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Keane’s back, according to this post to the ILUG social list, but I can’t find anything on the mainstream news sites yet.

The fallout from the expulsion of Roy Keane continues, Peoples Republic of Cork offers counseling for World Cup 2002 Victims. Warning! This page includes harrowing scenes of Cork people suffering and in distress.

John looked it up, and found out the mickmaccarthyisawanker.com is still available..

Gerry Ryan’s show took a text-poll this morning, “Was Mick McCarthy right to send Roy home?” 70% answered “No”. I voted “No” as well.

Ode to Roy

This is a tale of the man called Roy,
And how he filled our hearts with joy,
Until the wankers in the FAI
Booked a pitch that was completely dry.

A muscle tightened and a tendon stretched,
Roy was livid, and the lads said ‘Sketch!’
Roy said “All credit to me at the end of the day,
Me go in goal? No fuckin’ way!”

Roy had a go at Bonner and Kelly,
Coz while the team was training, the keepers watched telly.
There’d been bust-ups before, this wasn’t the first,
Meanwhile the players were dying of thirst.

Cos the FAI made a deal for some energy drink,
But they forgot to bring it, so what did Roy think?
“You’re some langer!” he screamed at Mick,
While Duff explained to Jason that ‘langer’ meant ‘prick’.

So Roy packed his bags and went to bed,
To rest all the blood that rushed to his head.
He said he’d go home, but would he really?
Meanwhile Mick had called up Colin Healy.

“We need you Colin, pack your bag,
You’re in the squad coz Roy lost the rag.”
Roy rang Alex, who was at home in his gaff,
And Alex said “Roy, you’re havin’ a laugh!”

“You’re at the World Cup, the centre stage,
Put a cork in your murderous rage!”
So Roy changed his mind and decided to stay,
And told Mick it’s cool, he just had a bad day.

The next day Roy told his story in the papers,
But Mick had enough of his captain’s capers
He called a meeting, and Jason got lost,
And Roy was asked to explain to the boss.

What it was that was getting him down,
Roy’s vein popped out, and he made that frown.
“Obviously as I said like, at the end of the day,
I am the captain and I want my own way.”

“I want keepers to train, and I want a decent pitch,
And a decent manager, you son-of-a-bitch!”
Quinner, Kelly and Stan stood up tall,
And said “Roy, you’re not the only one who can kick a ball!”

“And Roy said “I know, Duff can play too,
And other Keane and Reid, but Christ look at you!
You’re has-beens, you’re muppets who can’t take the heat,
And Quinn you can head, but did you know you have feet?!”

Mick said “That’s it, you’re taking the piss”,
As Jason arrived and said “What did I miss?”
Roy was not welcome, and told to go home,
And in true FAI style, they got RyanAir on the phone.

There weren’t any flights until the next day,
So Roy went to bed while the whole country prayed.
Please help us Jebus, Bertie and the Pope,
Because without Roy in Japan, we haven’t a hope.

XBox links:
Xbox Economics – Mark reminded me of this article I saw linked from winterspeak a few days ago.
The Register has more on a similar vein.

From Scripting.com: The New Economy
Why I love pop-up ads
Beating Bill

I post because I will get around to reading everything, eventually. Just like that big stack of books at home. I’m off home. Don’t forget to turn off the light.

I have a totally table-free template done for this blog, I tried it on a test blog and it got screwed up royally. Back to the drawing board and more testing.
Still, I learned a lot about CSS positioning, and about the differences between Mozilla and MSIE (it displays properly in Mozilla, no apologies, MSIE just plain ignored a black border around my new logo.. *grrr*) Of course, Mozilla doesn’t respect the ‘transparent’ setting of background-color properly. It’ll use the document background, not the colour of the div behind it. More work to be done.

The election is over, FIanna Fail get in again, Fianna Gael are facing their biggest defeat in years. Sinn Fein have a few seats. Labour didn’t do too well. It’ll probably be a Fianna Fail, Progressive Democrats government.

Good news and bad news!
Flor Griffin are going to replace my camcorder, I’ll call in tomorrow and pick up a new one. Hopefully this one won’t display any artifects. (thanks Mark!)
RSI is worse than ever this morning, pain is shooting up my arm. I really need that holiday!

The Irish General Election is on today. My dad’s working at the polling booth in our local area. They’re open from 7.30am to 10.30pm – I’m voting later.

If you use Galeon to attempt to register on hotmail.com you get this nice informative message:

Microsoft® .NET Passport no longer supports the Web browser version you are using. Please upgrade to a current Web browser, such as Microsoft Internet Explorer version 4.0 or later, or Netscape Navigator version 4.08 or later.

I just wanted to see how fast it would take the spammers to discover that address. *shrug*

Woo! I used a spreadsheet to do something useful for the first time in my life! It wasn’t Excel either, but Open Office, running in Linux. Don’t be too smug though, I have never had or usually have a use for a spreadsheet in my use of computers.
No, I’m not going to reveal what I used it for, it was a rather simple operation!

Damn, I’m on to my third keyboard in as many years. Water does strange things to them and you can’t just unplug PS/2 keyboards and plug another in. Uptime of 103 days too. *sob*