Author Archives: Donncha

If LOTR was written by someone else..

What if Douglas Adams wrote Lord of the Rings? These extracts made me grin 🙂

Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of Eriador lies a small unregarded countryside.
In this land is an utterly insignificant little green town whose men-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think smoking is a pretty neat idea.

iRiver H320/H340 – personal music player

Now, this looks like a nice music player. dpreview has a concise feature list. As well as mp3 files it also plays ogg files, and it can display jpegs, and I could plug my camera into it and it’ll make coffee while I watch tv (no, only joking about the last bit!)
It’s not out yet AFAICT but I might be able to afford one in a few months time if reviews prove positive!
Later… ipodyourbmw.com – Owen mentioned this last night, I’d forgotten it, but Stewie reminded me a few minutes ago. And the The Register has more in a slightly easier format to read.

Are you still going to the pub?

On the day that publicans report a 7m pint drop in beverage consumption, I see that Will was in Galway at the weekend and had a great time!

The pubs were packed, but on the summer’s day, the streets were packed with the over spill, all chatting away.
It’s the smoking ban that did it!
Before, the pubs would be packed, and the merriment would all be out of sight behind darkened doors.

Don’t they know the customer is always right? A vast majority of Irish people don’t smoke, it’s the price of the pint that’s driving people away!

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