Georgie Casey

They caught him after a while when this gearbox went. 7 cars after him on camera, apparently 25 cars after him in total. What did he do?!? Via Boards.ie

Said I may as well attend one of these conferences and try to ‘network’ a bit in the ‘aul Internet marketing world. Or it could be just an excuse for tax deductible trip to Vegas The conference is on January 11th (Sunday) to January 13th (Tuesday) but I’m flying in the previous Friday, check out Vegas for the weekend. Staying at the conference hotel, the Rio which is off the strip. Anyone else going and want to meet up, shoot me an email georgiecasey at gmail dot the com or twitter

Heading to the big smoke tomorrow for All Blacks game and Cut Copy concert. I’ve a ticket spare for Cut Copy (def not All Blacks), maybe 2, if anyone wants one, cost price or best offer. email georgiecasey at gmail.

I’m not a fan of most Apple stuff, they’re overpriced and the hardware they use is cheap. They do make sexy looking stuff though, I’ll give em that. And they seem to get away with anything and still have their fanboy faggots drooling over them (I’ve experienced this species IRL in their herds at the diggnation filming in London).

Fan of the iPod and iPhone though. Not a fan of iTunes and Quicktime, which are required to update firmware on these two products. Quicktime is possible the worst piece of software I’ve ever used. It fecked up Youtube’s sound on firefox when it installed (with iTunes, which I need) by trying to play all video and sound files. So I went into settings and unchecked them.

Then I needed to update firmware on my Iphone to 2.1, which required an upgrade of iTunes, which required an upgrade to Quicktime, which changed back all my settings without asking and fecked up Firefox again. If Microsoft did this the bloggers would have a field day.

Always loved this ESB ad with the Dusty Springfield - Goin’ Back song. Wondered would it ever be on Youtube, it finally is somehow.

Was browsing forums on some private bittorrent sites lately and noticed that a tracker and website dedicated to Irish TV torrents has cropped up, about time too. The Brits, Yanks and Antipodeans all have one for their TV, why should we miss out! Site pretty bare with content right now but it should flesh out.

Looks like so called blackhat (is the term even relevant anymore?) expert quadzilla is organising a party at Oktoberfest along with other ‘experts’ where they’ll be divulging their top ’secrets’. All for the low price tag of 5 grand. Of course, ‘If you can’t afford the cover charge then this gathering is not for you.’ Lolz

Anyone who pays that kind of money for a session needs a kick up the hole, you won’t learn anything that isn’t freely available on the net or is just plain common sense. But I have to admire the cheek of the guy who regularly blogs looking for people to buy him dinner where he’ll divulge more ’secrets’. If you manage to get 10 idiots to pay you off and let you actually profit from getting wasted at Oktoberfest instead of spending the time infront of a computer making money, well, then kudos to you!

Last day before we all have to vote on the lisbon treaty. Since I read the facts on this before Christmas I’ve been strongly in favour of a yes vote. It’s a basic housekeeping exercise for the EU and I’m pro-europe as everyone in Ireland should be. The money we’ve received during the 80s and 90s was crazy, now we hear complaints from clueless fuckers that we’ll be sending money to the 10 accession countries. Our contribution is tiny compared to the UK and Germany, the latter has been bankrolling the EU project since its beginning.

It’s a good thing if infrastructure is improved in Poland and other countries, their economy improves and we can sell our shit to them. Some deals are win-win. I was sure this would be passed easy but with the scaremongering by the previously unknown Libertas, I’m not so sure now. All the main parties are in favour of it, does that not convice people? You only have the obsolete shinners against it (check out that united irelander blog if you’re looking for a good laugh btw).

This shouldn’t have went to a referendum, it should have been passed in parliament somehow like all other EU countries did. People don’t know what’s good for them.

Cushy little number at Mahalo, you get paid to play GTA4

I don’t know what’s happening at Microsoft, are they losing all the good programmers to ‘cooler’ companies or something because everything they’ve brought out in the last while has been crap. Installed the new Office and they completely changed the interface for Word and Excel to make it simpler. i.e. for fucking idiots who couldn’t use a basic piece of software like a word processor. After a many a Google I managed to find where they stashed away all the useful features.

But Outlook: what the hell is going on. I tried importing my 2gb pst file and it was going dirt slow. Can’t blame it, it’s a big file so i left it overnight. It had barely got a quarter of the way in the morning. It was importing an email every 2 seconds! With about 100,000 emails it would take a while. So I split up the .pst files into 200meg chunks and only loaded 3 at a time. 600 megs of pst files, surely it can handle that?

Nope. Flicking through emails slows the whole thing down no end. This is on a new comp with 4gb RAM and a dual core at 2.4ghz. You can’t search emails with any useful criteria until installing an addon called Microsoft Search Companion which is like Google Desktop only it hogs about 4 times the resources. Every now and then with Outlook not open the system would slow to a crawl when this thing would start indexing. So I uninstalled that.

And send receive… is just unusable. It starts off lively and then just… halts. Computer completely unusable until this finishes. Hard drive whirring like it’s processing terabytes, mouse barely moving. It takes about 5 minutes to download 10 emails. Loads of people with similiar problems as me, businesses who spent 20 grand on Outlook for an entire company.