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Happy Birthday Ruairi and welcome to blogging!

Of course there’s no problem! I did a lot of driving at the weekend, up to Dungarvan, to Clonmel and then back to Cork. I was passed several times by cars doing 70-80mph. Twice those cars were BMWs, the other time it was something similar to a Punto, driven by a boy racer who passed me just after I overtook another car, on a narrow road outside Cahir!
It is true that 50 people are alive today who would be dead if the Penalty Points weren’t introduced, but the Gardai need something better than “Pulse” to deal with the paperwork. Otherwise they’ll be ignored.

The Onion reports on the life of an undercover cop. (not for the humour impaired!)

Mel’s Homepage – Under Construction – woo! 🙂

Cam’s back – hope you had a good time!

I found most of the content of my old website, DemoNix buried inside in tarballs on backup CDs scattered around my room! I should be able to merge all the content in over the next few days!

And of course the Commodore 64 is mentioned in this /. article!

The Weblog Player scans weblogs.com and displays the most recently updated blogs using a Java applet to control it. This is going to popup on plenty of referer logs over the next while.

On my way to work this morning I managed to avoid most of the heavy traffic but eventually I got caught as I approached Victoria Cross. I usually come off College Rd on to Orchard Rd and then down to Victoria Cross. Unfortunately traffic is usually heavy at the junction of Orchard Rd and Victoria Cross. Today was no exception. As I waited at the junction, looking left and right I noticed a Flo Gas truck down the road with a large space in front of it and thought, “hmm, maybe if he goes forward I can get in behind him..”, but no, he wasn’t moving because a container truck on the inside lane was too large to overtake safely.

I continued to look left and right when suddenly out of the corner of my eye as I turned right I spotted a car plough straight into the Flo Gas truck! I can still see the back of the car raise itself up off the ground, see flying specks of paint and plastic, and hear the sound of the car crumpling under the impact.

Shocked, I watched for a few seconds before remembering my camera, grabbed it out of it’s bag and turned it on to find a full memory card, a quick change of the memory card later and I snapped a few photos of this unfortunate accident. Nobody was hurt, both drivers got out of their cars and a Garda was on the scene within moments.

A Long ago I stopped trying to make everything perfect. I think it happened when I realised that “good enough” really was good enough! Occasionally I will spend an extra ordinary amount of time trying to get some small facet of a program working just perfectly, but that’s common in every endevour. It’s so true that 20% of the work takes 80% of the time..