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Four months since I last made an update! Maybe twitter really is killing the blog? I think that in the not to distant future this blog might be subjected to the mighty powers of “rm -r -f /home/blog*” In the meantime I’ll leave this here:

My poor son. He’s only 2 years and 4 months old but in another 60 years he will still be paying for Fianna Fáil’s failed policy of throwing cash at problems in the hopes that a solution may present itself. No doubt by now you are all fed up of hearing about NAMA, “going forward [...]

Way back in May 2005 I started my original blog. I still have it archived somewhere here but my primary motivation that time was that I had a static IP address at home and figured I would host it myself along with my wiki. Almost 5 years later and now this blog has a new [...]

Continuing the training theme from my last post here’s himself tuning up and getting ready to belt out a few riffs:

Himself was giving me a hand reinstall a couple of my servers today. As you can see on the monitor behind I’m starting him off relatively lightly with Windows Server 2003. Early next week we will be moving on to the Sun Solaris boxes underneath the Dell Poweredges.

First off I better explain what a WISP , it means Wireless Internet Service Provider. For this sorry tale the WISP in question is OceanTelecom who operate in West Waterford/East Cork. I got a call the other day from my friend’s wife who was having problems receiving mail from her eircom.net account when using POP [...]

I’m getting very tardy here lately. 12 days since I last posted something and even then that was mainly a copy and paste job. I could write about the weather but we have been relatively lucky down here. I’m beginning to think the town is radioactive because it was snowing everywhere within a two mile [...]

Apparently just by copying & pasting the quotes below I can be fined up to €25,000 as The Republic of Ireland’s utterly draconian blasphemy law has come into effect just a couple of hours ago. I’m an equal opportunity offender though so courtesy of blasphemy.ie here is as much blasphemy as I can copypasta. List [...]