tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18247957888489896062012-01-25T19:42:18.740ZHero of Neptune - Mightiest of Men - Master of the Ellipsis...Captain Incrediblehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00323291069792029946noreply@blogger.comBlogger1901100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1824795788848989606.post-49131118817410352502012-01-25T19:42:00.000Z2012-01-25T19:42:18.744Z

I'm a big fan of Mel Brooks. As in-flight entertainment goes, his movies are among the best in terms  of passing the time between here and Neptune. One of my favourites is Blazing Saddles,one of themost quotable movies in cinema history, with (almost) every scene worth the price of admission. My favourite scene in the movie is where the townsfolk meet in the church to discuss the state of

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Over a 10-day period, I have had no less than three (3!) doorstep visits from salespeople representing Airtricity, a power generation and supply company, trying to sign me up to a contract with them, something I resolutely refuse to do. Notwithstanding the fact tht the IncrediCave uses a combination of geothermal energy and cold fusion as a power source, I could not be less inclined to sign with

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Happy Birthday also to boxing legend, three-time World Heavyweight Champion (back when it meant something), the immortal Muhammad Ali. I remember staying up late with my Dad and my brother whenever he had a title bout; invariably, they took place in exotic locations like Manila or Las Vegas, so when they were shown live in Ireland it was usually three in the morning. For me, boxing died as a

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Or indeed, Happy Birthday to the voice of the Sith Lord, Mr. James Earl Jones. I first came across him as Thulsa Doom in Conan The Barbarian, before I ever knew about his role in Star Wars. A subsequent role as the reclusive author Terence Mann, opposite Kevin Costner in Field of Dreams, is a personal favourite. His is a voice which, like those of  Morgan Freeman and Walter Cronkite,

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This weekend, I went to see The Artist, a silent movie in black & white directed by Michel Hazanavicius and starring Jean DuJardin and Bérénice Bejo. DuJardin, a French actor known for his comic roles in the OSS:117 spy spoofs (also directed by Hazanavicius) plays George Valentin, star of the silent screen, known to 1927 audiences for his daredevil adventures and canine companion, Uggie.

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A friend of mine told me today that she had visited the local branch of Marks & Spencer here in Dublin on - wait for it - December 30th. Where she saw this: April's almost more than three months away, and those eggs will have hatched by then! Recession or not, it's a cynical ploy on behalf of the store to lure sales shoppers into impulse buying. I'm very disappointed...

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And here we are once again at the beginning of a New Year, with seemingly-endless days stretching before us and the promise of spring and, hopefully, summer to come before the neutrinos inevitably mutate and John Cusack gets chased by lava (Dara O'Briain has the inside track on this - trust me). And it's been a stressful year, both in and out of work, as may be reflected by my somewhat sporadic

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Today I spent a frustrating 45 minutes (the reason's not important) trying to recall the name of this man: I could tell you anything else about him - that he spent 27 years in prison as a political prisoner; became South Africa's first black President, was played, in the film Invictus, by Morgan Freeman, and many other things. But the name 'Nelson Mandela' simply would not come to my mind.

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One of the best songs ever...

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I've been going through some draft posts, and it seems I failed to complete a meme about a movie for every year of my life thus far. If only because I hate leaving things unfinished, here's the next part - gods alone know when I'll submit the '80s list (although it may be short)... Note: I know it was supposed to be only one for each year, but I love movies and couldn't choose, so here are some

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Yesterday, I played my first serious round of golf. Nothing much to be blogging about, one might think, until one takes into account that it was I who was playing. My dad, who enjoys his golf and is a member at a course in Co. Kildare, has been encouraging me to go with him for a round for some time, but until now I've been reluctant to accept knowing my lack of coordination would be an

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As DC Comics embarks upon their great adventure, my local comics store provided me with this handy list of the 52 new titles and invited me to reserve some. Having read the free preview book that came with it, and Lee's thoughts on the subject, I've decided to start with these and see how they go: Three months, perhaps, and changes may be made. Things I'm looking forward to are the return

