As you may have read British historian David Irving has been sentenced to three years in jail in Austria for denying the holocaust happened. The charges against Irving were based on a speech and interview he gave in Austria in 1989. What happened to the “free speech” the Austrians were croaking about when they re-published [...]
Curling is not a sport, is it? It can’t be. I turned on tv yesterday and curling was on and before I knew it time passed and I was still watching it. It’s only when I looked at the clock I realised I had been watching it for 10 minutes without feeling the need to [...]
Two quick tech stories … Via Slashdot, Michael Thomas, owner of Colossal Storage, says he’s the first person to solve non-contact optical spintronics (huh?) which should ultimately result in the creation of super capacity hard drives of approx. 1.2 petabytes, which is … I dunno … like a brazilian times bigger than anything available now. [...]
I was a bit bored tonight so I decided to use my odd sense of humour to put my own spin on some of today’s headlines. Feel free to skip over this post if you’re on a different wavelength… BBC: Six in court over Scream painting. It’s a truly dodgy painting, and about time people [...]
I wasn’t much of a reader when I was younger, I was either out pucking a sliotar around a field or playing soldiers. The first book I ever bought myself was “Jaws”, I picked up a 2nd hand copy while on holidays in Strandhill many moons ago. It’s an absolute classic story and resulted in [...]
United Irelander tagged me with a MEME “The view of an Irish blogger” this morning. While it looks interesting-ish some of the questions are a little personal so I hope he won’t mind if I give this one a miss. Instead I’ll run with his idea of doing a MEME on MEMEs. The MEME MEME [...]
Paul (NI Magyar) mentioned awhile back that he thought 2005 was a pretty barren year in terms of music quality. I didn’t quite agree at the time but I only realised afterwards that most of the music I listen to I have been listening to for yonks! It’s all old stuff. The most recent album I bought was actually U2′s How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb (2004), an excellent album by the way, by far their best since their last one. For the past few weeks I’ve been listening fairly heavily to System of a Down Toxicity which is from 2001 and Chris Cornell’s Euphoria Morning from 1999. And most of the other songs I listen to are from the last century.
I was delighted to see that Ken Doherty won the Malta Cup last night. It’s been 5 years since he won any ranking tournament, his last victory being the 2001 Thailand Masters. I was watching the game yesterday but had to take a break from the t.v. when Higgins won 6 frames in a row [...]
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Via Ciarán’s very very roundabout route comes this wee site: Unphotographable. There are times when you might be travelling (for example) and see something interesting but not have a camera at hand. So if you can’t capture the moment on film capture it through words. Nice idea.