We want to you to experience as much as possible about Ireland, and its rich cultural heritage, through our online presence. We hope that your time with us at o'Gills will leave you with taste of what the Irish experience is about, and leave you wanting to come back to us again.

[ o'Gills ]

Best selection I've seen. My order came 100% correct in about ½ the time I expected, and looks perfect. And I had questions regarding the products I was thinking about, the answers came very quickly. If you are looking for any hard-to-find Irish anything, I highly recommend o'Gills.

I used the word perogative but the spelling looked wrong, so I tried to look it up online. There is no such word, the correct word is:

pre·rog·a·tive Listen: [ pr-rg-tv ]
n.

1. An exclusive right or privilege held by a person or group, especially a hereditary or official right. See Synonyms at right.
   
2. The exclusive right and power to command, decide, rule, or judge: the principal's prerogative to suspend a student.
   
3. A special quality that confers superiority.

adj.

Of, arising from, or exercising a prerogative.

[ yourDictionary.com - American Heritage Dictionary ]

So, Bobby, it's Your PRErogative, but I expect you to rerecord the song, and this time enunciate.

A British street artist known as Moose creates graffiti by cleaning dirt from sidewalks and tunnels -- sometimes for money when the images are used as advertising. But some authorities call it vandalism.

[ NPR ]

Perhaps they should pass a law making that much filth and grime a crime. And here I thought that England had cleaned since the industrial revolution...

Link letters and create words to feed the hungry, hungry Bookworm! But watch out for fiery red letters... they’ll burn your library down! It’s vocabulariffic!

[ PopCap Games - Bookworm ]

Steve passed this gem along to me, and I promptly installed their Pocket PC collections on my Dell Axim. The Bookworm game in particular is rather addictive. Looks like they have Palm versions as well, but I can't vouch for them.

Now if only they could post high scores when I sync in my cradle.

Today, possibly tomorrow. And I'm sure Nate has it reserved, so I'm thinking... Truck problems? (Ouch, was that uncalled for?) But I'm sure he'll be reviewing it soon anyway.

Two worlds exist, unaware of each other. Mana, or life force, is shared by both worlds and while one world thrives, the other suffers.

Lloyd Irving lives on Sylvarant, a dying world where nothing is as it seems - a fact he hasn't yet realized. With a strong set of justice, incredible bravery, and a particular loyalty to his friends, he joins them in a very important quest: a journey to save their world.

Lloyd's close friend, Colette Brunel, is the Chosen One, destined to save the dying world as a descendant of the Mana bloodline. At the age of 16, the weight of the world hangs on her shoulders.

Genis Sage, the village intellectual, is a talented magician with a personality to die - or kill - for. Most likely, you'll grow to love him.

Together, they set on this dangerous journey together - to unlock the seals of the world and bring the balance back to their dying town on Sylvarant.

[ Tales of Symphonia ]

I've got $a(B0001OK7VW,it) in my $gf(GameFly) Queue, to try before I buy.

In order to appreciate Homestar Runner, you need to get past the queasy feeling of uncertainty and illogic. I have now found the panacea for this condition:

Sweet Cuppin' Cakes Decemberween Special

This “spin off” from Homestar Runner is so confusing, that watching it will make any other Homestar item appear 100% normal, if not two or three hundred percent.

[ For Trevor ]

Here's a somewhat interesting article:

MARS

When you select a set of rows using a SQL SELECT statement, either as a stand-alone or inside a stored procedure, SQL Server doesn't automatically produce a cursor over the set of rows as some databases do. Instead, it uses an optimized method to stream the resultset across the network, on occasions reading from the database buffers directly as the network library pulls the data in packet-size chunks. This is known as "the default resultset of SQL Sever" in SQL Server Boks Oline, or "the cursorless resultset". In versions of SQL Server prior to SQL Server 2005, there could only be a single cursorless resultset active on a single connection at a time.

[ Data Access and Storage Developer Center: ADO.NET 2.0 Feature Matrix ]

But the real reason for pointing out this article (besides MARS technology) is the new SQL Server Boks Oline. I've done a bit of research and no one has any details about this new feature of MS SQL. But it sounds pretty spiffy if you ask me...

So based on an off comment by N8, I went browsing on Amazon.com to see how many games are available for PS2 now, that will never be out for GameCube, that I would consider buying.

For Xbox this came up with about 2 or 3 games, and all but Halo are also out on PS2.

For PS2 this comes out to 14 games, and that's just a casual browsing on Amazon.com, and also doesn't include any upcoming games that I might like.

14 games is hard to shake a stick at, and hard to ignore. Why must I be tormented? Perhaps there is someone who owns a PS2 and has had such a bad experience that they wish to warn others away, and such comments might stop me before I buy again...

Link Already Used Gmail by Google, This link is all used up. The link you followed to create a Gmail account has already been used to create an account for YOU@gmail.com

[ Google Search: site:gmail.google.com "Link Already Used" ]

Someone evil is bound to stumble across this and start harvesting gmail accounts. I hope that Google is ready with some seriously good spam blocking algorythms...

