NYC Irish Famine Memorial
A very unique design. It’s supposed to be a ruined house on a hill in Ireland. You walk around the base of the memorial, towards the water. Go through a short tunnel, which has speakers playing the...
View ArticleFriends on Last.fm
Some friends from my home town in Ireland are in bands! So I’ve 2 Last.fm pages to refer to you. First Pavesi: http://www.last.fm/music/Pavesi And Serial Twin: http://www.last.fm/music/Serial+Twin If...
View ArticleDigging a hole
Sandy digging a hole at the lake: Sorry if the music sounds a little wonky. Music extract is probably copywritted by the Estate of Jimi Hendrix.
View ArticlePresentations and Time
This is a common mistake that people do when given presentations, they run out of time. This appears to mainly be because they’ve written their persentation (usually on PowerPoint) and haven’t done a...
View ArticleOld Donegal Town
A while back I scanned some old postcards of Donegal Town that I borrowed from my Aunty Isabel. They’ve been pretty popular on flickr.com, with this one getting over 900 views: And this one getting...
View ArticleAt the Backstrands
On Sunday Jeannie, me sister, and I went to Murvagh beach on a lovely sunny afternoon (or the Backstrands as me Dad used to call it). We spend about 2 hours paddling in the water and walking along the...
View ArticleLenovo Laptop?
I’m thinking of getting a new laptop either the Lenova ThinkPad T400 (which is a replacement for the T61), or the IdeaPad U330 to replace my aging Dell 700m The big thing for me is do they work with...
View ArticleBut I don’t want a PDF?
WTF is Citibank thinking with their web interface: When I’m looking at my old statements I don’t want to have to wait for a PDF to download, then for Adobe Acrobat to open just so I can briefly look at...
View ArticleDebian’s e17 Packages
I thought I’d start looking at using Debian’s experimental E17 packages. I commented out all other E17 repo’s from my source.list and installed the debian e17 package. It installs a minimal amount of...
View ArticleKDE4 and Debian
I figured it’s time for me to try and install kde4 again! Previously I had to remove KDE4 due to package conflicts. There are installation instructions at:...
View ArticleSupport Pine Street Inn
Support Boston’s Pine Street Inn this year and buy holidays cards based on a photograph I took: http://www.pinestreetinn.org/news.php?id=343 The photograph also came 24th in the Boston Globe’s 2008...
View ArticleDell Laptops & Ubuntu
I’d heard that Dell were offering Ubuntu Linux on some of their laptops and I hadn’t really looked into it. But I came across this page the other day and it’s pretty neat to get Ubuntu (or any Linux)...
View ArticleNetbeans 6.5 on Debian
Doesn’t perform badly, I’ve been using it recently with Ruby code, and I like how it colourises the code to make editing code easier, and performs it auto-completion and method lookup (basically all...
View ArticleHow to get from one terminal to another at Boston’s Logan Airport
I wrote this up for a friend who is arriving at Boston’s Logan Airport and whom has never been to Boston before. She has to get from Terminal E (Aer Lingus) to Terminal B (US Airways). It’s pretty...
View ArticleAdobe Flash Sound not working with Iceweasel on Debian?
After upgrading to Flash 10 sound stopped working. Installing the flashplugin-nonfree-extrasound package solved that problem for me: aptitude install flashplugin-nonfree-extrasound If your using pulse...
View ArticleGot a T400
I recently got an Lenovo T400 and this thing works great with the latest version of Ubuntu (Intrepid). To install Ubuntu, you have to make sure you edit the BIOS settings and change the graphics to use...
View ArticleFirst Baptist Church of Boston
I was looking through my Flickr photostream and realised that I’ve taken a fair number of pics of the tower at Boston’s First Baptist Church. It really is a splendid old building: The doorway: From...
View ArticleSnow!
Got a tonne of snow about a week ago: It’s still been lying around and slowly thawing and refreezing, and being ground down. Today it snow about 5 inches, and now it’s turned to rain/sleet and it’s a...
View ArticleEnable mod_perl on Debian, Ubuntu, & Other Linuxes.
To enable mod_perl with Apache2 on Debian & Ubuntu for all directories served up by Apache2, including user directories such as ~/public_html, add the following lines to...
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