Archive For October, 2002

John Tierney, friend and class …

John Tierney, friend and classmate, died in 1996 in a car accident in Limerick. I debated long and hard with myself all day whether I should post this or not. I searched extensively on various Irish news sites for reports on the crash but to no avail. Their archives just don’t go back that far. [...]

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Brussels to spend €250k on Lin …

Brussels to spend €250k on Linux migration study

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Penalty Points – For the past …

Penalty Points – For the past week a Word document has been winging it’s way around Irish email accounts. I have no idea if it’s legitimate or not but here’s the html equivalent, converted using Open Office and extensively cleaned up by me.

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Heard on IRC today..<lbedfo …

Heard on IRC today.. <lbedford> time to go to ork <– lbedford has quit (ork time) * diamond looks up ork on the map <niall> diamond: ork is the inland part of Cork (not near the C) *groan*

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My 1.2 GHZ PIII Commodore SX-6 …

My 1.2 GHZ PIII Commodore SX-64 – on the day I threw out 2 C64s. *sob* I still have the 1541 drive so I’ll be moving my collection of 300 5 1/4 floppies onto the PC in the next few weeks and there on to several backup CDs.Oh yeah, I remember seeing the SX64 in [...]

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Lots of stuff getting thrown o …

Lots of stuff getting thrown out today. Inluding many of my old C64 things. That’s a huge collection of Zzap64 mags,. CF mags, ACE’s and more games than you can shake a stick at. I’m keeping my c64 floppys though, I want to copy them onto the PC this week. Owen’s getting the C64+1541 and [...]

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St. Finbarre's Cathedral, Co …

St. Finbarre’s Cathedral, Cork, Ireland. Boat People – take on the way to Gugan Barra.

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Latest pic: Boat People …

Latest pic: Boat People

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An Xft Hack – just going to te …

An Xft Hack – just going to test it now, got it from the /. discussion on fonts today.

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*phew* Blogger is back online. …

*phew* Blogger is back online. Here’s the /. discussion.

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