Installing Google Chrome for Linux. Yes and I know that it’s not available yet #

@blacknight any coupon codes for .com? I’m going to buy one tonight! in reply to blacknight #

@blacknight haha It’s ok, I just checked the price and their only €6! I thought they were something like €20 or €30!! in reply to blacknight #

Just bought http://www.conormacaoidh.com and I will be setting it up tonight hopefully. Can’t wait to get my new MU working #

My iKnights code is 199-248-630. I am going crazy for this thing so add me! #

#webme MU is brilliant! I am writing a shopping cart so that people can buy websites and have them set up at the click of a button! #

Sick of my bad graphics on Fedora. I am downloading OpenSuse. Then I will build a fedora sis video driver – in the long term #

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@brilliantthings wow you found me! great gig yesterday guys! If your ever looking for a support act #domaff are available! :L #

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@elliottkember what a cool idea with the excel thing! Oh and I love your website – JavaScript CRAZY!! #

I’m ripping – I missed the bus to Sligo!! Nooo #

Another one in the bag!! Yeah. I’m finished and I beat my target! I completed 10 websites in seven days. Now that’s crazy #

@elliottkember Why pay for an app? Open source all the way! in reply to elliottkember #

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Just listening to the new budget… God it’s not good.. Less money for everyone! #

Last night was the best night of my life! I still can’t believe that we won… the other bands were so good… #

@Out_Of_Step Epic it was! The sextons run a good party! Let me know when it happens again in reply to Out_Of_Step #

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YEEES!! I feel so stupid. After looking into fixing my laptops audio problems for a week I figured out that the volume was turned down!! #

Just finished a few website variants. I’m starting my new temporary job tomorrow! :L Bloody designer… better than nothing i suppose! #

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It’s brilliant just being able to surf the net and look at stuff instantly. I remember having to wait like five minutes for a page to load… Thank god that’s over. What to do now? No doubt that I’ll be bored of the Internet in a week. i think i’ll just set up all those things that I was deprived of during my phase of slow Internet.

World of Warcraft! I am going to leave it downloading tonight, there’s only another GB left of download! Can’t wait to get started with this game it’s just the €10 a month fee that’s putting me off slightly. I’ll just have to keep going on a 30 day trial! Google Reader is another one, read all my feeds from one place. Oh and I can now look at slashdot! Also I can get around to setting up my new recently acquired domain name; macaoidh.mp

Had a hell of a lot of bad experiences with BT down the line though. They have left a lasting impression anyway if that’s what they were trying to achieve! One phone operator actually told me that I was lying on the phone. It’s great to build up relationships with your ISPs!

I’m on the 1mb package at the moment which is fast but not very fast. Next month I will be upgrading to 3mb. Now that will be good. Now I better get back to staying up all night on the Internet.

This big step came about when I got sick of my crumy speeds using the 02 modem, which is very susceptible to the weather and that’s not been good lately! Anyway I had a long phone call with 02 and somehow managed to get rid of my 12 month contract with them three months in!

Then I went looking for a broadband provider. I opted for BT (Yes I know their british but their cheaper!). Unfortunately this bears another massive blow to me financially. I recently spent all of my money on an Oxegen ticket! woop woop! So I will have to figure out a way of earning €50 a month. Not a bother to me, don’t be suprised if you see me out begging on the streets though!

Our line has not been active for like 3 years so they have to send someone out to activate it (2-3weeks) then put the order for the broadband through (max 2weeks). But the main thing is i’m getting broadband and that kicks ass.

1. I was sixteen on 19th September > Virgo (What a sign – a fucking  mermaid!). I am still in fifth year at school which i absolutely detest. In fact the only thing that is keeping me in there is the promise of College. From my perspective that is heaven! Parties all the time – and when there are no parties I will be studying for tests by Programming! What more could you want? I should probably mention that I have been in an all Irish school for my whole life and that I talk Irish at home. Native language gotta be done. Oh and just for the record my name, Conor Mac Aoidh is pronounced “Mac í” or “Mac e”.

2. I play the Drums in two bands > The Pot Smokin’ Pirates and The Dominican Affair. Guess which one I enjoy more? I started the drums when I was 13. Before that I played the bodhran (What a load of shite). I went to drum lessons for about a year then I tought myself. When I finished teaching myself I moved on to teaching other people. At the moment I am practicing for the local Panto. I have done it three times before, it is good crac on the night. Gotta hate the music though! The Pot Smokin’ Pirates where the first band I joined, or should I say formed! They were a school band but soon enough I discovered that school and rock music don’t go so well together! We used to practice in the lead singers garage. One day his older brother asked me to join his band ‘The Kamikaze Potato Men’. Thats when I really got to grips with the drums – I was playing with a band three years older than me! Eventually ‘The Kamikaze Potato Men’ got rid of the lead singer, found a new one and formed The Dominican Affair!

3. I am Oifigeach na hAirgeadais for Ógra Shinn Féin Muineacháin. I don’t want to delve to deeply into this because once you start me I can’t stop! Basically I support and am a member of Sinn Féin. I am in favor of a democratic-socialist, anti-neo-libiralist, egalitarian 32 county united Ireland. Make Partition History! 26 + 6 = 1.

