Archive for January, 2009
Parting is never easy…
Sadly the time has come to part ways with my beloved sports car. I've reached that stage of life whereby I have to appear all grown up and sensible. My 2-seater, 150bhp, 2.0l straight 6, limited edition, BMW Z3 just doesn't fit that description, no matter how much I would like it to. We've had our fun together and now it's officially on the market at a complete bargain price for any enthusiasts out there who would like to get their hands on a future classic. Goodbye old girl - I'll miss you terribly when you're gone. :(
Aero – not bubbles, it makes me boil!
Last Summer I treated myself to a new Dell laptop (Inspiron 1525). Fully loaded with a 1.66GHz Core 2 Duo and 3GB of RAM - a reasonable beast by any grade. I'm not a gamer so I didn't beef up the graphics but it came with a decent enough setup so I was pretty sure that Eclipse, Word, Excel and my usual apps wouldn't cause too much hassle. Up until about 2 weeks ago the machine was running fine and without any real incident. However, it then started to slow down to no end. Apps took noticeably longer to load (no, not the it's an old PC now mindset problem ;) ) and typing was nearly impossible. [...]
Been a while…
...since I had a good rant about insurance companies. Well, it's a new year and there are two advertisements that are really getting on my nerves at the moment. The first is a radio advert by AXA who claim to be your "local" insurance company. Drop in and get your amazingly cheap policy with no fuss. Well AXA are far from your "local" insurance company so don't let that fool you into supporting your own. In fact unless you live in Dublin or Derry you won't be talking to somebody in the same county as you when you call them. On top of that, the great savings on offer, well I still haven't [...]
Israel – A summary
60 years ago (1948 to be exact) a large body of people of the Jewish faith decided to claim their own patch of land and subsequently invaded the lands of others to enlarge their patch. When others fought back the Israeli's sought the support of another super power (the good old Jew S of A) and set upon a 50 year campaign of killing and land grabbing against those whom they could get away with calling names such as terrorists even if they weren't. Sounds awful familiar to me, didn't something similar happen in the 40's before Israel? Can't quite remember what... Somebody please tell little [...]
Happy New Year All!
A bit late I guess but hopefully you all had a good celebration of the annual cusp that is New Year's. Started the year with a brisk walk/climb through the Comeragh Mountains in Co. Waterford on New Year's Day - start as I aim to finish and all that. :) This year presents many challenges for me. I'm taking a bit of time to myself to concentrate on issues that I have been trying to deal with for a while now and hopefully will come out the other side of the year better for it. One thing that I have been living with for over 4 years now is a crippling fear of flying that has prevented me [...]
