Life in General

Well back to the grindstone after a fantastic two weeks of travelling around South-Eastern Europe. Saw some fantastic places and sights and I can only hope now that the film footage comes out well and reflects the memories of the various attractions. It was tough going being on our feet the whole time but there’s also a great amount of satisfaction derived from getting around these places on our own; mostly down to the effort and time put in by Siân in organising the route and schedule.

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Well we managed to make it to Vienna and currently I am hooked up via my pda to a WiFi hotspot I found for free in Brauer Strasse 🙂 Siân and I had a great time in Budapest and would definitely recommend the place for a visit. So far the trip has been great with… Read More »Blogging Vienna

Holiday update!! Well I’m in Budapest at the moment with Siân (http://www.jbwan.com/bio.htm) So far we’ve been through Venice, Lake Bled (Slovenia) and Zagreb in Croatia. Can’t really say much about Zagreb as it wasn’t the best experience but the rest of the places are somewhat enjoyable. Looking forward now to enjoying a thermal bath somewhere… Read More »Hoildays

Well it’s June 6th and my weblog has received so few entries in the last month that it must have all but disappeared from the indexing webs of various engines. Problem is that I have been too occupied with other things and have not had a chance to continue my daily reading. Further more I… Read More »Rant!!!

At long last after many moons of navigating the universe NASA decided it would be a good idea to take a picture of Earth from the proximity of another planet. So if any of you were wondering why we are continually invaded by Martian spaceships then it’s probably just because we look like a good… Read More »Seeing it from the Martian’s point of view

Well it must be the season for it, I’m just about to move house and we’ve just moved server for our web host. The change gave me the opportunity to install the latest MovableType package the way I wanted it done and also to experiment with the superb export and import functionality of the system.… Read More »Moving

All those who are dedicated followers of politics on RTE or who are regular readers of the Irish Times will be familiar with the name of Kevin Myers. A rather enthusiastic journalist with often strongly opinionated views and humorous angles, is sometimes a breath of fresh air in an otherwise musty cupboard of current affairs.… Read More »Kevin Myers’ View

Just when you thought that things couldn’t get any worse. The Register posted this today about not only a regime change in Iraq but also a mobile network change. “CDMA cell phones include an integrated global positioning system (GPS) feature that allows the precision location of callers in times of emergency.” but the reasoning is… Read More »Rebuilding Iraq

Just picked this up from Rob’s Rants. It’s an article by a great journalist, Robert Fisk, who is always at the forefront of conflicts. The article although brief is very lucid and the imagery so realistic that even though no fighting is ever mentioned, the inevitability and build up is all too conclusive as to… Read More »Iraq – an inside view

I don’t know; I was going to post this under humour instead of general, I was really torn for a moment there. Anyway this report is about a Microsoft ad in South Africa being banned by the advertising authority for falsely claiming that hackers would soon be extinct due to Microsoft software security, etc. Laughable… Read More »Ha!