I got our first Xmas card today. Its from a Dublin North East TD. The self confessed third socialist in the Dail, himself, Martin Brady sent in the earliest xmas card. Martin is not used to been early, he turned up 10 minutes late on the radio, 10 minutes into a panel debate he was…
Month: November 2006
this day in music
thisdayinmusic.com 2001, former Beatle George Harrison died in Los Angeles of lung cancer aged 58. Tributes to George were made worldwide by The Queen, George Bush, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, George Martin and Oasis guitarist Noel Gallagher. ~ 5 years ago today
the pope, security, loyalty and opuim
Pope Benedict has told Turks that freedom of religion must be granted to all believers in order to secure their loyalty to society. And Turkeys don’t vote for Christmas (not a turkish pun like ‘killing an arab’ by the cure wasn’t a racist song). Has the Pope read Karl Marx? not for some time. What…
beta blogger not better blocker
I moved a less used blog from plain old blogger to beta blogger,. Fine, I’ll check out the functions later, in doing so, the blogger account comes in under the wing of a new or existing google account, I choose existing. then to my surprise i was on some blogger looking blog a few minutes…
tiz the season to win awards
a week last thursday I won the ‘best podcaster’ award in the IIA Netvisionary Awards 2006. Thanks you for your votes in what was a the first year there was a podcast & blog section, I was delighted to win…. but (more about that in my soon to be recorded podcast #19) thanks to the…
You’re A Censor – RTE Late Late disruption
security at the late late show was penetrated when a man got to walk on to the studio floor during live transmission of Fridays chat show and stand face to face with the seated host. Without the safety net of a 10 second delay the live TV audience got to hear the man complain about…
The Two Ronnies
ITV3+1=0 ~ why have a +1 when you can’t show it. 9pm 24/11/2006 so show us something else; or play some music or even my podcast…
polonium-210 fingerprints
CNN reports ~ A former Russian spy who died Thursday in London was poisoned by radiation, Britain’s Health Protection Agency said, and experts are searching for “residual radioactive material” at a number of locations he may have visited. [anti-theft news says] radiation has a fingerprint, experts have found that the most radioactive sea in the…
doopy is dead viva habana
after a short illness the doop server died gracefully [or not so] on monday morning at 09.10am. doopy started out life as a PC and was re-specked to be a web server. It out lived its use by date and to think its twin 60GB hard disks hold as much as an old iPod now.…