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Today is Neptunian New Year, as calculated by being about 164.8 Earth years since it was discovered jointly by Verrier and Adams in 1846 as it passed the Sun. My contract as Hero of Neptune runs for 3 years (but I didn't read the small print), so only have another 2 Neptunian (or about 329.6 Earth) years to go to retirement and the inevitable book and media tours. For those of you who may never

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Today, my nephew took me (!) to see THOR. We've been going to movies - especially superhero movies - since he was about 8 years old, and we always have a great time, and this year promises to be just as good, with (besides Thor) X-Men, Captain America and Green Lantern to look forward to, as well as Harry Potter. Anyhow, Thor was a hero I never expected to see on the big screen, so I was

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Somewhat late, but I felt I couldn't allow the passing of Elisabeth Sladen to go without comment of my own. As a ten-year-old, Sarah Jane Smith was the first of The Doctor's companions that I can really recall, travelling first with Jon Pertwee and then Tom Baker in that amazing blue box. At teatime every Saturday we'd watch as their adventures unfolded, the cliffhanger invariably involving

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In a bizarre turn of events, the website Blastr.com, part of the Syfy group, owned by NBC Universal, has posted a spoiler for the post-credits "Easter Egg" to be found following the forthcoming 'Thor' movie. (I'd post the link here, but it shares the whole thing - go to www.blastr.com and search for Thor...) Does anyone but me find it odd (and not a little hypocritical) that a studio should be

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It's about time Hal got his own movie, and on June 17th, he will. The good people at Film School Rejects released the following WonderCon footage, which I felt ought to be propagated a bit: Beware his power...

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So there I was, Stumbling through the great Web of a Sunday morning, when I came upon one of those sites with lists of "Things You Shouldn't Do Because They Annoy Me". You know the type - people decide what they don't like about a subject or activity and post it in the form of a '50 things' list. In this particular one, from the website "Three Guys One Book", four guys present a list of 40

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...and, proving that the networks at least are doomed not to learn from their mistakes, it's happening again. I returned recently from a vacation to New York, to read from the ether that popular science fiction drama Caprica, a show I enjoyed, has been axed by Syfy due to poor ratings performance. A number of factors, it would seem, contributed to this: Syfy's decision to split the show's first

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I was saddened by news of the passing of Tony Curtis, screen legend of my youth. Born Bernard Schwartz and raised in the Bronx, New York, Curtis began his acting career after leaving the US Navy after World War II, starring in minor roles until breaking into the mainstream with a part in Winchester '73, headlined by James Stewart. Other roles followed, in pictures such as The Black Shield of

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This is the flag of my country: It's a flag of which I'm very proud, and I get to see it flying over my workplace seven days a week. What you may not be aware of is the fact that here I'm displaying it upside-down, in the manner indicating distress. A clever design on the part of our Founding Fathers then, ensuring that we keep our nation's problems to ourselves and say nothing, lest the

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Let's take a minute to enjoy this without further comment from me...

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I know, it's been a couple of months for you, but it's only been about two or three days for me. I had to do something with the timestream, but everything's fine now, as can be shown from the fact that we once more have French Fries, a 26-letter alphabet and, unfortunately, taxes (you'll thank me later). Oh, and the Pope was supposed to be a respected member of an obscure Australian Trappist

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Adapted from the graphic novel of the same name written by Warren Ellis and illustrated by Cully Hamner (which I must make a point of reading), I knew nothing of either work  until this very morning. In addition to those appearing in the trailer, the movie also apparently features Richard Dreyfuss and the evidently-still-alive Ernest Borgnine. A not-so-Over-the-Hill Gang movie, coming soon to

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Damn...

