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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 [...]

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 [...]

Regular visitors might have seen my previous entries about some 419 scams that I received in the post. For those who do not know what 419 means – it is a form of advance fee fraud. You might know them from spam e-mails or snail mail that claim you have won a share in some [...]

Frequent visitors to it will obviously have noticed the redesign of the BBC News home page. It’s basically similar in layout but it has a new style and some new features. According to themselves the redesign now takes into account that most people view the site with at least a screen resolution of 1024×768 so [...]

Mulley and Michele have mentioned it already. The Royal Mint in the U.K. have revealed their new coin designs. And they are incredible. Kudos to the Royal Mint as they seem to have made coin collecting interesting again.

Some family members were greeted this morning with letters from the Irish Blood Transfusion Service. Not me though as I haven’t been able to donate for a few years. The letter was a notification of a laptop belonging to the IBTS had been stolen in New York recently and that records of some of my [...]

A quick glance at the news this morning gives the following: Toll road charges have risen between 10 and 20c since midnight The television licence has risen €2 since midnight If you are a truck driver you have a whole slew of new regulations to comply with Food and drink is expected to cost more [...]