Props to Steve

Cafe Asia Restaurant is indeed back in DC at 1720 I Street NW:

And from the Nasi Uduk I had for lunch, I can safely say that the quality is on par with the Rosslyn locale.

NASI UDUK

Indonesian coconut rice platter with spicy beef, crispy anchovies, pickled vegetables, emping (acron chips), gado-gado, chicken satay, & spicy prawn sauce.

[ Cafe Asia Menu (PDF) ]

However, their website sucks. And I mean sucks. For an establishment that has had such good success, and a decent eye for style, it amazes me what they tolerate for a website. It's ugly, 100% flash, hard to read, hard to navigate, non-sensical, and not even finished (try pulling up entrées in the flash menu).

Log in to Gmail before going to the link (let me know if you want an invite).

We're still spiffying things up a bit. In the meantime, we've listed the status of a few features most testers have already requested and a bevy of bugs that our engineers are working diligently to fix.

[ Gmail: Help Center ]

POP3 is the one feature that I think would be required for me. If I can't have my phone tell me when a new mail has been received, how would I know that I have mail? I can't be expected to remember to pull a web page up on a regular basis, can I?

My favorite thing on the list is “Spell check's not checking contractions” since they put a contraction in that list item, I hope that was someone's idea of being funny.

Although my fish abuse SpongeBob, and he's mostly just a place for algae to grow on, I like the kitsch that it adds to my aquarium. However, it makes me sad to think that SpongeBob can't go home, since there is no pineapple in my aquarium. Perhaps it's time to pony up the cash:

Now your fish can live in SpongeBob's tropical abode! Molded pineapple design with a door and window openings for fish to swim through. This great aquarium decoration is recommended for 10 gallon tanks and larger

[ SpongeBob's Pineapple House ]

Or, perhaps I just just get a small crab pot, and mock up the Krusty Krab.

Anyone else dislike CDOSYS (née CDONTS) as much as I do? Anyone else have a preferred substitute?

FreeSMTP.Net is a free SMTP component for the creation and sending of e-mail messages in .Net. Written in pure C#, FreeSMTP.Net is fully managed and incredibly fast. It is totally object oriented and flat out the easiest way to create and send Internet email. Best of all, it's free.

[ VB.Net, ASP.Net, C#... ]

Now that my .NET skills are decent enough, and I know what I can do an how fast I can do it, I'd love to use some of that in legacy code. Black Knight might be the answer, but how can I tell. It is an obscure enough “thing” and I'm not even sure exactly what it is. I have noticed that I can still build CFX tags in VisualStudio 2003 just as I could in VisualStudio 6, but since I've never written any c++ code, and everything that I disliked about c was increased 10 fold in c++, I don't think I'll be doing that any time soon.

Black Knight™ is the first extension to allow CFML developers to make full use of native .NET objects without having to build a custom COM bridge. This alone can save an IT shop dozens of hours of development time.

[ Black Knight™ ]

What would be awesome is if someone familiar with this product just happened to stumble across my site, and offered up their opinion. Since I doubt that will happen, the idle speculation of current and previous coworkers will have to suffice.

However, this lessens the blow:

1. Launch Acrobat ...
2. Go to Edit->Preferences ...
3. Click on Internet
4. Uncheck Display PDF in browser

[ Opening Acrobat PDFs in IE ]

Single dads will still make time for their favorite team once in a while, but you'd be hard-pressed to find one that devotes significant parts of his day to video games.

[ MSN Dating & Personals ]

I think I could find one...

Perhaps the author doesn't realize that some video games are 2 player, and kids can handle that...

If there are as many details about the Sidekick II out when this hits the shelves, and T-Mob carrys the Moto A630, I may not even think twice about picking this up...

Bringing you the connectivity tools you demand and the style sophistication you crave, the Motorola A630 breaks into the mobile scene with an eye-catching design and powerful feature set. At first glance the sleek and ultra-compact model A630 appears to be a small candybar handset; however a closer look reveals that the device can be flipped open to reveal a full QWERTY keyboard and vivid color landscape display.

[ Motorola Motorola A630 ]

Update: “The Motorola A630 is a Cingular Wireless exclusive at launch”

Hind sight is 20/20, isn't it?

When you access a page after an AppDomain load, for example, when you modify the Bin directory or the Web.config file on computers running Microsoft Index Services, you may receive the following error message:

Server Error in '/MyWebApp' Application

Configuration Error

Description: An error occurred during the processing of a configuration file required to service this request. Please review the specific error details below and modify your configuration file appropriately.

Parser Error Message: Access is denied: 'mydll'.

[ Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 329065 ]

I'm thinking that every time I had an error that looked like this, it was the friggin' Indexing Service.

Unfortunately not. Spork rarely appears on camera. But I think they could make this medley their own. (Warning: This is a direct link to a WMV file...)

[ Mario Medley ]