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I had a phone call this afternoon, from a young lady who said she was calling on behalf of somebody called Online PC Care about the problems I was having with my PC. I enquired as to the nature of her call and asked how she obtained my phone number, at which point she hung up. Curiously, a colleague of mine reported last week that he had had a similar call, only the individual had suggested

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I blame Facebook. 170 different privacy settings - W, as they say, TF is up with that??? I opened an account last month, having finally succumbed to peer pressure, and have spent the intervening time tweaking settings so that I don't accidentally leave any personal information in the hands of potential enemies. And then there's the games - I've been playing Mahjongg and that Scrabble

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*May one do that? I mean, add an ellipsis after a question mark? Answers on a postcard or comment to the usual address...

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For any of you who may be unaware, there's a show on Disney called Phineas & Ferb, regarding the adventures of two (step)brothers who use their imaginations to fill in the long days of summer vacation, to the annoyance of their sister Candace and the occasional frustration of Perry, their pet platypus. It starts like this: and is well worth a look...

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Anybody who has seen John Cusack in Grosse Pointe Blank will understand how I felt about the prospect of attending my 30-year high school reunion last week. To wit: "I just honestly don't know what I have in common with those people anymore... or with anyone, really. I mean, they'll all have husbands and wives and children and houses and dogs, and, you know, they'll have made themselves a

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Really. It is...

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...would be a large pile of books, some read, some in progress, some waiting. Since, however, I don't have such an item of furniture, books tend to get piled (well, neatly stacked) on shelves or the floor until I can get to them. Recent additions to the library include The One From The Other, a novel of post-war German private eye Bernie Gunther, in which Philip Kerr's eponymous hero finds

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If you, like me, are one of those people who aren't quite in tune with what's musically popular (job pressures, you understand), you'll understand the feeling that comes with realising what all the young people were so enthused about a couple of years ago. Portishead is one of those examples of how I knew the music but not the band, and it was only out of a search for a track from the movie

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We all remember the story of King Midas, how everything he touched turned to gold, and how, in popular parlance, 'The Midas Touch' is used to refer to the ability of a gifted individual to bring success to any venture to which he or she turns their hand. This week has felt like I have the Anti-Midas Touch, where everything I put my hand to either broke down, malfunctioned, fell over or otherwise

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The weather's growing milder, the days are growing longer; we're getting back to the time of year I like best. Yet the temperature remains low, which, in the building where I work, means we need the heat to stay on all day, which it doesn't (The building is a listed historical monument, so there are regulations limiting how it may be maintained structurally; hence, double-glazing is not an

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This is Tina Guo, cellist: And so is this: I think that's reasonably comprehensive, don't you?

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Well, not exactly... I did, however, attend a performance in the RTE Concert Orchestra's Signature season of 2010 on Sunday night last. The performance took place in the National Concert Hall, Dublin, and was given in front of a full house by special guest conductor Lalo Schifrin, who has been one of my favourite film score composers for as long as I can remember. The composer of over 75 movie

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First off, my apologies for the lack of service. I've been attempting to use a new template for the blog with, it must be said, only marginal success, so I've reverted to a more familiar appearance until I get it sorted. Using a third-party template requires a little editing, however, as an IT professional, I naturally have little expertise with HTML, XML or PHP, which means research and a lot

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But I remain undaunted. For now...

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...which, in my case, can mean 'Destroy It Yourself'... But please bear with me while I attempt to redecorate.

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...when I came across this little gem: It's really quite breathtaking - I hope you'll enjoy it as much as I did... An original work by melodysheep

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The end of another year, that is; and as we stagger drunkenly towards the precipice of 2010, it's time to reflect on the year that has been 2009. The apex of the year was, indubitably, the Irish Six Nations Rugby Grand Slam, our first in over sixty years, and only our second ever. My money is on a repeat performance in 2010. By contrast, the nadir will have been Ireland's failure to qualify for

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...I'd like to wish everyone out there the compliments of the season, and hope that you'll extend and enjoy the traditional goodwill that is supposed to encircle this tiny world of ours at this point in its march around our star. Be excellent to each other, and incredible to yourselves...

