cool: May 2008 Archives
As readers may have gathered I've been looking into the entire buying a house experience over the last while.
My experiences to date have been mixed, but I am learning quite a bit in the process.
The guys behind Daft.ie have been extremely helpful and gave me access to a really nice feature before unleashing it on the public earlier today. You can now subscribe to property alerts via RSS!
It's a really nice feature, as I check bloglines a couple of times every day anyway. I can also easily mark items (in this case houses / properties) to check again later. Of course I could try to do that with the email alerts as well, but if you saw my inboxes you'd understand how impractical that might be!
Now if only finding an ideal house, mortgage and everything else were that easy!
My experiences to date have been mixed, but I am learning quite a bit in the process.
The guys behind Daft.ie have been extremely helpful and gave me access to a really nice feature before unleashing it on the public earlier today. You can now subscribe to property alerts via RSS!
It's a really nice feature, as I check bloglines a couple of times every day anyway. I can also easily mark items (in this case houses / properties) to check again later. Of course I could try to do that with the email alerts as well, but if you saw my inboxes you'd understand how impractical that might be!
Now if only finding an ideal house, mortgage and everything else were that easy!
There's no reason why ordinary household objects can't be a bit of fun.
I've got several boring door wedges that I use when I need to give the house a bit of an airing (like today!), but I'd be tempted to get a couple of these for a laugh:
More info here
I've got several boring door wedges that I use when I need to give the house a bit of an airing (like today!), but I'd be tempted to get a couple of these for a laugh:
More info here
When I was a lot younger I used to be a big Prince August fan.
At the time they didn't have as many moulds and models to choose from, but over the last few years their range has been expanding quite a bit.
Their latest crazy offer is the moulds for the soldiers on the left for a mere EUR2.50 during the month of May.
I think I still have all the original moulds and other bits and pieces in a box somewhere and I really should get round to digging them out.
At the time they didn't have as many moulds and models to choose from, but over the last few years their range has been expanding quite a bit.
Their latest crazy offer is the moulds for the soldiers on the left for a mere EUR2.50 during the month of May.
I think I still have all the original moulds and other bits and pieces in a box somewhere and I really should get round to digging them out.
Last.fm's team have made available a couple of web applications that they put together in their spare time.
The "Playground" currently has three applications which take advantage of the huge amount of music data that last.fm aggregates.
You probably won't improve your life much with any of these little apps, but they are fun to play with.
Checking the typos of artists names can be a great way to while away the time, but you could also use the info for seo.
Of course if you wanted to manipulate the data yourself they do offer both data feeds and a full API (though there are licensing conditions to be aware of). For the top artists for users in Ireland try this XML feed
The "Playground" currently has three applications which take advantage of the huge amount of music data that last.fm aggregates.
You probably won't improve your life much with any of these little apps, but they are fun to play with.
Checking the typos of artists names can be a great way to while away the time, but you could also use the info for seo.
Of course if you wanted to manipulate the data yourself they do offer both data feeds and a full API (though there are licensing conditions to be aware of). For the top artists for users in Ireland try this XML feed
Top Gun is not a "chef d'oeuvre', but it's great fun.
It has dated a bit since its initial release over 20 years ago, but it's still enjoyable (Yes I do have the special edition DVD and the HD DVD release.)
So how about Top Gun tshirts?
It has dated a bit since its initial release over 20 years ago, but it's still enjoyable (Yes I do have the special edition DVD and the HD DVD release.)
So how about Top Gun tshirts?
While I have my reservations about the film I Robot the latest special edition boxset is truly impressive.
Of course you'd have problems fitting it in with your "normal" DVDs.....
Play are currently offering it for about 77 euro including shipping. I presume they'll ship it to Ireland, as it would be classed as a DVD, but if anyone knows otherwise please let me know
Of course you'd have problems fitting it in with your "normal" DVDs.....
Play are currently offering it for about 77 euro including shipping. I presume they'll ship it to Ireland, as it would be classed as a DVD, but if anyone knows otherwise please let me know
