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Congratulations to Tony and Saori on their recent wedding in Japan. And thanks for bringing me back some sake.
Normally this stuff comes in bottles so I was quite curious when I got these:

I’m half way through the one with the pink flowers and it’s bloody lovely. I’m going to save the other two for another [...]

I can’t handle my drink anymore. It’s a good job the Blog Awards are an annual event. I’m actually still feeling a little bit rough around the edges.
The hotel was fantastic, service was brilliant but the staff were a bit busy needless to say which is where one of my curious incidents that I mentioned [...]

I’ve almost recovered from the Blog Awards party. What a night! Full house and the run of the Cork International Airport hotel for the duration. None of it would have been possible without Mulley’s hard work in arranging it all. He did a terrific job. Congratulations to all the winners too!
Lots happened that I can [...]

I’m looking forward to the blog awards but there is a bit of a meme going around about who you would like to meet there. Rick O’Shea thought it up and is is described as thus:
“Name 5 bloggers you haven’t met in the flesh before that you’d like to say hi to at the Blog Awards, [...]

I’m quite happy with running Wordpress on this blog, performance is superb especially with Donncha’s Super Cache plugin. (see the difference that can make here) However recently I have been asked as a favour to host a few sites for friends and acquaintances. In fact I’m already hosting Frob’s site for him and the site [...]

A sincere thank you to those of you who nominated me for the Irish Blog Awards.  I’ve been nominated in the category for Best Personal Blog for this blog and in the Best Technology Blog/Blogger category for my all too often neglected tech blog. (I’m working on a new post for over so be sure [...]

I was out walking with Lucas this morning and although it was cold it was also lovely and clear. So I decided to take a few photos to try to make up another panorama.
Most of you know that I have another site that serves as my main website. It is in a bit of a [...]

It’s enough to drive you to drink.
A friend bought a new laptop for his son recently. Nothing special about the laptop, an Acer Extensa 5220 but quite nice nonetheless as a surfing, mail and watching DVD’s machine. They bought in mid April and it went kaput 5 days ago so he asked me to take [...]