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Aidan Staunton, a renowned Cork artist, is showing a collection of his paintings in the Cork Vision Centre for the next two weeks. This is what Whazon.com says about him:

Images of Cork City and Ireland West.

A visually striking exhibition by Cork based artist Aidan Staunton. The exhibition consists of oils and watercolours. This is his seventh solo exhibition.

He is inspired by old Cork City scenes and the rugged landscape of the West of Ireland.

In his exhibitions he records both places and changes that have occurred in cork over the past few years. His paintings range from the urban images of cork city, through to the rural aspects of the West of Ireland.

This exhibition will run from 30th June –15th July 2004

The Cork Vision Centre @ St. Peter’s is open from Tuesday-Saturday from 10am-5pm.

I attended the opening of the exhibition last night and his paintings are breath-taking. If I had some spare cash I’d buy “Looking Down St. Patrick’s Hill”, or “Fitzgerald’s Park Fountain” to adorn the living room at home!

Over the weekend I moved from Vodafone to Meteor and also upgraded to a Nokia 6600 at the same time. Nice phone, this review is reasonably favourable, although he mentions that battery life is very bad (no surprise there!) and he commented on the 20MB of the memory card that was taken up by “undeletable” applications. They’re very deletable when you format the memory card! 🙂 Opera was deleted when I did that but I don’t have any use for mobile browsing, regular phone charges are expensive enough!
On that subject, I selected the “Meteor 200” plan. For €40 a month I can make 200 minutes of calls. That’s 20¢ a minute. Last month I talked on the phone for 3 hours and it cost me twice that. Fingers crossed that my phone bill goes down.

I’ll test the Gnome Bluetooth/Bluez stuff on Fedora Core 2 at home later, I don’t know if I’m going to go to the trouble of getting Bluez/Orbix working myself. p3nfs, Gnokii and Gammu seem to be other options. p3nfs worked fine before so even if I have to use the Nokia Suite to copy it over I’ll be able to copy .sis files over for later installation. Gnokii has been tested on the 6600 but it looks like there could be problems with it still.

It seems to be almost impossible to find a decent midi version of new zealand story. I found a few mp3 versions but none of them were up to scratch. Maybe I need to find a sid player/plugin for my phone? I did find a few cool music sites, including ocremix. Will visit later, but the version of NZS there isn’t great and seems to worble out of tune!

Just as I was writing this I received a text to my phone.. “A picture is worht a thousand words! Capture the moment with Vodafone picture messaging – NOW just 25¢! To opt out call 1800200234”
I could just ring that number and complain but I’m not a Vodafone customer anymore, why did they spam me? Stewie on #linux says I need to contact regtel. Fire up Google and find them methinks.

Zimram was right. Cory Doctorow makes a discussion on DRM “accessible and interesting”!
Well worth a read.

Some of the Irish protested. The troops and Gardai prepared to protect him at great monetary cost to the Irish public.(No, I don’t want to see him murdered, and yes, there are loonies everywhere!) Bush was interviewed on Irish TV and rejected the “idea that the world was less safe because of US policy in Iraq” even though AFAIK terrorist activity increased in 2003.
Cal Thomas appeared on TodayFM last night and was so full of b*llsh*t I couldn’t believe it. He left a terrible impression of his views by dodging the main point of an article he wrote several weeks ago – that Irish protesters had to pay to protest against Bush. They were paying to go to a protest concert featuring many commercially successful artists in a large venue in Dublin.
Newt Gingrich was on Radio 1 yesterday morning and he came across as a much more intelligent, eloguent speaker, as he must do considering his job!

We all had to write essays in school and college and some of us continue writing afterwards, and what’s more amazing, people read what we write!
Besides my usual distracted style of prose there are valid ways of writing and this article lists and explains some of them.
“I must read this later”, “I must read this later”, “I must read this later”, “I must read this later”.. (hehe, copy and paste would have been handy in school!)

There’s some great stories on monkeybicycle.net
I like the Irish man vs English man one! Not the ending you’d imagine!

Slate reads My Life so you don’t have to. – I dare you to read through without searching for “monica” and skipping ahead!

On “I Didn’t Inhale”

Page 405: “Maybe I thought I was being funny.”

Whores

COURIC: Well, I don’t want to get into this too much, but certainly with the reported Saddam Hussein, 9/11, al-Qaeda connection and some of the other intelligence information that the press was given…

Mr. MOORE: We–I’m–I’m–my film is a–is a silent plea to all of you in the news media to do your job. We need you. You–we–you’re our defense against this. If–if we don’t have you, what do we have? And I just think a disservice was done to the American people. You know–you know what’s great about this country? You and everyone else here gets to ask any question you want. Literally, you can ask any question you want. No one can stop you. You…

Unfairenheit 9/11 – The lies of Michael Moore. By Christopher Hitchens

To describe this film as dishonest and demagogic would almost be to promote those terms to the level of respectability.
Osama is suddenly so guilty and so all-powerful that any other discussion of any other topic is a dangerous “distraction” from the fight against him. I believe that I understand the convenience of this late conversion.

Who do you believe? I don’t know.

Later… Michael Moore responds. Excellent! Thanks Kevin for the link.

The Web I think shows what images people are watching on Yahoo. Interesting. Topical images too!

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.