Tag: Random
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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…
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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…
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Opera Mini
Playing with Opera Mini
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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?
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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
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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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Boots and bodybags
Yesterday’s fighting in Bint Jbeil has brought home a harsh truth about boots on the ground in war – they come with a quota of bodybags attached.
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Porterhouse and Fusty Ferret
Two days in Dublin with no kids and, more importantly, no need to drive meant time for bookshops and nice beer.
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I’m meltiiinnnngg…….
It’s the second day of 30 degree C heat here, with rock bottom humidity. I can’t live in this weather.
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Splits and failures in Darfur
The Sudanese Civil war drags on, and not surprisingly, the Khartoum government isn’t doing much to help end it.
