to setup, just log into AIB 24 hour online as usual, and find the Savings online link from the menu, fill out the simple standing order form (how much you want to save each month, how frequently and when it starts), followed by your pin, and voilá... savings account all setup.

You can transfer money anytime via the usual transfer money link (obvious, ay!). But seriously, I needed to see if this option allowed me to transfer money apart from my current account i.e. my deposit account. And it did allow for that. Which is really handy. Banking should really be this easy. To think I went through all the trouble of getting my passport photocopy proofed by my local Garda, tax information, bills... just to ready them to send to Rabo-direct. I suppose, I was waiting for Bank of Scotland to come out with a personal finance package (due end of this year). Good thing I waited. But I am still curious on what BoS has to offer though.

Confused

You know, I am at a stage in my career where I am a bit confused. I think I will just go and have another read of Paul Graham's (infamous) article called Great Hackers.

Hello Kitty round up this week

Been awhile, sorry. But had these open in my netnewswire. Heh.

First it's the Hello Kitty SD card. Comes in 2 colours, blue and pink. And also in 2 sizes : 128 and 256 Mb.

Now for the Hello Kitty chess set, but for $330 (approx)!!!

Please say your name clearly

Heh, OK/Cancel did it again, another "funny strip": http://www.ok-cancel.com/archives/comic/2005/09/voice-aggravated-system.html.

So reminds me of the ringing up Eircom about BB for home down in Limerick. Chasing them up was no fun at the time, but was amusing that I went through this voice system for channeling you through to the right person (if you are lucky). Don't you find yourself sounding stupid...

me : "O..N..E.."
eircom : "You have chosen 1 ... (blah blah blah)

Why do we all think we should be shouting into the phone reciever, really ennunciating each word?