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Putting things into perspective
My poor son. He’s only 2 years and 4 months old but in another 60 years he will still be paying for Fianna Fáil’s failed policy of throwing cash at problems in the hopes that a solution may present itself. No doubt by now you are all fed up of hearing about NAMA, “going forward [...]
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10th Anniversary
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 [...]
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Hotlinking is bad but I can make it worse
I feel so ashamed. I’ve just been extremely bad. Someone in Brazil changed their theme on blogspot and very nice it is too I have to say. His design is excellent but for one thing. He is hotlinking to an image on my server. I’m getting hundred of hits for it so I figured I [...]
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A letter to our leaders who seem hell bent on destroying us
Be warned – This post contains some strong language. Anglo Irish Bank’s annual report released today states that it loaned €451m to 10 clients that are now more commonly referred to as “The Golden 10″. As anyone can tell you, 450 million is a significantally more than the previous estimate of €300m. And here is [...]
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Defiling my Macbook
With the recent demise of my only Windows PC I have been using my Macbook in its place. All that is well and good except that one of my classes in college is ‘Business Applications’ which should really be renamed ‘Microsoft Office 2007 and nothing else’ Naturally like any other class I have a few [...]
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Adobe Flash is crap except for this hamster
In the normal run of things I rank Adobe Flash as one of the most hateful creations in the history of the planet, universe or whatever. Strangely my next most hateful creation is Adobe Acrobat Reader. Coincidence? Mind you, every now and then something comes along to remind you that maybe Adobe Flash is not [...]
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It’s bloody started already!
It’s the middle of October.The 16th of October to be precise and I’ve just seen a flaming christmas ad on the T.V. Sadly it was for a funiture supplier so it seems they haven’t bothered taking any notice of Grandads Open Letter to them. It seems that the marketing droids are determined to Americanise all [...]
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Mixed emotions
Waterford were beaten as you all no doubt know by now. I guess it was to be expected but no doubt no one expected the wholesale slaughter that ensued. I’m sticking with my theory that the entire Waterford team were fed an dodgy curry for breakfast. To be honest that is how they looked on [...]