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It is our custom, in the company where I work in my secret identity, for us to serve a festive Irish Coffee and perhaps a mince pie to our colleagues in the IT Dept and certain selected guests from outside IT. The event began as a small, in-the-room thing before we broke up for Christmas, but word got out and before long it was department-wide, to the extent that it's now part of the

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I haven't done a meme (memed? been memetic?) in a while, but today I came upon this one. I wonder what my viewing choices say about me? Taken from The Urban Recluse, who got it from SamuraiFrog Rules: - Bold all of the following TV shows which you’ve ever seen 3 or more episodes of in your lifetime. - Italicize a show if you’re positive you’ve seen every episode of it. 24  7th Heaven -

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A favourite song of mine, one to which I always enjoy listening, is "Rainbow Connection" by Kermit the Frog. Thanks to the magic of YouTube, so can you: However, I have observed, in my travels, that it has been performed by other artists: Ethereally by the beautiful Sarah McLachlan - Soulfully by the Bublé-like Jason Mraz, in a duet with composer Paul Williams -  And soul-touchingly

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I was looking at the Film News section of the Entertainment page on RTE's website. Of fifteen articles, eight appeared to be related to the activities or otherwise of the cast of the movie "Twilight". None of whom I've ever heard... Are people really that interested?

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I'd just like to begin by saying: MUUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!!!! And now to explain why: At the suggestion of Lee over at QYDJ and by the benificence (did I spell that correctly?) of Matt at Culture Kills... a recent post of mine has been nominated and accepted for a Transmundane Award! This one: I shall display it proudly...

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As we speak, however figuratively, I'm watching Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood in concert. In Madison Square Garden, 2008. It does not, metaphorically speaking, get better than this... Picture by Debra L Rothenberg.

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So I bought myself a Creative X-Fi2 today and, flushed with the inevitable sense of self-congratulation that comes from a successful and confident web purchase, clicked the Stumble button on my browser's toolbar to see what surprises the Great Web could deliver. This was the first thing I found - I thought it only fitting to share: Music and video by Ricardo Autobahn. Curiously, the website

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I had a comment to my last post from a guy named Josh who, it turns out, has a band that goes by the name of, er, Captain Incredible. A heavy rock group based in Dallas, pics and video can be found on their Myspace page. I checked out the flyer Josh pointed me at: and where you can find more of the same. They've even got an Incredobile - check it out...

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...in a remake of the 1985 BBC classic thriller, "Edge of Darkness". The original, directed by Martin Campbell, starred Bob Peck, Joe Don Baker and Joanne Whalley, had a haunting soundtrack by Michael Kamen and Eric Clapton, and was so popular that BBC repeated it twice in the same year, something unheard of in those days. The remake, also directed by Martin Campbell, stars Gibson, Ray

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I've recently finished a book entitled"The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher" by Kate Summerscale,the account of an actual murder that took place in rural England in the 1860s, and the Scotland Yard detective whose task it was to investigate the case and unmask the killer.It's a sad, yet fascinating story, not least because it actually took place, but also because the case is widely accepted as being the

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After the Aquaman video, I found this one featuring The Flash -"The Ballad of Barry Allen":Excellent stuff...Music by Jim's Big Ego; video by tehbasil

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Some time ago, Lee posted a story which suggested that Aquaman might not be held in perhaps the highest esteem by his peers in the Justice League.While visiting YouTube, I came upon this piece which suggests he might be on the needy side as well:Judge for yourself...Music and video by Mark Aaron James - I will be listening to more of his work...

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At this moment, count centres all over this fair country are busy sorting ballot papers into three piles - Yes, No and Spoiled (for those who spell 'X' with a Y), to determine the result of Ireland's latest Constitutional Referendum, whether to approve the proposed 28th Amendment and allow ratification of the Lisbon Treaty.It is a feature of our society that any potential change to our

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I went to my first management company AGM in four years last week.Not that it's been that long since I bothered, but because the incumbent directors finally stepped down and allowed us to convene one.We have been hounding them for years to call an AGM to discuss the building and its condition, but they have refused, something for which I believe they could be brought to task on under company law.

