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Way back in 1992 I spent a week as a recruit in the then FCA (now the Reserve Defence Forces) in Bere Island. One of the most memorable events was how we crossed over to the island itself. The island is served by a couple of ferries that are capable of taking vehicles but given [...]

If you are looking for an epic YouTube mash up then this is the one. Some guy took a load of YouTube videos of various people playin musical instruments and mashed them together to make an absolutely incredible mashup! Absolutely awesome! be sure to check out some of the others here.

It was interesting listening to the news on the radio this morning while driving to college to hear that the opposition parties are not too happy at the appointment of Richie Boucher as the new head of Bank of Ireland.I imagine they are not pleased because Mr. Boucher was already a BoI employee having taken up [...]

I’ve just had 7 IP addresses from Verizon crawl through almost every page on my domain. That is blog.sweetnam.eu, tech.sweetnam.eu, www.sweetnam.eu and sweetnam.eu. A total of 5368 requests, in 3 hours! Odd things is that none of the IPs in question were typical crawlers as each IP requested an entire page at a time. Given [...]

I’ve never used it as a music player! I shoved a few songs onto it when I got it first but I can’t remember the last time I fired up the iPod feature. And I have no idea what happened to the headphones that came with it. Lucas probably hid them somewhere I suspect. Probably [...]

I was on the road bright and early this morning heading on my way to college. My route takes me through Dungarvan, Co. Waterford where I turn off the N25 onto the N72 for a couple of miles and then onto the R672 to take me all the way to Clonmel. Only about a mile [...]

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Ever heard a song on the radio, television or wherever and wondered what it was and by whom? Yesterday I was poking about the Apple app store just to see if there was anything new of interest there. I came across Shazam and figured I would give it a whirl. It claims to recognise any [...]