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Dave, I must read your blog more often!
Your post about Yahoo gave me pause for thought. I tried a search for xeer c64 on Yahoo and Google and I knew they should return links to my old homepage on Geocities. Both did, but I couldn’t discern any bias on Yahoo from this simple search. If there is one, I’m going to update my old site with new links straight away!
That Tab Browser Extension is nice. Well worth installing!

While in Chicago I used to record The Last Word to my PC using Mplayer, and listen to Radio 1 in “realtime” over the Internet. Well, I did this until I got bored of hearing the same news on each channel, except on a Friday when the 6-7pm slot on TodayFM went all sporty, and I’d listen to Radio 1.
Justin found a guy who’s recording radio using a voice-codec that encodes at 16Kbps. That would have been handy in the US!
What I should have recorded of course is:

• The Full Irish on 2FM in the morning.
• Marian Finucan on Radio 1 from 9am to 10am.
• Ray D’Arcy on TodayFM
• The 1pm news on Radio 1
• TodayFM from 2pm onwards
• Joe Duffy’s show on Radio 1 at 2pm would be more interesting as I could fast-forward through it!

Maybe next time I’m over I’ll do that!

Russell explains one of the adverts I was puzzled about over in Chicago. A guy walked around the country with a mobile phone asking, “Can you hear me now? Good…”
The ad always annoyed me but now it makes sense.. the mobile networks in the US are in such a bad way that networks boast if they have good coverage! Remember when Eircell, and then Esat did the same so many years ago?

I gave my neighbour a lift into town this morning and found out that his son is an aeronautical engineer in Germany working for Airbus! I knew he was in Germany but not what he was doing but it seems that he’s working on the Airbus A380!
Looks like that particular plane won’t be flying into Ireland any time soon however, it’s a monster of a machine!

I wonder what Ryan Tubridy, a self proclaimed Beatles fan, will think of the Grey Album?
It’s a remix of the Beatles White Album and Jay-Z’s Black Album.
Somehow I think he’d be rolling in his proverbial grave if he heard about it! Personally, it’s not to my taste but I did find “99 Problems” entertaining! 🙂

Hmm, here’s a slightly outdated list of Irish blogs. It’s missing all but one of the blogs hosted here, and my own blog is listed at the old site. Still, found an interesting blog by an American in Cork!
And here’s a blog that syndicates lots of Irish blogs, including this one!

Wow! Hailstone shower outside.. I am not going out to Blarney to put up that damn boundary fence tonight.

Yay! It’s snowing outside! Woo! It snowed this morning too, and it was beautiful to look out onto the garden and see the flakes drop slowly to the grass.
Ireland’s weird that way. We go through a mostly mild and wet winter and snow falls in Spring!
Now I’m at work, despite the fact that I sit right next to a window, I found out from the Internet that it’s snowing right outside.. Thanks Christian for the heads up! *grin*

That’s all Owen!

Jeremy’s contemplating the purchase of a robotic vacuum cleaner called Roomba. I wonder if you can buy these things in Ireland? heh.
Looks like it’s not all there yet but it I’d love to give it a go. Anyone want to buy me a house warming present? 😉

Archbishop Desmond Tutu is in Ireland for a major conference on AIDS this week. There’s been a huge increase in the number of cases in Russia and elsewhere in Europe and Asia and delegates from 55 countries are meeting to discuss this.
Desmond Tutu was just interviewed by Marian Finucane this morning and it’s the first time I’ve heard him interviewed at length. Wow. What an eloquent speaker! He’s had a varied life, and the interview was a reminder of the the horror of Apartheid. The contrast between South Africa and Europe couldn’t be greater, he recounted his experiences in London, where Bobbies on the beat called him and his wife, “Sir”, and “Madam”, and Cape Town where a curfu for blacks meant he couldn’t walk on the street at night!