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I went to a party the other night, in a pub called 'Messrs. Maguire' on Burgh Quay in central Dublin.Organised out of work, and starting with lunch, it was a farewell bash for Rebecca, the second of our two IT Graduates to leave us in the last two months, and we had a blast.I got home at three a.m., something I haven't done in a long, long time, and slept until ten, something I do whenever

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...but perhaps much later to a cinema near me, is Whiteout, starring Kate Beckinsale, Gabriel Macht and Tom Skerritt and based on the graphic novel of the same name by Greg Rucka and Steve Lieber.Here's a trailer:A tale of murder, mystery and suspense in the frozen Antarctic wastes, if it's anything like the printed work it'll be a cracking movie.One to which I've been looking forward for some

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I had something of a school reunion today.Primary school, that is...We had an engineer in today from one of our service providers to fit a new control panel. He paused for a moment when I introduced myself."Your face is familiar," he said, the way you do when you're trying to place someone but can't quite."I get that from time to time," I joked."You went to St Benedict's* National School, didn't

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Back to work today after a week's leave. Didn't go anywhere; I'm trying to get my apartment in some sort of shape to be worth putting on the market.Not that there's much wrong with it - but informed sources tell me that the "spartan" look gives the impression of greater space - and no, that doesn't mean Gerard Butler greeting potential buyers with spear and shield.Lena Headey, though - that might

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Ex-ETby Esma-MovieJust relax and enjoy...

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...until I saw what it was advertising:Rassa frassa Budweiser...Video posted on YouTube by darraghdoyle

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I was going to blog about how, last weekend, a maintenance exercise undertaken by my colleagues in the network team led to the non-functionality of a disaster recovery setup on my Storage Area Network, and the subsequent recovery of the situation in less than 15 minutes by a man who is nothing less than the equivalent of a living legend among IT engineers, whose input code to resolve the issue

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As Fred* will confirm, I've always been a fan of Sesame Street.Excuse me while I remove a fly that's crawling on Jo Whiley's face...Okay, that's better. Now where was I?Oh, right - Sesame Street. Every now and again, a guy in a trenchcoat and hat would try and sell Ernie things for a nickel, like an empty box, or air, etc., with varying degrees of success.His name is Lefty the Salesman, and one

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1947-2009

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Okay, the Cubs won 6 to 5, the beer's still gone.But it's nearly Friday and so far, no callouts...Today I got my new laptop with MS Vista on it, so my training course on Tuesday would not have been for nothing.It's smaller than the machine it replaced, with a whole raft of cool features that our IT Security Dept has seen fit to disable, so I'll have to be creative when it comes to personalising

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Haven't the energy...Watching Chicago WS vs Chicago Cubs on ESPN.5 to 5 in the bottom of the 9th, Cubs at bat.Beer gone...

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So I was supposed to go to this supplier roadshow in the Four Seasons Hotel this morning, but several team members had also expressed an interest so, as it was closer to their areas of expertise than mine, I elected to take a raincheck and hold down the fort with Ciaran and Tony.In truth, I didn't mind - it meant I didn't have to be up and out at 7:30am, something I hate.So I strolled into work

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No breakfast.But it's a nice day, which counts for something.My first job this morning was to investigate why half of a backup job failed twice the previous evening. It was localised to one particular server, so the application of some patches might prove effective.Tune in tomorrow...More backup maintenance - a client returned his backup request form with updated details of his requirements -

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...And I've gotta get out of here, I've gotta make everything clear...So today it was hard labour, moving half a ton of scrap-to-be down two floors to the basement, around the underground labyrinth before, like Sisyphus rolling his stone uphill, I had to push it up a 45 degree gradient to where the truck waited, at ground level.Unlike Sisyphus, I had help. So that was good.The rest of the morning

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So it appears I can post from work now?The excuses will be harder to come by...I'm going to try and keep a diary of my work week - apparently, from a health manual issued by the company's Occupational Health Dept last week, I show all the signs of being stressed out.I'm by no means unique in that - I want to make that abundantly clear - however it was a bit of an eye-opener seeing it in print in

