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Be warned – This post contains some strong language. Anglo Irish Bank’s annual report released today states that it loaned €451m to 10 clients that are now more commonly referred to as “The Golden 10″. As anyone can tell you, 450 million is a significantally more than the previous estimate of €300m. And here is [...]

Just checking my logs – Hmm “not a single visitor since 10pm last night?” Strange. “I know my DNS server was down for maintenence but I definitely recreated my DNS Zone.” Quick check, “Bugger! I forgot to add an entry for blog.sweetnam.eu!” Oh well, I’m back now.

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 [...]

Dead Seagates seem to par for the course for me these days. Back in August I had two fail on me and now the remaining one from a RAID aray in my main workstation has died on me overnight. What makes it strange this time is that I was reading yesterday about the 1TB Seagate [...]

I think I have finally had enough of the festive cheer. Combined with the fact I still have almost three weeks holidays left I think I have gone a bit mad. I was clearing out my computer room and came across an old PC that served me well in the past. It was a faithful [...]

I was heading home having finished my last exam yesterday around 11:30am. About half way between Clonmel and Ballymacarbery on the opposite side of the road was a damaged BMW 318. As you can see from one of the photos below it was just abandoned on the road just after a blind corner! No sign [...]

You were on the N25 yesterday climbing up the sweep hill outside Dungarvan in the overtaking lane heading towards Cork. I know that merely by being a BMW driver that you own the road and you can do what you want with it but try to have some decency for those who would like to [...]

It’s the middle of October.The 16th of October to be precise and I’ve just seen a flaming christmas ad on the T.V. Sadly it was for a funiture supplier so it seems they haven’t bothered taking any notice of Grandads Open Letter to them. It seems that the marketing droids are determined to Americanise all [...]