Year: 2007


  • Colin McRae RIP

    Scarcely can I believe reading the headlines today that Scottish rally legend Colin McRae was tragically killed in a helicopter accident yesterday, along with his young son and two family […]

  • Bertie, Docked

    Yesterday, in the most anticipated docking since the astronauts joined the International Space Station, our beloved Taoiseach finally stepped up at the Mahon Tribunal to answer some questions relating to […]

  • Bet you it’s not this big. A spider web discovered in Texas, USA is suspected to be a collaborative effort of thousands of spiders and stretches over 200 yards. This […]

  • A couple of days ago I got around to setting up MovableType 4 on my blog server. All went well for the upgrade as usual and I was very happy […]

  • Red Admiral

    Red Admiral Originally uploaded by jbwan. Sitting down eating dinner in the garden last Saturday, this guy came fluttering by through my shrubs. Hadn’t seen one in a long time […]

  • Via Damien Mulley, an inspired piece of animation from Ignacio Ferraras, humourously dealing with the fight against death. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x00q6UBTP2E]

  • Now anybody who knows me, knows that I not so much love as I highly enjoy and am amused by statistics and the frequent ill-application of such. Today I read […]

  • MovableType 4

    I’ve been waiting to get around to this for a while and finally took the plunge. MovableType 4, my blogging software’s latest update, is here and it’s very different to […]

  • In the early hours of this morning, opera legend Luciano Pavarotti lost his battle with cancer and passed away. Pavarotti, who landed in most people’s homes for the first time […]

  • The Vee

    The Vee Originally uploaded by jbwan. I like The Vee, the distinctive meeting place of two hills in West Waterford (well technically it’s in Co. Tipperary but what’s 100m between […]