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On the top is Lucas in July 2008 when he was 8 months old. Underneath that is a photo of Lucas taken approximately in the same position today, April 20th 2009. A big change in 9 months! Click for bigger!

This June we will be asked to vote to choose our representatives in our local councils and our representatives in the European Parliament. It is with great honour to announce that I will running as a candidate for Fine Gael for the Youghal Town council alongside two existing Fine Gael councillors, Barbara Murray and Michael [...]

All is quiet here on the blog front. halfway through semester two at college and the assignments are coming thick and fast. I intended on finishing off a Sociology assignment today that is due in tomorrow. instead I’m suffering from rather severe mental block. More coffee I think.

Seems to be a bit of a trend at the moment with people wanting to see what other peoples desks look like. So much so there is even a dedicated site and even Grandad has his for all to see. However I’m going to show what’s under my desk (bench) instead, click for bigger. Like [...]

I’m finally back in college for semester two. Things kind of got off on the wrong foot when we all arrived in for our lecture at 9am on Monday only to be told it was moved to 2pm. Ah well, these things happen. So we have started Sociology for this semester which is the only [...]

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 [...]

But then I found out that Command & Conquer Red Alert is now free to download so I’ve been playing that and Red Alert 2 for the past few days. It’s almost out of my system now. I’ve finished Red Alert and almost there with RA2. A bit if trivia for you. I ended up [...]