Monthly Archives: November 2006

Christmas Card from TD in November

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 … Continue reading

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this day in music

thisdayinmusic.com 2001, former Beatle George Harrison died in Los Angeles of lung cancer aged 58. Tributes to George were made worldwide by The Queen, George Bush, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, George Martin and Oasis guitarist Noel Gallagher. ~ 5 years … Continue reading

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the pope, security, loyalty and opuim

Pope Benedict has told Turks that freedom of religion must be granted to all believers in order to secure their loyalty to society. And Turkeys don’t vote for Christmas (not a turkish pun like ‘killing an arab’ by the cure … Continue reading

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beta blogger not better blocker

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 … Continue reading

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tiz the season to win awards

a week last thursday I won the ‘best podcaster’ award in the IIA Netvisionary Awards 2006. Thanks you for your votes in what was a the first year there was a podcast & blog section, I was delighted to win…. … Continue reading

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You’re A Censor – RTE Late Late disruption

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 … Continue reading

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The Two Ronnies

ITV3+1=0 ~ why have a +1 when you can’t show it. 9pm 24/11/2006 so show us something else; or play some music or even my podcast…

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polonium-210 fingerprints

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. [anti-theft news … Continue reading

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doopy is dead viva habana

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 … Continue reading

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probably the best songwriter in the world

From outdoor if you think eleanor mcevoy and think “only a woman’s heart” its time you listened to her 6th studio album ‘Out There’. track by track podcasts are serialised on her myspace page myspace.eleanormcevoy.net x

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