Archive for March, 2006

Gmail:Messages per day Defined

Thursday, March 30th, 2006

I’m slightly irritated after finding this out - especially now that I’ve started using gmail for the bulk of my personal email. Google has a limit on the number of emails you can send from gmail per day. While odds of my sending that much email are slim, it’s definately not impossible, and I’m not […]

more restored functionality

Friday, March 24th, 2006

No-one apart from me has ever used to used it, and I’m probably missing a few of the times, but regardless I’ve restored the bus times wap app on this site + updated it with the galway/dublin times. Point your phone’s WAP browser (or use opera to http://fluffy.org/bustimes.php for the next ten busses to/from Galway/Dublin.

Pandora music recommendations

Wednesday, March 15th, 2006

I’ve been playing about with the pandora music recommendation project for the last day or so, having thrown in a few of my most played artists. Unlike audioscrobbler/last FM, which does recomendations based on what other people are listening to (which can end up being a lot of radiohad/U2), it does recomendations based on musical […]

real life simpsons intro

Thursday, March 9th, 2006

this is coming up everywhere - and it’s very well done…
real life version of simpsons intro - at least it’s a bit more interesting that those frightening sligo videos!

update22.03.06 turns out that the simpsons clip is a new advertising spot for a certain well-known satellite channel - and it’s on most ad breaks. Proof […]

IOL: Standardised taxi fares to be introduced nationwide

Tuesday, March 7th, 2006

I, for one, welcome our new regulated taxi driving overlords, who cannot refuse a fare within 30km, and must provide a receipt, unlike some of the current cowboys.
IOL: Standardised taxi fares to be introduced nationwide
(for what it’s woth, there are some fine, upstanding taxi drivers out there. Unfortunately, there is also a very vocal minority, […]