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Browsing Posts published in October, 2004

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Ok, am back for a bit, after a very hectic few days of meetings and seminars and funeral’s etc. Have lots to get done here before heading away for a bit of a break next week, so am working flat out and don’t have time for much else

Ryan Tubridy starts his Tubridy Tonight show tonight, after much anticipation. I can’t wait to see the show, don’t know if I will get to see it tonight as there are plans made, but the recorder will definately be set! RTÉ have finally got together and given the show a site, though it seems to [...]

I miss my uptime! [daragh@moonraker daragh]$ uptime 14:59:27 up 30 min, 4 users, load average: 2.70, 2.74, 1.98

I’m about to put a new HDD into one of my machine’s that been so good to me for well over a year, hate having to say goodbye to this, but, it’s got to be done! [root@moonraker /]# uptime 13:07:02 up 434 days, 22:18, 2 users, load average: 0.02, 0.07, 0.03

There’s a story on ITV-F1 about the fact that vandals have vandalised the grave of Michael and Ralf Schumacher’s mothers grave. Is there no limit to where some people take their fanaticism!

It’s that time of the year again, where the weather has finally started to close in, get autumnal and cold! I love this time of the year, the cold doesn’t bother me at all, and once it’s not windy and wet, I’m happy. However, with frost, and the amount of travel I now do, keeping [...]

Well, after going missing two weeks ago today if my memory serves me correctly, Useless (the cat) has returned. That’s definately the longest holiday he’s gone on, usually, any cat we have around that goes missing that long is dead, given there’s no-one around to feed them really and the relative remotness of the place. [...]

I have just found out that BBC’s Newsnight have an online archive of the video diaries that Salam Pax has been making for them, must give them a watch shortly

There’s an interesting article over on BBC News about Salam Pax – The Baghdad Blogger, with some of the background on him and his blog, as well as his thoughts of the current situation in Iraq and the pending elections. There is also a picture of Salam Pax up there, which is good to see [...]

The FIA have just announced the provisional calendar for next years Formula One World Championships. It looks like I’ll be off to Monaco at the end of May!