Archive For December, 2004

Oooer, that NCT feeling!

I brought my car down to the Blarney NCT center this morning and checked in and joined a lot of other worried looking guys in the waiting room. The tension in the room was palpable as soon as I entered, and when vehicles were driven into the test garage half the room stood up and [...]

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An Apple A Day Keeps The Doctor Away

Not quite, but a fanciful idea. Apples are a good source of vital nourishment, probably worth keeping in mind when we’re stuffing our faces with chocolate and being generally glutonous!

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Spam Spam Spam, Come on up and get your spam!

Here’s an updated list of recent spam to this list. It’s updated every few minutes so you can see a snippet of the spam that’s being deleted automatically here by Kitten’s Spaminator and diligent updating of keywords. Go wild! I need to think about this a bit more. WPMU supports multiple blogs, run by multiple [...]

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Flying Home for Christmas?

The world’s airports are going to be thronged over the next few days with people returning to their families and homes for the Christmas holidays. Here’s a sight that lots of Cork people will be familiar with!

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First we had the USB Mince Pie, now the guys in Taiwan have come up with a gingerbread motherboard. Looks good enough to eat! Yummy! (Thanks Padraig for the link!)

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Santa's Flying In!

Only a few more days left and Santa will be flying around the world. Here he is landing at Cork Airport for a quick look around!

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Can I Speak With The Eircom Account Holder?

Just got a phone call… Me: Hello! Caller: Hello, can I speak to the Eircom account holder? Me: Err, speaking. Caller: Hi, my name is Laura and I’m ringing from Tele2 in Donegal and I want to tell you about our .. Me: Haha, don’t bother, I’m not even with Eircom any more! Caller: Oh! [...]

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Delicious Photography Links

Via Thunderbird’s RSS reader… Unphotographable: an account of pictures missed Couloir.org: Resizing, Fading Slideshow Demo Unrelated News AutoStitch :: a new dimension in automatic image stitching Chicago Photobloggers Fair use of photos on blogs… the photographers speak out. Infrared Photography With a Digital Camera Near Infrared Digital Photography: A Tutorial Make your own recursive picture [...]

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Too much of a good thing?

Too much of a good thing? Back in the day, I’d get a CD and I’d listen to it. A lot. A CD was a considered purchase – if I was going to make the effort to go to the store and spend my hard earned money on it, it was going to be worth [...]

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Get Langer into the Collins Dictionary!

Ray D’Arcy and co of TodayFM fame held a poll today to decide what word we, the listening public, would like to see in the next edition of the Collins Dictionary. The clear winner of the poll was the word langer! According to the Cork Slang Dictionary, Langer is defined as “A disagreeable person.” but [...]

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