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The lovely PJ over at The Urban Recluse has posted on how, if she were a musical scale, she would be classified as Aeolian (and all that that implies).I, on the other hand, would appear to be Dorian in nature - you know, annoys senior doctors and janitorial staff:"You tend to be a bit of a cynic, and perhaps a bit of an intellectual snob. You have a small group of friends, all of whom admire you,

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but also found this:I haven't heard a lot of Lily Allen's stuff, but I like this...Actually, the song I was looking for was 'Rhino Skin' by Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers, but one thing led to another on YouTube and the search went from there to Wilburys and then ELO and my favourite song.Anyhow, feel free to speak your minds - just remember, my vengeance is boundless, my wrath Khan-like, etc...

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I'd been ambivalent about seeing the new Star Trek movie, not because it was a J.J. Abrams picture, but more because of all the secrecy surrounding it.Y'know, less information than an episode of Lost.Bad Robot. Bad, bad robot...So I wasn't queueing up to see it on release day; I figured, I'll get to it. Anyway, I left work early on Thursday 7th and happened to be passing the cinema where a show

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I've been getting fed up with the state of things lately, from the economy to my job, to my so-called life and all the crap I've had to put up with from people lately.So I think either my mid-life crisis is kicking in (which is a real pisser, because I don't have anywhere to park a red sports car) or I've just woken up to be the bitter, cynical old man I've been growing into for the last five

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You know, I went to a football match the other day.Tottenham Hotspur were playing some other chaps, I don't remember who they were, but they were awfully good...Actually, it was Manchester Utd, at Old Trafford, with the lead pipe.My dad, my nephew and I tried our luck and went to another game last Saturday. The regular reader will know what we should have expected, and part of me was intrigued as

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I'd been away from my computer for several days and just checked in to get my email, only to find I'd been comment-spammed, in what appears to be Chinese, by someone called Ed.I got a whole bunch of comments, apparently links to websites, on April 6th.Comments may disappear for a time while I try to work out how to get rid of Ed's unwelcome contributions.Thank you and good afternoon...

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To football fans everywhere, to most of the 60,001* other people who attended the Ireland - Bulgaria World Cup Qualifier in Dublin last Saturday, and to Kevin Kilbane.Why?Well Fred, I'm glad you asked me that.Y'see, it's like this - on no occasion where I have been to a competitive senior football match, whether at club level or international, has the team I went to support emerged victorious.Not

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Regular readers (hello, Fred) may remember I mentioned I'd be visiting Milan with some friends back in December.Which I did.However, it's taken until now to distil the events of that weekend into something that was neither too brief"We went to Milan - it rained, the food was excellent, we came home..."nor too overdone"Bright was the sun and high our hearts as we set forth on yet another glorious

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So a guy goes to the doctor, he tells the doctor,"Doctor, I think I'm going deaf."The doctor examines him, does all the stuff like shining the little light in his ears, y'know, but doesn't find anything wrong.So he says to the guy,"Can you describe the symptoms?"The guy says"What did you say?"The doctor repeats, louder:"CAN YOU DESCRIBE THE SYMPTOMS?"And the guy thinks about it and says"Well,

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So I was sitting at my desk during the week, trying to finish a report, and happened to glance out my window at the street below.There was a guy in a bizarrely-bright yellow coat and blonde curly wig walking up and down with a sign pointing to a shop further down the street. But he was also wearing a sort of sandwich-board advert style of thing, upon which was written"Show your Valentine you love

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In between other things, however, I, like a sizable percentage of the world's population, also tuned in to see what will be remembered in years to come as a pivotal moment in history, as the Kennedy inauguration was for our parents (or grandparents, depending on how young you are).My colleagues and I struggled with the inadequacies of IE6 in an attempt to find a channel that would stream the

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I'm a reasonable man.I ask for no more than I need.I've waited patiently for over eight months for the second half of season 4 of Galactica, and avoided spoilers, trailers, commentary, etc., and it looked like everything was working out fine.Tonight, I sat down at 2059hrs and watched the first episode.Thrilling, shocking, poignant - words to be ascribed to the best in drama, and all of which

