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Monthly Archives: June 2006

The Offaly Haircut Row

Thursday, June 8, 2006

Thats what they’re calling it on RTE. I call it an absolute disgrace – the “Principal Should be Sacked Incident”. I noticed it on Michele Neylon’s newly revamped site earlier, so I watched out for it on the news. Donal also gives his views on how ridiculous this haircut rule is even during school year. [...]

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Bank Holiday Traffic

Wednesday, June 7, 2006

I was not lucky with traffic this weekend at all. On Sunday, as I dropped my sister into Cork for the 5.30 train, the city was deathly quiet. I should have known that I was dancing in the eye of a hurricane. Gardai were randomly perched like magpies in Blackpool, and on MacCurtain St., and [...]

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The Proposition

Tuesday, June 6, 2006

What is an Irishman but a nigger turned inside out? I have been looking forward to this one ever since it got the Sigla thumbs up, it was well worth the wait. I love all of these Australian movies, Mr. Reliable, The Castle, Rabbit Proof Fence… even Wolf Creek although it scared the bejesus out [...]

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GameCon 9 – kRoNic Gets Shafted by the Admins

Sunday, June 4, 2006

I was at GameCon 9 in Dublin this weekend. Held in The Spa hotel in Lucan, a good venue, and a nice LAN. I was there for the Unreal Tournament 2004 – I don’t get that much time to play it online, and when I do, the ISDN is too much of a disadvantage. My [...]

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ISPDC '06 in Romania

Friday, June 2, 2006

I had been planning on touring Eastern Europe earlier in the year – had it all mapped out, from Croatia to Estonia, but was forced to come to terms with the fact that I just couldn’t afford it. So I’m pleased to get the chance to attend the the 5th International Symposium on Parallel and [...]

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Dapper Drake Released

Thursday, June 1, 2006

Ubuntu has launched version 6.06 today. Evaluating the test releases was not really an option for me, since it takes about three weeks for me to download an ISO, so I am looking forward to getting Dapper this weekend. I haven’t been so excited about an OS since I got Windows 95 for my 486. [...]

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