Christmas Card from TD in November
Thursday, November 30th, 2006
I got our first Xmas card today. Its from a Dublin North East TD. The self confessed third socialist in the Dail, himself, Martin Brady sent in the earliest xmas card. Martin is not used to been early, he turned up 10 minutes late on the radio, 10 minutes into a panel debate he was supposed to be in, he then tried to leave VERY early.. the account was blogged here on june 1st 2006.
Martin Brady TD was also on the show, at one stage he tried to escape the studio [18:40sec], as the debate got too heated (not with me I might add). hear the shows presenter plead with Martin to stay, here.
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I moved a less used blog from plain old blogger to beta blogger,. Fine, I’ll check out the functions later, in doing so, the blogger account comes in under the wing of a new or existing google account, I choose existing.
a week last thursday I won the ‘best podcaster’ award in the 
security at the late late show was penetrated when a man got to walk on to the studio floor during live transmission of Fridays chat show and stand face to face with the seated host. Without the safety net of a 10 second delay the live TV audience got to hear the man complain about censorship and heard him utter a few profanities at the host Pat Kenny and the previous host Gay Byrne. 
CNN reports ~ A former Russian spy who died Thursday in London was poisoned by radiation, Britain’s Health Protection Agency said, and experts are searching for “residual radioactive material” at a number of locations he may have visited.
after a short illness the doop server died gracefully [or not so] on monday morning at 09.10am. doopy started out life as a PC and was re-specked to be a web server. It out lived its use by date and to think its twin 60GB hard disks hold as much as an old iPod now. doopy as it became known was first called cuba but the doopy name stuck. It served doopdesign well, at its peak it had 260 accounts 80+ domains 1000 seat realaudio and served our 60 hosted clients well. In August we began moving out clients to doopy’s (ne cuba) replacement a 2U dell raid-10 server called habana (doopy2) and by Monday 9am all but 10% remained. Mail lists clients were last to move and monday night was the time scheduled to move them, but back ups on habana were required as doopy fried with monday a.m. traffic. thanks to the dooponians and dojo admins for the helping hand in the busiest week Ive had since ever. Thanks to other admins that remain nameless and the staff at blacknight for their service and support. doop choose blacknight for colo, coz they are really nice people on top of everything else. now if C&W would only callback I would be chuffed. it seems a colo cancellation is not big deal to C&W but when I got two calls within 15 mins from belfast about cancellation of ‘fibre’ in coolock i knew they crossed their cables again. oops nearly forgot, thanks to rory & mark in nevada for all the hands eyes and help over the years…… viva habana
