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I’ve been obsessively poring over my log files again. I always find it interesting to see what combinations of operating systems and web browsers visitors to my sites are using. I’ve recently resurrected Sawmill to analyse reports from my reverse proxy which gives me a nice overview of all visitors to all my hosted sites. [...]

Last week a friend and I took ourselves off down to the Black Valley in Co. Kerry. The Black Valley has the distinction of being the last part of Ireland to be connected to the national electricity grid. Indeed it is still something of a black spot for telecommunications. As recently as last week a [...]

You may have already seen my earlier post with the photo of the fossils on Hook Head. I took quite a good few photos of elsewhere on the Hook and here are some of them:

Today myself and a friend took ourselves off down to Wexford aiming for Duncannon Fort. While there we drove around Hook Head and it was by the lighthouse there I took this photo of fossils embedded in the limestone there. The fossils themselves are of a marine animal that still lives in the oceans of [...]

Now that things have finally settled down I can finally get around to getting a lot of the things I had planned for my summer holidays done. First up was to try to aggregate all my online presences from Twitter, Flickr Last.FM etc. I was considering using FriendFeed but since I’ve recently been extolling the [...]

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.

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 [...]