Category: Random

  • Beamish Sheets Got Y2Ked

    Shawn Day, of the DHO, showed some inspiring visualisations at last weeks digital humanities  seminar in the Boole Library which he’d done in his work on the brewing industry in Guelph in the nineteenth century. I have made several runs at turning all or parts of  my old MA thesis on the history of Beamish…

  • Fianna Fail to lose Seanad

    Even if they recover enough to be the largest party in the Dail in 2012, and one can never rule that out, Fianna Fail may well have lost control of the Seanad as a result of their local election defeats. 43 of the 66 senators are elected by the outgoing members of the Oireachtas and…

  • Warcraft – Solitaire for the 00s

    Warcraft really is the noughties version of the old windows solitaire game. From about level 15 to level 55, it is boring, timewasting, grinding through levels doing the same old stuff.  I installed  a promising, but flawed, Solitaire on my mobile phones which I now play when I’m bored or to get to sleep at…

  • A cohort is a battalion…

    “That bad, huh?” the brother said when I slapped down Phil Sabin’s Lost Battles on the table in the campus Starbucks as he joined me for coffee yesterday. Actually, it is not bad at all – far from it. It is a good book, the product of many years of careful scholarship, and a useful…

  • Cessna 182 v Bugatti Veryon

    I like ‘Top Gear’, it’s a good laugh, Jeremy Clarkson and Co. are fun, even though I know very little about cars and don’t really care much about cars. I suspect that some of the comments Clarkson and Co make about cars are opinionated BS, but I can never be sure, and I usually don’t…

  • Good Friday at the ‘Dumps’

    Dossed off yesterday and had a very good Friday. Threw the body boards in the car and went to the beach – ‘The Dumps’ at Castlegregory where we spent an hour being tossed by some fun surf. Beautiful sunny day, water at 14 degrees, loads of rolling white water for body boarding. I wear glasses,…

  • Opera Mini

    Playing with Opera Mini

  • PDs plan to give (some) of you back (some) of your money

    I hear on the radio this morning that the PDs claim they are not engaging in auction politics with their 1 for 2 SSIA style pension deal. I wonder how voters will buy this without asking where the extra ‘free’ Euro comes from?

  • They made Boylan say B*%%$*&t!

    I was surprised to hear a clip of Sean Boylan using dressing room language on the radio this morning with respect to issues in the compromise rules series – as one of the longest serving football managers in the GAA, he has a reputation for being one of the nicest and most polite

  • Current Goverment is not the State

    Expelling rogue states from the UN is a bad idea, but it has popped up again today in Nick Cohen’s piece in the Guardian with respect to Sudan.

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