Advogato: Personal info for AlanHorkan

AlanHorkan is currently certified at Master level.

Name: Alan Horkan
Member since: 2002-09-14 15:39:05
Last Login: 2007-07-21 17:25:16

Homepage: http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/

Notes:

Code may not be my main contribution to Open Source but I make myself useful with a little bit of everything (usability, bugfinding, general helpful encouragement).
Alan particularly likes cross platform software like AbiWord, Mozilla, OpenOffice, and projects like Inkscape, Dia and the GNU Image Manipulation Program.

Alan is moderator of the Gnome Usability Mailing list.
Alan can often be found on irc.gnome.org usually on the channel #abiword.
Alan's email address is horkan a at maths dot tcd dot ie
Alternatively you can try contacting alanhorkan at Gmail or Yahoo! although these addresses get checked far less often.

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Projects

Contributor on Abiword
Helper on Mozilla
Helper on Freeciv
Contributor on Film Gimp
Contributor on GNOME Usability Project
Contributor on OpenClipArt.org
Contributor on GNOME
Contributor on Evangelism
Contributor on Inkscape
Developer on Dia
Developer on GIMP
Helper on GtkGraph
Contributor on Conglomerate
Contributor on GNU Paint
Helper on Gnumeric
Contributor on Sound Juicer
Helper on Eye of Gnome
Helper on GNOME UI Improvement Project
Developer on GNOME Games
Contributor on KDE
Contributor on Beer

Articles Posted by AlanHorkan

Mark Finlay a.k.a &quoSisob&quo 10 Jan 2004 at 19:45 UTC
&quoSecurity&quo Co-opted by Business Interests 15 Sep 2003 at 16:35 UTC
St Patricks Day 13 Mar 2003 at 18:41 UTC

Recent blog entries by AlanHorkan

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11 Dec 2007 »

Brevity: Mournes 2007 Climbing Trip Report in Twenty Words

Climbing trip report in twenty words*.

Trinity. Mournes. Soup. Drink.
Flooding. Fire brigade. Four dinners. Mulled wine. Drink.
Pidgeon Rock. Climbing! Hot Ribena. Orange Monster. Drink. Porterhouse. Home.

* twenty unique words is close enough.

Syndicated 2007-12-11 01:36:49 from Alan Horkan

24 Nov 2007 »

As seen on TV!

Late on a Friday evening at the computer and with an episode of CSI Las Vegas playing on the television I unusually didn't switch channels as soon as the advertisements came and on was surprised to see Durex advertising a vibrator on television. Don't recall seeing Durex advertise on television before, so advertising a vibrator seems that bit more unusual and interesting.

Specifically:
http://www.discoverplay.co.uk/dial_up/the_range/vibrations.asp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e66tPREEHXo

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Curiouser and curiouser.

Insert witty comments below about not having a girlfriend...

Syndicated 2007-11-24 00:30:46 from Alan Horkan

4 Nov 2007 »

Bad haiku

sad but true
a knocking on the window
hope it was you

Syndicated 2007-11-04 21:19:38 from Alan Horkan

19 Oct 2007 »

Can't stop the signal

TV-links may be gone (for now) but there are alternatives such as
TV RSS, and
All U C. Efforts to close down TV Links will likely raise the profile of these and other alternatives even higher.

What you might not realise is that streaming is supposed to be a convenience, downloading but in the background and playing at the same time and then disposing of the files when finished. Which would be fine if you aren't interrupted or do not want to watch the stream again, but a horrific waste of bandwidth if you are forced to download it all again. Having said that the convenience provided by this need breed of website is very impressive and hints at how much more the World Wide Web might yet surprise us.

Syndicated 2007-10-19 22:42:08 from Alan Horkan

18 Aug 2007 »

Cyanide and Happiness: Breakup?

Would make a sweet t-shirt: