Curling is not a sport, is it? It can’t be. I turned on tv yesterday and curling was on and before I knew it time passed and I was still watching it. It’s only when I looked at the clock I realised I had been watching it for 10 minutes without feeling the need to [...]
Two quick tech stories … Via Slashdot, Michael Thomas, owner of Colossal Storage, says he’s the first person to solve non-contact optical spintronics (huh?) which should ultimately result in the creation of super capacity hard drives of approx. 1.2 petabytes, which is … I dunno … like a brazilian times bigger than anything available now. [...]
A message for Rory Morrish who represented Ireland today in the Men’s 15 km Classical Cross Country Skiing… • The best skiers start last … so when you start among the first of 100 skiers take it as a bad sign. • When almost every Tom, Dick and Henrik from Argentina to Ethiopia (Ethiopia for [...]
As reported yesterday, four players from Tyrone and five from Dublin have been charged by the GAA’s Central Disciplinary Committee over the brawls at the two sides’ league game in Omagh almost 2 weeks ago. The players could face lengthy bans for their actions and I hope they do. I hope examples are made of [...]
I was a bit bored tonight so I decided to use my odd sense of humour to put my own spin on some of today’s headlines. Feel free to skip over this post if you’re on a different wavelength… BBC: Six in court over Scream painting. It’s a truly dodgy painting, and about time people [...]
I wasn’t much of a reader when I was younger, I was either out pucking a sliotar around a field or playing soldiers. The first book I ever bought myself was “Jaws”, I picked up a 2nd hand copy while on holidays in Strandhill many moons ago. It’s an absolute classic story and resulted in [...]
A little bored this evening so I took a trip around the blogosphere to see what’s happening and came across a few blogs worth bookmarking… The first is Manuel Stimulation, a blog from a Spanish dude living in Ireland. Hilarious blog, I’ll be dropping by there often. The next I found was it’s all fun [...]
United Irelander tagged me with a MEME “The view of an Irish blogger” this morning. While it looks interesting-ish some of the questions are a little personal so I hope he won’t mind if I give this one a miss. Instead I’ll run with his idea of doing a MEME on MEMEs. The MEME MEME [...]
A total of six people, including a two-year old boy in Swords, have been killed on our roads in the past 24 hours. That brings the total so far for 2006 to 50! It looks like we’re set for another 400+ year! It’s absolute madness. So many lives destroyed for no reason. When will the [...]
Paul (NI Magyar) mentioned awhile back that he thought 2005 was a pretty barren year in terms of music quality. I didn’t quite agree at the time but I only realised afterwards that most of the music I listen to I have been listening to for yonks! It’s all old stuff. The most recent album I bought was actually U2′s How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb (2004), an excellent album by the way, by far their best since their last one. For the past few weeks I’ve been listening fairly heavily to System of a Down Toxicity which is from 2001 and Chris Cornell’s Euphoria Morning from 1999. And most of the other songs I listen to are from the last century.