4. Oh what else… I am half Scotish, half Irish and was born in England. I used to collect Warhammer! God I have to include that because it was not a minor thing in my life. For those of you who are familiar with the way it works, I had a 3,000 point Empire Army! That is pretty massive for a ten year old in fairness. The strange thing is that I used them for display. I only ever played a couple of times and found the games to complicated. My main concentration was actually painting the things. I used to paint them like a machine. I also had millions of nobles and all that I couldn’t use because I didn’t have enough points to incorporate them! Come to think of it my first army was High Elves. By the end of my Empire collection I had gotten pretty good at painting the models. Then I started with Bretonians. I had just enough of them to play – two core units and a general. I recently got rid of almost everything in my collection. I kept only a few things. My two best painted pieces – ‘The Green Night’ and a Celtos model which I made a cool base for. Also I have an old White Dwarf from the 80′s signed by the Eavy Metal Team. I might Ebay it! I think that I have enough to make a core unit and general army at the moment!

5. PHP. This tagged thing is directed towards the language users so I had better talk about it. I started learning HTML at the end of 2007 as part of a school transition year course. I didn’t pay much attention to it at first. Then by chance I got work expierence with the local web design company, webworks last summer. That is were i learned CSS and began on PHP. Not to soon after that I got hooked on the language and I love it! I am currently writing Furasta CMS, which will be in beta of it’s first “stable” version by the end of next week, hopefully! I am a linux user and have been since November! I started out with Mandriva One 2009 and then recently moved on to Fedora 10. I think that Linux bears a big role in the future of computers in general.

6. I can fight. With a sword I mean! I trained for Medieval Historical Re-enacting for too many years. I did all the shows where you dress up and people stare at you and ask you if they can look at your sword. It’s not all it’s cracked up to be really. It’s like any other physical sport. You do the same thing over and over and over untill you can do it in your sleep! Then finally once you have done it for a few years you dump the wooden swords and go on to metal! I have to say the proper equipment is pretty cool. It’s quite tough to fight with armour actually because it weighs a ton. I learned how to fight with a sword. shield, staff, pike, bow and arrow and claymore. I haven’t really done anything with it in the last year but there is talk of it starting again so you never know!

7. This is tough… Em… I am an atheist. I believe that believing in God is a completely personal thing and that it should have nothing what-so-ever to do with the state and especially the schools! I don’t have a problem with anyone else that believes in god I just hate the fact that so much trouble has been caused in this world because of religion. I was not baptised and brought up to make my own decision – and I have! It annoys me that my school gets massive “grants” from Catholic Associations and therefore it is a Catholic School. Not only that but the fact that I have to take time out of classes to go to mass four times a year. Basically I think that religion in schools should be eradicated, but the religion class should be kept. I think it is a good idea to discuss religions and to make people aware that there are much more religions out there than Catholicism and that they should make their own decision rather than blindly following the crowd.

Now onto the tagging. I am bound by the rules to tag seven other people. The problem is that I only know one PHP developer and that is the person who tagged me! So for now I will leave this part. But I will update it once I meet other enthusiasts, so I’m not breaking the rules!

Rules

• Link your original tagger(s), and list these rules on your blog.
• Share seven facts about yourself in the post – some random, some weird.
• Tag seven people at the end of your post by leaving their names and the links to their blogs.
• Let them know they’ve been tagged by leaving a comment on their blogs and/or Twitter

As I have mentioned before I recently developed a site for The Strats. I knew while making this website that it would not support ie6, but I carried on regardless because I thought that it was out of date. Apparently not. Once the site was completed I got ‘the piss ripped out of me’ by people reviewing the site simply because of its lack of ie6 support. Basically i would have to completely re-design the site just to support this one browser… which I am frankly not prepared to do! Thankfully I found a JavaScript library that makes IE6 appear to have near native png support, but why bother?

If you are not aware of ie6 and its terrible over all performance then I have listed some of the facts for you.
1. IE6 was released in 2001. When it was released it failed to comply with at the time modern style rules, and is still behind in how to implement CSS 2.0.
2. IE6 is very unsecure, loads of bugs were found when it was released, and many of them have still not been patched. Here is a nice site that lists all of the bug fixes that they had to make for IE7: Feature Changes for IE7.

The main point that concerns web developers is the lack of compatibility with CSS style rules. This does have a massive affect on the amount of work that has to be done to display a webpage properly. In most websites you can see multipal stylesheets being used, usually a stylesheet specifically for IE6. Also to fix most of the problems with the browser people have written hacks. It makes you wonder once again, why bother?

I also have a list of the best IE6 hate sites… just in case you get a bit carried away and decide to get involved!
1. 100 reasons to hate IE6.
2. 6 Reasons why IE6 must die.
3. Dear IE6, i hate you.
4. 50 reasons to club IE6 to death.
5. Trash all IE6 hacks.
6. I hate IE6 Dot Com
7. Free the web.

I understand that IE6 is technically not yet out of date. About 42% of people use IE7, with its percentage growing slowly. About 32% use IE6, with its percentage decreasing slowly as users switch to IE7 and other browsers. The fact is that IE6 is still used by a greater percentage of people than that using firefox. In the end of the day I have concluded that a web developer is payed to do their job, which is to make a website that works. It is not up to us, as developers, to decide what we should support, we should go with the flow. Who wants to hear all these developers moaning (I’m soo contradicting myself here!) about IE6. We are getting paid, it’s not the end of the world!

Heres a link that I agree with! Stop being a dick, support IE6.

Then when I thought that I had this post all done and wrapped up…. I saw this statement that made my day! I have just taken the key point out of the article, to see it in full go to: Internet Explorer 6 – Wikipedia

“IE6 will be phased out completely in early January 2009”

I cant wait… Only two months and we can forget about IE6!

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Today i bought my first internet connection. I am now using an 02 3G modem. The problem with this is that I don’t have access to 3G in my remote area. So.. I am using GPRS speeds, which is just a bit faster than Dial Up! But I should be greatfull that at least I have a connection now! Thank God!