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Photo of Lucas in the garden yesterday. I asked him to smile but I think he overdid it a bit!

Edit – I’ve made a complete and utter balls up of this post. Lucas is on the bottom left of the photo. And the ship is the MS Julia not M.V. Was up in the city today. While herself was off shopping, myself and Lucas were left to our own devices to wander about the [...]

I’ve been meaning to take a photo of this boat that is tied up at Harvey’s Dock here in Youghal. Anyone notice anything odd? Click for bigger.

I’ve been obsessively poring over my log files again. I always find it interesting to see what combinations of operating systems and web browsers visitors to my sites are using. I’ve recently resurrected Sawmill to analyse reports from my reverse proxy which gives me a nice overview of all visitors to all my hosted sites. [...]

By now we all know the gritty details of how much NAMA is going to pay out for these so called ‘toxic’ debts. €54bn is an awful lot of money isn’t it? Yet we are told that it is essential for the survival of our economy. No doubt you have perhaps read much about it [...]

Time flies when you are having fun or not as the case may be. In my mind all I can think about is ten years ago when my father died suddenly. Has it really been that long? So much has changed in those ten years. My father would be a grandfather now. Each time I [...]

I feel so ashamed. I’ve just been extremely bad. Someone in Brazil changed their theme on blogspot and very nice it is too I have to say. His design is excellent but for one thing. He is hotlinking to an image on my server. I’m getting hundred of hits for it so I figured I [...]

Congratulations to Tony and Saori on their recent wedding in Japan. And thanks for bringing me back some sake. Normally this stuff comes in bottles so I was quite curious when I got these: I’m half way through the one with the pink flowers and it’s bloody lovely. I’m going to save the other two [...]