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Himself was giving me a hand reinstall a couple of my servers today. As you can see on the monitor behind I’m starting him off relatively lightly with Windows Server 2003. Early next week we will be moving on to the Sun Solaris boxes underneath the Dell Poweredges.

Lucas is two but some ground rules have been laid out already as to what I cannot buy him for Christmas this year:

A model Tie Fighter.
A model Millenium Falcon or indeed anything related to Star Wars.
Anything to do with Star Trek.
Anything to do with Stargate.
A new MacBook.
Anything to do with guns, weapons and the military [...]

It’s Lucas’s second birthday today but as it’s Monday we had a bit of a party for him yesterday instead. He’s a happy little man with his new tricycle!

As illnesses go the flu is a nasty bugger. I haven’t had it myself in years as I used to get regular vaccinations at work. So for the first time in years and for exactly a week now I have been freezing cold one minute, roasting the next. I’ve been shaking, coughing and wheezing. Unable [...]

Time flies when you are having fun or not as the case may be. In my mind all I can think about is ten years ago when my father died suddenly. Has it really been that long?
So much has changed in those ten years. My father would be a grandfather now. Each time I look [...]

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 [...]

I missed out on getting the 9th seat on Youghal Town Council at the final count by 93 votes after the final count. But I’m not half as disappointed as you might think I should be!
Given that I was only selected as a candidate just 5 weeks before the election meant that I would have [...]

The last two months have been an absolute blur.
All of April was spent preparing for my exams the last of which was on the 7th of May. From the 8th of May I was out pounding the pavement as much as possible. I’m now into my fourth and final week canvassing and althoughI’ve covered most [...]