I am impressed. Andy managed to find the answer on Google. I wasn’t sure you’d be able to find the pronunciation and the history of the word Seanchai on there, but then I should know better than to ever doubt Google, eh? For the record the Seanchai were traditional Irish storytellers, and it’s pronounced “shawn-a-key”….
Spent the day at the Irish Festival today, and let me tell you it was hot. Not just the weather either, although obviously with the sun blazing down and the temp well in the 90’s, the weather certainly was hot. But the music at the Celtic Rock stage was hot as well. I arrived just…
Spent a little time today adding a couple of products from the “Back to School” line over at the One Man IT Department store. I’m not completely sold on the image on the briefcase, but the cooler looks excellent, and it’s even on sale right now! I might work on a different image for the…
Picture this, it’s 11:45PM, the wife is soundly sleeping, I’m well on my way, when I hear my pager. It’s the work voice mail system paging me to let me know someone left me a voice mail. Someone leaving me a voice mail at 11:45PM cannot possibly be a good thing. I get up, go…
Here’s why the copyright police are dangerous, not because they want to protect copyright, but because they want to protect copyright above any other right. So you wind up with situations like this. An innocent home movie of someone’s cats get’s red-flagged and deleted by a hosting company because they think it might be copyrighted…
So, there I was, settling in after the telephone debacle at work, popping open my copy of Amphetadesk in yet another attempt to get somewhat caught up on my tech news and tech blog reading, when the browser opened up with a bizarre error message about something HASH being outside the allowable array for use…