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The thoughts of Daragh Mc Grath

Browsing Posts published in March, 2007

My brother Barry caught this excellent shot last night of a plane passing in front of the moon. I suggest you take a wander over and check it out for yourself, it’s a good one! Well done Barry!

OMG…I’ve just spent a ball busting few hours grappling with SMTP AUTH using SASL on my mail server. I’m running postfix on Ubuntu Edgy, and it’s been doing silly things with chrooting postfix. I’ve read so many articles and how-to’s on what should be a relatively trivial task, and, it turns out I was being [...]

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There was a bit of downtime for some people to this here blog over the past 24 hours or so, bit of a ooppss on my behalf, apologies for that!

How the hell did I miss this up to now?! I know I haven’t been exactly heavily involved in the blogosphere over the past few months, but, I at least thought that I would have heard about headphoneland given that the only blogs that I do really keep a keen eye on are photoblogs. headphoneland [...]

There is a total lunar eclipse visible from pretty much everywhere in the world tonight. In Ireland, the moon first enters the Earth’s shadow at 9:30pm and will be Totally Eclipsed from 10:44pm to 11:58pm. It then leaves the Earth’s shadow fully at 1:12am. I suggest you get yourself out to a nice dark location, [...]

If, like me, you’re a massive Damien Rice fan, you may be interested in checking out this site which contains four exclusive acoustic video performances of Damine doing ’9 Crimes’ ‘The Animals Were Gone’ ‘Coconut Skins’ and ‘The Blowers Daughter’, which, as well as having him playing the songs, includes a nice little intro about [...]

It’s good to see The Irish Blog Awards are picking up some good PR again, Dave Fanning had a piece on DriveTime earlier, Six One News have an article tomorrow and the various newspapers have been covering things pretty well over the past few days too. I’m honoured that The Dublin Community Blog has been [...]

So, has anyone in Ireland bought anything from TechnikDirekt recently? I used them last year and it took about three weeks for my parcel to arrive from the shipping date, just wondering if this has improved at all, I’m awaiting delivery on a parcel for over a week already and starting to get impatient!!