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I think it was Des O’Malley (founder of the Progressive Democrats) who brought that phrase to my attention many moons ago: “in the national interest”. Many years have passed since then and the bridled chaos, held fast for so many years by nothing more than lies and the singular interests of the civil service, has…
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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…
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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…
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…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…
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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)…
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Yes, the recession busting font is here. A new eco-friendly font that uses 20% less ink when printing documents is now freely available to all. Just what we need in times of recession and also in terms of our environmental conscience. It’s a simple yet brilliant idea. I’ll definitely be using it for future printing…
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Baby Giraffe Originally uploaded by jbwan Just received confirmation that one of my Flickr available photos was included in the recent Schmap guide to Dublin. Sometimes I spend so much time fussing over lighting, exposure, and other things with my SLR that it’s quite humbling and satisfying to have a no-thought shot with my compact…
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Recently upgraded to WordPress 2.7 and I have to say that the developers have done a very nice job on the admin interface. Everything looks really impressive and there are plenty of new features that I’m looking forward to investigating further. Nice work WP folk!
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Join the Facebook group. Despite Ireland being in recession and despite an emergency, early budget to try to deal with the crisis, and despite a projected shortfall in taxes of €7.5 billion the government of Ireland still sees fit to proceed with a €4 billion plan to develop a small metro system in Dublin. This…