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The thoughts of Daragh Mc Grath

Browsing Posts published in November, 2003

…just being quiet for once in my life!

This was a bit of fun taken from IRC tonight: pbm> ah, it’s thanksigiving today! pbm> what do they exactly thank for? and who? pron> pbm: their ancestors for getting ‘em out of Europe pron> we should really be the ones celebrating it !!

Ever wonder what song was Number One the day you were born? I’ve always known what was No1 when I was born in the UK – Come on Eileen by Dexys Midnight Runners (choon!), but I never knew Eye of the Tiger by Survivor was the number one in the States at the time. All [...]

Michael Jackson has launched a website, which will be acting as his official communications channel throughout his trial on Child Sex Abuse. Already there’s a very confident statement up there from him refuting the allegations in their entirety.

Good iTunes

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Finally got around to playing with iTunes properly this weekend, and getting all my music library transferred over to the new disk on my laptop, and thus imported into iTunes, and I have to say that so-far I’m mightily impressed. Ok, I know I didn’t have the greatest start with iTunes (it gracefully wiped all [...]

Mickey Mouse is 75 today….happy birthday!

Once again, Mr. O’Leary has done it….he’s stumped all the competition and come up with a brilliant offer! Rather than give away free flights, he’s now paying people to fly with him…I kid you not, here’s the latest press release from the Ryanair website: Ryanair, Europe’s No.1 low fares airline, today (17th Nov. 03) announced [...]

Fortress London

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I spent the weekend in London with Cella…had a great time, walked the legs off ourselves and spent a fortune, but it was all good! We arrived Friday evening, got to the hotel, lovely spot, out at Canary Wharf with a fabalous view overlooking the docklands and the Millennium Dome. As a fascinating aside, I [...]

A severe weather warning has been issued by Met Éireann for this afternoon and tonight. The meteorological service is forecasting stormy conditions across much of the country by this afternoon, extending northwards to remaining areas tonight. Winds of up to 80 miles per hour are predicted in some areas along with heavy rain and coastal [...]

Good Google! :)

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Cool, I’ve just realised that if you google for my name, it comes up with my CV as the first hit, I suppose this is the ideal scenario, and I’m definately well chuffed with it! And in case your wondering why I was googling for myself, it was as a result of reading the “Whats [...]