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Many of you out there will be waking up to the knowledge that the final season of Battlestar Galactica started on US TV last night.I trust the first episode was everything you hoped for and expected.However, like the incoming US Administration, Galactica doesn't begin here until next Tuesday, which leaves me in a dilemma - do I stream it off the web in advance, or hold out until Tuesday and watch

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Well, I am, as it happens, having account No. 6 at Forbidden Planet in Dublin.I always got a kick out of the fact that most of the staff there never seemed to know my name, and that the absence of any other such store in town effectively made me a 'Prisoner'.However, I see from the news that the original Number Six, Patrick McGoohan, has passed away at the age of 80, reportedly following a short

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"Why?"I hear you ask.Well, Fred, it's like this - today I bought a 40" Samsung LCD TV (on which I'm watching Doctor Who right now), two-and-a-half times the physical size of my old telly and about €400 less than I would have paid if I hadn't travelled north to Newry, Co. Down to buy it.There's a story there; a story of recession, of government panic, of the sudden death of the Celtic Tiger, of

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How do you solve a problem like Maria?Answers on a postcard to the Mother Superior, Benedictine Convent, Salzburg, Austria...

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I just got back from seeing 'The Spirit'.There was a matinee show at my local cinema, and I sat in an audience of about fifty people of ages ranging from 12 to about 70.It was interesting to note that the first people to walk out were three teenagers, followed shortly afterwards (and independently) by two senior citizens. Five more people left before the end, but one returned, so given an

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I'm going to see The Spirit this afternoon.I hope it's good.

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Even though 2008's going to last an extra second due to the slowing of the Earth's rotation (sorry about that, long story, tell you later maybe), I hope that 2009 is going to have been worth waiting for, for all of us.So to all of you, from all of me, have a very Happy New Year.And beware, evildoers, wherever you are...

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So I tried to buy a PlayStation 3 today.Shopped around, picked what I figured was the best deal I was gonna get without going to Northern Ireland (80GB PS3 with FIFA09 and Resistance 2 for €399.99), took a ticket from the display and got in line.When I reached the counter, the conversation went like this:Me (handing deal ticket to manager): I'd like a PS3, please.Manager (pointing to display): '

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Owing to the recent quite spectacular conjunction of some airborne virus and me (my own stupid fault - went out on patrol without an insulated helmet liner, and I don't need to tell you what that means 400 million miles from the Sun), I've been confined to the IncrediCave lately, having little or no contact with the outside world.Wouldn't ordinarily trouble me overmuch, but it is Christmas, after

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It appears that Gordon Ramsay has a new book on sale entitled "Cooking For Friends".How would he know?

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It's been a while - a lot of long days and some technical issues - but I'm back.For now, at least.This time next Friday I'll be heading to Milan for the weekend - the global recession meaning nothing to the annual IT Services Christmas Weekend.It's something we've done where I work for the last several years, and a slap in the overpriced face of the Irish tourist industry, but for one weekend in

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A young, charismatic President-Elect.An overwhelming electoral victory placing a Democrat from a hitherto-unelectable background in the most powerful office in the US.Dancing in the streets.It's like 1960 all over again.And he's even Irish - doesn't get better than that.Well done, America - thank you kindly.

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In just under two hours, polls begin to close in the easternmost states of the U.S., shortly after which we should begin to get some idea whether there will indeed be change in the White House, or four more years...My regular reader (you know who you are) will recall an earlier post in which I relayed a report suggesting Diebold inadvertently gave away the name of the winner in advance.It'd be

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Yep, I'm off to London tomorrow, for five days, into which I intend to cram a lot of culture.I haven't been to London in a few years, the last time being when I went to see an exhibition of the work of Edward Hopper, perhaps most noted for the piece 'Nighthawks', which was the centrepiece of the exhibit and my main reason for going.Other than spending the day at the Tate, I didn't do much that

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