Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
At 2.20 am, ninety-six years ago, the Titanic sank.
Since then, it's been pretty much public knowledge that Northern Ireland make a big deal out of crap.
I mean, look at George Best. His feet had more action off the field than on it, even when he was sober enough to stand, ...
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Friday, April 4th, 2008
Diamond Dan
A pathetic attempt by the Orange Order to increase visibility and relevancy.
Rather than paying for the commission of a comic book character they could have started policing their own people and weeding out the bigots and louts. As I said last year:
As a Catholic who attended the celebrations on ...
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
HiveLogic on getting into The Zone in modern offices:"There’s no choice about how or when you’re expected produce, or under what circumstances. Here is your computer, here is your workstation, you have the tools, the florescent lights are turned on, why don’t you go ahead and get to work, ...
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Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
We've nearly been there for just over two months and I can think of no downsides. At the moment, the commute from Bangor takes about twenty minutes (leaving the house at 7 am) and the commute home takes about forty minutes (leaving at 4:20 pm). In short my commute time ...
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Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
One thing that is nice about John Dvorak is that he truly has a visionary streak. In all the years I've read about technology, Dvorak has seldom been right. He's managed to cherry-pick the absolutely wrong from the blatantly obvious for years. That has to count for something.
The rant this ...
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Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
“self-funded small business that encourages people to stay away from the VCs, says you don’t need to live in San Francisco to be successful, suggests that charging for your products is a good thing, espouses the advantages of small teams, applauds shorter work weeks with more reasonable hours, rejects the ...
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Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007
It's an airy 4 bedroom house with a large living room and a dining room. Decent grounds. External garage. Gas central heating. Double-glazed throughout. Only 3 miles from Belfast City Centre and up on a hill just in case Al Gore is right and the sea is going to rise ...
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