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Rowing update
FebruaryDistance: 70.412 km ( Read more... ) -
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You know what I really don't like? I really don't like France 2 showing three quarters of a rugby match, and then passing the coverage over to a channel that I can't get.
I'm listening on internet radio now. -
Idiot bloggers
This article in the Irish Times grabbed my interest.
A website designer found a bug in Ryanair's web site and blogged about it. Ryanair employees left several rude comments on the blog entry, including one fairly threatening one. Ryanair has now officially responded with: "It is Ryanair policy not to waste time and energy corresponding with idiot ( Read more... ) -
The Soup and the Laptop, Part II
I had hoped that by yesterday I would be able to reveal the happy ending to the laptop saga. But it was not to be, and although I am not quite at the ending just yet, it now seems certain what way this will go ( Read more... ) -
Not exactly according to plan
Yesterday I was working from home, all set up on the kitchen table where I could stare out the window at my neighbours going past, where I was close to the kettle, where I could easily make myself some toast to nibble, or something else to eat, as I continued working ( Read more... ) -
Why I Like BNL
We all had our ski masks and sawed off shotguns
But how do you plan for a bank full of nuns
I guess we panicked - we all have taboos
And they were like zebras; they had us confused
We should be in condos with oceanfront views
But instead we're most wanted on the 6 o'clock news
- Bank Job, Barenaked Ladies, from the album Barenaked Ladies Are Me -
Nails
In a perfect world, the shop I saw from the bus today called Imperial Nails should be an ironmonger. This not being a perfect world, it was instead a beauty salon.
Then again, perhaps Imperial Nails are similar to Imperial Stormtroopers, in which case the real puzzle is, which empire is training its nails in Helsinki, of all places? -
Lament of the ex-pat
Personal training is now a luxury in Donegal.
(From an article in the Irish Times about, what else, the recession.)
I have missed a whole part of Irish history, that time during which personal training was not a luxury in Donegal, and I feel robbed. -
On my way
(and over the latest insecurities ( Read more... ) -
Too good for my own good
Being good this week ( Read more... )