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Last year around the exact same time a whole load of seagulls started circling around Youghal. I’ve just taken dozens of photos. It was the 24th of August last year so they are only three days off so maybe there is a pattern?

What on earth were Microsoft thinking? Take the screenshot below. It is from an installation of Windows Server 2008. More specifically it is the window that pops up when you click on the icon that tells you that updates are available. What is wrong with this picture? Well for a start it lists the updates [...]

I got a spam a short while ago that managed to get through my filters. As I was about to delete it I noticed the content. Have a look at the screenshot. The spammers want me to actually manually type their address into my browser and helpfully provide instructions on how to get to their [...]

Anyone reading my other blog will know the problems that I was having with a PC here. The PC in question is an Optiplex GX 620 and at one stage I considered it to be possessed. Now I really think that it is. (Possessed that is.) It was randomly rebooting on me even if it [...]

Just spotted this on breakingnews.ie. Apparently us Irish spend three times more on alcohol than other Europeans. That wouldn’t be because alcohol is about three times more expensive here than in the rest of Europe no?

Just saw this: http://breakingnews.ie/ireland/mhojojqlidsn/ 13 year old arrested joyriding – Nothing too surprising there really. Quite a few 13 year old joyriders about sadly. Wearing a bullet proof vest? – WTF?