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Continuing the training theme from my last post here’s himself tuning up and getting ready to belt out a few riffs:

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.

The end of October is almost here but despite the evenings getting cooler and the nights closing in, our garden is still in bloom. This afternoon Lucas was pointing at something on the floor and it turned out to be a Ladybird. I picked it up and he was fascinated watching it crawl around my [...]

Photo of Lucas in the garden yesterday. I asked him to smile but I think he overdid it a bit!

Edit – I’ve made a complete and utter balls up of this post. Lucas is on the bottom left of the photo. And the ship is the MS Julia not M.V. Was up in the city today. While herself was off shopping, myself and Lucas were left to our own devices to wander about the [...]

I’ve been meaning to take a photo of this boat that is tied up at Harvey’s Dock here in Youghal. Anyone notice anything odd? Click for bigger.

Congratulations to Tony and Saori on their recent wedding in Japan. And thanks for bringing me back some sake. Normally this stuff comes in bottles so I was quite curious when I got these: I’m half way through the one with the pink flowers and it’s bloody lovely. I’m going to save the other two [...]

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 [...]